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From: avolio@grendel.UUCP (Frederick M. Avolio)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Instructions for net.general
Message-ID: <424@grendel.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 2-Feb-85 10:59:32 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  2 10:59:32 1985
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alcmist@uw-beaver writes:
> ...  I seriously think there are many people who don't read
> net.announce.newusers *because they don't know it exists!*
> ...
> I'm thinking of casual users at sites with old software and careless
> administrators.  They start by typing readnews with no arguments, and
> never see any group but net.general...

As news administrators know (from installing the software),  the  news
software  has  built  in the ability to specify "mandatory" groups and
"default" news groups. net.announce (including the sub-group newusers)
is one of those set as "mandatory" in the software distribution.  But,
there is no way to force site administrators to leave  this  there  so
that all new users will see net.announce.newuser.
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Fred Avolio      {decvax,seismo}!grendel!avolio      301/731-4100 x4227