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From: rec@elf115.uu.net (Roger Critchlow)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Enough is enough
Summary: Summarize commonly flamed questions.  One question per article.
Message-ID: <183@elf115.uu.net>
Date: 21 Aug 89 14:35:22 GMT
References: <15113@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <6457@ux.cs.man.ac.uk>
Organization: ELF, Sea Cliff, NY
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In article <6457@ux.cs.man.ac.uk>, dente@els.uucp (Colin Dente) writes:
> At the moment, I'm archiving every posting to this group in order to
> compile the 'list of commonly asked questions' at some time in the
> future.  Of the 76 articles in my archive, 17 are about .signature
> files, and a high proportion of them are flames.  THIS IS ENOUGH.
> 
Given that certain flame wars seem almost as regular as the phases
of the moon, a 'list of commonly flamed questions' might be appro-
priate, too.  The battle of .sig didn't start here and it won't end
here.  And there are other recurrent hostilities which new users could
be warned away from.

BTW, the usual 'commonly asked' article format is well intentioned
but seems more intended for hard copy perusal than USENET.  Why not
post each commonly asked question with answer as a separate article
on a rotating schedule so that each article gets renewed every few
weeks?  Then new users could scan for their burning question with
their newsreader rather than eye-grepping through the usual non-
digest format digest which these tips usually arrive in.

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