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From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers
Subject: Changes to Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
Message-ID: <3736@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
Date: 3 Apr 88 23:45:39 GMT
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Organization: Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ.
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This posting contains a listing of differences between the version of 
the article (referenced in the "Subject:" line) just posted to this
group, and the version posted a few weeks ago.  New users may ignore
this posting -- it is intended to enable experienced users
to track changes to the regularly posted Usenet documents.

*** old/questions.n	Tue Mar  1 20:19:03 1988
--- src/questions.n	Sun Mar 27 21:53:34 1988
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*** 5,7
  Original-from: jerry@eagle.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz)
! [Most recent change: 7 February 1988 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
  

--- 5,8 -----
  Original-from: jerry@eagle.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz)
! [Most recent change: 27 March 1988 by bert@aiva.edinburgh.ac.uk (Bert Hutchings),
! 	wisner@eddie.mit.edu (Bill Wisner) & spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
  
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*** 96,98
       are usually system-dependent and it does no good to ask the
!      met-at-large what they are.
  

--- 97,99 -----
       are usually system-dependent and it does no good to ask the
!      net-at-large what they are.
  
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*** 316
       For more information send your US mail address to usenix!uunet-request.

--- 317,355 -----
       For more information send your US mail address to usenix!uunet-request.
+ 
+ 27.  Isn't the posting mechanism broken?  When I post an article to both
+      a moderated group and unmoderated groups, it gets mailed to the
+      moderator and not posted to the unmoderated groups.
+ 
+      This is a question that is debated every few months.  The answer
+      is "No, it was designed to work that way."  The software is
+      designed so that the moderator can crosspost the article so it
+      appears in the regular groups as well as the moderated group, if
+      appropriate.  If the article were to be posted immediately to the
+      unmoderated groups, the moderated group name would have to be
+      deleted from the header and you would lose the crossposting.
+ 
+      Whether or not this is correct behavior is a matter of opinion.
+      If you want your article to go out immediately to the unmoderated
+      groups, post it twice -- once to the unmoderated groups and once
+      to the moderated groups.
+ 
+ 28.  comp.arch and elsewhere:  What do FYI and IMHO mean?
+ 
+      Those are abbreviations for common phrases.  FYI is "For Your
+      Information" and IMHO is "In My Humble Opinion."
+ 
+ 27.  Would someone repost {large software distribution}?
+ 
+      This question should never be posted unless you are reporting a
+      widespread problem in article propagation. Lamentably, there ARE
+      occasional glitches in article transport. Large source or binary
+      postings, by their sheer size, are an inviting target.
+ 
+      If the problem is isolated, it is much better to take it upon
+      yourself to obtain the bad portions of the program than to ask
+      thousands of sites to spend thousands of dollars to needlessly
+      move several hundred kilobytes of code. There are archive sites
+      around the net that make most source/binary newsgroups available
+      via anonymous FTP and UUCP. If you get desperate, you can always
+      mail the author a blank disk or magnetic tape with provisions for
+      return postage.
-- 
Gene Spafford
NSF/Purdue/U of Florida  Software Engineering Research Center,
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
Internet:  spaf@cs.purdue.edu	uucp:	...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf