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From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.adm
Subject: Re: New users
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Date: Thu, 3-Apr-86 09:45:43 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr  3 09:45:43 1986
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+ My first experience with net.flame-age occurred when I (innocently) posted
+ a "followup" to (horrors!) net.general.  We were a new site then. . .
+ Two weeks *AFTER* this incident, we received the periodic posting of
+ net.announce.newusers articles, including the one explaining that one does
+ NOT followup to net.general. . .
+ 
+ I have a small suggestion. . .(Well, actually, it's *two* suggestions.)
+ 	1) Include the net.announce.newusers articles, *all* of them, with
+ 	   each news distribution. . .
+ 	2) Re-order the groups in /usr/lib/news/active. . .and place
+ 	   net.announce.newusers FIRST!. . .

Me, I'd be a bit more draconian:  I'd set things up so that the date on which
someone first read news was recorded, then checked when someone sought to
post an item to a "net" group.  Attempted postings within (insert your choice
of time interval here) would be rejected.
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