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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: <5931@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
Date: 30 Jan 89 07:02:41 GMT
Expires: 30 Apr 89 07:02:41 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ.
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Supersedes: <5066@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 the
news.announce.newusers group, and the version posted a few weeks ago.
It is intended to enable experienced users to track changes to the
regularly posted Usenet documents.

*** old/etiquette.n	Mon Oct 10 21:55:14 1988
--- src/etiquette.n	Mon Jan 30 01:27:23 1989
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*** 5,7
  Original-from: chuq@sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
! [Most recent change: 10 October 1988 by msb@sq.com (Mark Brader)]
  

--- 5,7 -----
  Original-from: chuq@sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
! [Most recent change: 29 January 1989 by  Mark Brader <msb@sq.sq.com>]
  
***************
*** 116,118
    shouldn't post to groups you do not read, or post to groups you've
!   only read a few articles from -- you may not be familar with the on-going
    conventions and themes of the group.  One normally does not join

--- 116,118 -----
    shouldn't post to groups you do not read, or post to groups you've
!   only read a few articles from -- you may not be familiar with the on-going
    conventions and themes of the group.  One normally does not join
***************
*** 206,207
  
                     Be Careful About Copyrights and Licenses

--- 206,221 -----
  
+ 		 Check the Headers When Following Up
+   
+   The news software has provisions to specify that follow-ups to an
+   article should go to a specific set of newsgroups -- possibly
+   different than the newsgroups to which the original article was
+   posted.  Sometimes the groups chosen for follow-ups are totally
+   inappropriate, especially as a thread of discussion changes with
+   repeated postings.  You should carefully check the groups and
+   distributions given in the header and edit them as appropriate.  If
+   you change the groups named in the header, or if you direct
+   follow-ups to a particular group, say so in the body of the message
+   -- no everyone reads the headers of postings.
+ 
+ 
                     Be Careful About Copyrights and Licenses
***************
*** 208,217
  
!   Once something is posted onto the network, it is effectively in the public
!   domain.  When posting material to the network, keep in mind that material
!   that is UNIX-related may be restricted by the license you or your company
!   signed with AT&T and be careful not to violate it.  You should also be
!   aware that posting movie reviews, song lyrics, or anything else published
!   under a copyright could cause you, your company, or the net itself to be
!   held liable for damages, so we highly recommend caution in using this
!   material.
  

--- 222,235 -----
  
!   Once something is posted onto the network, it is effectively in the
!   public domain unless you own the appropriate rights (most notably,
!   if you wrote the thing yourself) and you post it with a valid
!   copyright notice.  Of course, the *information* becomes public, so
!   you mustn't post trade secrets that way.  When posting material to
!   the network, keep in mind that material that is UNIX-related may be
!   restricted by the license you or your company signed with AT&T and
!   be careful not to violate it.  You should also be aware that posting
!   movie reviews, song lyrics, or anything else published under a
!   copyright could cause you, your company, or the net itself to be
!   held liable for damages, so we highly recommend caution in using
!   this material.
  
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*** 276,277
         Read all follow-ups and don't repeat what has already been said
         Be careful about copyrights and licenses

--- 294,296 -----
         Read all follow-ups and don't repeat what has already been said
+        Double-check follow-up newsgroups and distributions.
         Be careful about copyrights and licenses
-- 
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