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From: spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Re: News.announce.newuser seems to be empty
Message-ID: <4781@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
Date: 3 Sep 88 16:58:11 GMT
References: <1062@cfa214.cfa250.harvard.edu> <3720009@eecs.nwu.edu> <875@ccnysci.UUCP>
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In article <875@ccnysci.UUCP> dan@ccnysci.UUCP (Dan Schlitt) writes:
>In article <3720009@eecs.nwu.edu> gore@eecs.nwu.edu (Jacob Gore) writes:
>>.... news.announce.newusers 
>>.... the "changes to ..." articles not be posted there.  
>
>This is a good idea.  
>For systems with disk space problems the reduced amount in the news
>group might permit a longer expiration for that group.

Well, lots of people seem to like to see the "diffs".  Can you 
suggest another group for me to post them to?  Maybe I should create
a news.announce.oldusers?  

Seriously, if there is reasonable support for posting the diffs to
a different group, I will do that.  Until then...

-- 
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