Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!purdue!spaf
From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Changes to A Primer on How to Work With the Usenet Community
Message-ID: <4848@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
Date: 12 Sep 88 02:19:14 GMT
Expires: 11 Dec 88 02:19:13 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ.
Lines: 63
Supersedes: <4541@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>

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/etiquette.n	Tue Jul 26 19:55:36 1988
--- src/etiquette.n	Sun Sep 11 21:12:12 1988
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*** 1,4
  Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers
! Expires: 40days
! Approved: spaf@purdue.EDU
  

--- 1,4 -----
  Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers
! Expires: 90days
! Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU
  
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*** 5,7
  Original-from: chuq@sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
! [Most recent change: 26 July 1988 by spaf@purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
  

--- 5,7 -----
  Original-from: chuq@sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
! [Most recent change: 11 September 1988 by spaf@purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
  
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*** 248,257
  
!   Signatures are nice, and many people can have a signature added to their
!   postings automatically by placing it in a file called "$HOME/.signature".
!   Don't overdo it.  Signatures can tell the world something about you, but
!   keep them short.  A signature that is longer than the message itself is
!   considered to be in bad taste.  The main purpose of a signature is to help
!   people locate you on the net, not learn your life story.  Every signature
!   should include your return address relative to a well known site on the
!   network.  Your system administrator can give this to you.
  

--- 248,261 -----
  
!   Signatures are nice, and many people can have a signature added to
!   their postings automatically by placing it in a file called
!   "$HOME/.signature".  Don't overdo it.  Signatures can tell the world
!   something about you, but keep them short.  A signature that is longer
!   than the message itself is considered to be in bad taste.  The main
!   purpose of a signature is to help people locate you on the net, not
!   learn your life story.  Every signature should include at least your
!   return address relative to a well known site on the network and/or a
!   proper domain-format address.   Your system administrator can give
!   this to you.  Some news posters attempt to enforce a 4 line limit on
!   signature files -- an amount that should be more than sufficient to
!   provide a return address and attribution.
  
-- 
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