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From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Changes to A Primer on How to Work With the Usenet Community
Message-ID: <7424@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
Date: 22 Jul 89 04:14:34 GMT
Expires: 20 Oct 89 04:14:34 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ.
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Supersedes: <6967@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>

This posting contains a listing of differences between the version of
the article (referenced in the "Subject:" line) just posted to the
news.announce.newusers group, and the version posted a few weeks ago.
It is intended to enable experienced users to track changes to the
regularly posted Usenet documents.

*** /tmp/fo16118	Fri Jul 21 23:12:29 1989
--- /tmp/fo26118	Fri Jul 21 23:12:29 1989
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*** 5,7
  Original-from: chuq@sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
! [Most recent change: 19 June 1989 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
  

--- 5,7 -----
  Original-from: chuq@sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
! [Most recent change: 21 Jul 1989 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
  
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*** 294,295
  
  

--- 294,296 -----
  
+ 			Limit Line Length and Avoid Control Characters
  
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*** 295,296
  
                          Summary of Things to Remember

--- 296,309 -----
  
+   Try to keep your text in a generic format.  Many (if not most) of
+   the people reading Usenet do so from 80 column terminals or from 
+   workstations with 80 column terminal windows.  Try to keep your
+   lines of text to less than 80 characters for optimal readability.
+   Also realize that there are many, many different forms of terminals
+   in use.  If you enter special control characters in your message, it
+   may result in your message being unreadable on some terminal types;
+   a character sequence that causes reverse video on your screen may
+   result in a keyboard lock and graphics mode on someone else's
+   terminal.
+ 
+ 
                          Summary of Things to Remember
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*** 317,319
         Don't overdo signatures
! 
  

--- 330,332 -----
         Don't overdo signatures
!        Limit line length and avoid control characters
  
-- 
Gene Spafford
NSF/Purdue/U of Florida  Software Engineering Research Center,
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
Internet:  spaf@cs.purdue.edu	uucp:	...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf