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From: spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: net abbreviations
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Date: 14 May 89 20:18:18 GMT
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In article <3897@utastro.UUCP> james@utastro.UUCP (James McCartney) writes:
>
>   Still no one has answered my second question : How do I read the articles in
>news.announce.newusers ? When I do 'readnews news.announce.newusers' I get
>'No news.' I also tried using -x with the same result.

Muts be your site admin expires news without paying any heed to the
"Expires" header line.  I post the stuff to news.announce.newusers
every 4 to 6 weeks (depending on amount of change and my workload).
Each article as an expiration of 90 days on it, and the articles were
last posted in early April.  They will get posted again in another
week or so.
-- 
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