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From: paul@devon.UUCP (Paul Sutcliffe Jr.)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Regular postings (was: Re: News.announce.newuser seems to be empty)
Summary: Separating diff postings from the full articles
Message-ID: <866@devon.UUCP>
Date: 12 Sep 88 16:53:06 GMT
References: <10219@s.ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: paul@devon.UUCP (Paul Sutcliffe Jr.)
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In article <10219@s.ms.uky.edu> david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron) writes:
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| I want to join the chorus of people saying that we need to continue to
| have the [Newuser] Postings Posted.  However maybe some changes are in
| order.
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I, too, feel that the Newuser postings are A Good Thing.  I'm not sure
I approve of David's idea to crosspost them to lots of misc. groups,
though.  I think that more sites should accept the responsibility of
carrying netnews -- that its users need to be taught proper netiquette
before posting, and that guidelines can be found in the *.newuser group.

But this is the reason for my following-up to this article:

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| Someone asked why post diff's all the time.  Wee-eell, I can't speak
| for others, but I like seeing the diff's so that I have some idea
| of the recent changes -- like, new newsgroups & mailing lists & the like.
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As an experienced news reader (~3 years now), I feel that I no longer
should have to read the *.newuser group.  However, I still subscribe
to it so that I can catch the "diffs" postings.  I, like David, like
to quickly see the changes in the newsgroups, mailing lists and the
like.  I think that Spaf (jokingly) mentioned creating a new group
called "news.announce.olduser" to be the home of the diff postings.
I *like* this idea (even the name)!

I'd like to see some discussion on this.  Note that I did *not* direct
followups to news.groups, as I am not (yet) requesting comments on the
actual creation of such a group.

Please reply via e-mail, and I'll post a summary followup article.

- paul

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