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From: mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: several questions
Message-ID: <47001@bbn.COM>
Date: 16 Oct 89 22:27:49 GMT
References: <5818@tank.uchicago.edu> <46929@bbn.COM>
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Reply-To: mesard@BBN.COM (Wayne Mesard)
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It has been pointed out to me today by several helpful soles that I was 
clearly impolite and possibly inaccurate in <46929@bbn.COM>.

I was bugged because I read a dozen messages in a row that made me feel
like n.n.q is becoming the source of first resort for inquiring minds.
But my message was way too obnoxious.  A simple pointer to
news.announce.newusers, "h" in RN and man pages would have been more
appropriate.  So I would like to take this opportunity to apologize to
the net.community and to Harel (the original poster).  [Don't worry, I
probably won't kill myself.]

I wrote:
>harelb@arthur.UUCP (Harel Barzilai) writes:
>>Distribution: na
>
>Mild news flame: Usenet .GT. North America.  Please use a "world"
>distribution and let each site decide if they want to receive your
>article or not.

The last time this discussion went around, I thought the result was
that the European folks would prefer to get everything posted to a group
(unless the content was clearly of interest only to locals; e.g. an
announcement about the annual New England Snodgrass Festival in
rec.food.snodgrass could get a "ne" regional distribution).  But a
couple of people sent me mail disagreeing.

Follow-ups to news.misc.  If there's an interesting discussion there,
I'll post a summary here after there's a consensus.