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From: mp@mit-eddie.UUCP (Mark Plotnick)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Reducing net abuse.
Message-ID: <720@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Sep-83 18:23:13 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 15 18:23:13 1983
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These suggestions are getting a little bizarre, aren't they?  I've
found the main cause of net abuse is that the users don't bother to
read the netnews documentation before plunging in.  I posted a pointer
to the documentation, network map, list of active newsgroups, etc., as
article 1 in newsgroup general (which never expires), and this seems to
help the problem a little.  [There will always be twits, though; the
major netnews submittor at our site has yet to read even the netnews
man page.  Sigh.]  Perhaps we need an extremely short condensation of
"How To Read the Network News" and the netiquette article, for all the
lazy impatient people around.