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From: spaf@uther.cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.misc
Subject: Diffs to news.announce.newusers postings
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Date: 15 Dec 87 18:44:41 GMT
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Every few weeks I post articles to news.announce.newusers describing
some history and useful information for users.  Traditionally, I have
also posted "diff" listings of some of these postings so that long-time
users could tell when changes occurred and what those changes entailed.

Recently, a couple of people have complained about my posting the diffs.
I asked for mailed feedback.  I got 11 responses:

	4 said to stop posting the diffs to news.announce.newusers
	3 said to keep posting the diffs to news.announce.newusers
	1 suggested I post the diffs to a different group
	1 suggested a different format for the diffs, but keep
		them in news.announce.newusers
	1 person liked the diffs, but I couldn't tell from his
		response exactly what he recommended.

Thus, due to the overwhelming feedback received, I'm going to continue
as before. :-)
-- 
Gene Spafford
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
Internet:  spaf@cs.purdue.edu	uucp:	...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf