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From: root@conexch.UUCP (Larry Dighera)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Policies regarding news access
Summary: Please require new USENET users to read news.announce.newusers.
Message-ID: <22786@conexch.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 89 20:02:11 GMT
References: <648@gumby.cc.wmich.edu>
Reply-To: root@conexch.UUCP (Larry Dighera)
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In article <648@gumby.cc.wmich.edu> peirce@gumby.cc.wmich.edu (Leonard J. Peirce) writes:
>Now that we have ANU News for VMS up and running, we have the capability
>to allow ALL of the users here (approx. 15,000) access to news.  Before we
>do that, however, I was wondering what policies (if any) regarding access to
>news are in place at other universites (or any other sites, for that matter).


15,000 new users on USENET!?  Personally, I would like to see new USENET
users allowed read-only access for a few weeks, until they become familiar
with the standards and philosophy of USENET.  Then, after passing a short
written exam. to determine that they have in fact read the materials in
news.announce.newusers, they would be eligible for access to postnews/Pnews.

Larry Dighera

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