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From: alb@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: netiquette and net.newuser
Message-ID: <2216@alice.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Sep-83 21:28:48 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 15 21:28:48 1983
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You seem to miss the point.  Even if the article were to be posted
to a separate group, it would still expire, so newcomers would miss
it.  If it were posted with a long expiration date, then putting it
in net.announce would NOT result in what you say (bogging down the
new user with many articles), since articles that weren't important
would expire and those that were important wouldn't.  The point is
that net.announce is supposed to contain only articles of interest
to all users, newcomers as well, and as such should be read by
everyone.  That is clearly where this article belongs.

Adam