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From: arromdee@crabcake.cs.jhu.edu (Kenneth Arromdee)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: news.announce.newusers (was Re: Reader polls)
Message-ID: <353@crabcake>
Date: 10 Nov 89 17:17:18 GMT
References: <8911091544.AA21726@thep.lu.se> <1989Nov9.191236.23264@agate.berkeley.edu> <351@crabcake> <110@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Reply-To: arromdee@crabcake.cs.jhu.edu (Kenneth Arromdee)
Organization: Johns Hopkins University CS Dept.
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In article <110@toaster.SFSU.EDU> eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes:
>>How is a new user supposed to even learn of the EXISTENCE of those
>>news.announce.newusers articles in the first place?  (given that many sites
>>expire them at a rate more frequent than they arrive)
>Each article in n.a.n carries an explicit 3-month expiration to
>exempt it from the normal system expiration, and a Supersedes:
>header to expire-on-demand the previous edition.  Any news
>administrator who overrides this (and this takes special effort),
>is, IMHO, not merely incompetent, but malicious.  ...

I just logged onto jhunix and read news.  No articles in
news.announce.newusers.

It _does_ happen.
--
"The workers ceased to be afraid of the bosses.  It's as if they suddenly
 threw off their chains." -- a Soviet journalist, about the Donruss coal strike

Kenneth Arromdee (UUCP: ....!jhunix!arromdee; BITNET: arromdee@jhuvm;
     INTERNET: arromdee@crabcake.cs.jhu.edu)