Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tank!nic.MR.NET!hal!cwjcc!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sm.unisys.com!ism780c!dana From: dana@ism780c.isc.com (Dana Jordan) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: "mod.announce.newusers"--where is it? Message-ID: <19452@ism780c.isc.com> Date: 18 Nov 88 03:21:42 GMT References: <19170@ism780c.isc.com> Reply-To: dana@ism780c.UUCP (Dana Jordan) Distribution: news.misc Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA Lines: 31 In article karl@dinosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes: >You're suffering from an out-of-date rn help file. The proper >newsgroup name is news.announce.newusers. > >--Karl Thanx to you and several others who sent me this response to my request for info re this "netiquette" help file. I still don't know, however, how to get around the fact that, when I (originally) tried to read "news.announce.newusers"the system responded by saying there were 0 files unread. I (stubbornly) tried to read them anyway (since nothing else had worked), but of course there were no articles to read. I can only assume that, if the file was there when I first got onto the system a few weeks ago, I scrolled thru it. (I was new to "rn" and thought of it like e-mail, where I customarily scroll thru files and save them to read in detail later when I have more time.) If this is what I (as a greenhorn re "rn") did, then of course the system regarded me as having "read" the article and then may have made it go away in conventional fashion. All this begs the question, then (at least for rn novices like me), as to how you regain access to an article that is intended to be read by future users. Is there no way to "grab" it again, even if I've already "read" it? Anyway, I assume none of this has created a major crisis because I've been sending replies out over the net and no one has yet threatened to send Hal or Sal after me or my little terminal pal. thanx again, guyz-- ...dana