Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!decwrl!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: <6195@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Date: 7 Mar 89 04:46:25 GMT Expires: 5 Jun 89 04:46:24 GMT Organization: Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ. Lines: 74 Supersedes: <5931@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 Jan 30 02:01:27 1989 --- src/etiquette.n Mon Mar 6 23:42:33 1989 *************** *** 5,7 Original-from: chuq@sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) ! [Most recent change: 29 January 1989 by Mark Brader ] --- 5,7 ----- Original-from: chuq@sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) ! [Most recent change: 6 March 1989 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)] *************** *** 60,61 Be Brief --- 60,75 ----- + Be Careful What You Say About Others + + Please remember -- you read netnews; so do as many as 250,000 other + people. This group quite possibly includes your boss, your friend's + boss, your girl friend's brother's best friend and one of your + father's beer buddies. Information posted on the net can come back + to haunt you or the person you are talking about. + + Think twice before you post personal information about yourself or + others. This applies especially strongly to groups like soc.singles + and alt.sex but even postings in groups like talk.politics.misc have + included information about the personal life of third parties that + could get them into serious trouble if it got into the wrong hands. + Be Brief *************** *** 210,212 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 --- 224,226 ----- article should go to a specific set of newsgroups -- possibly ! different from the newsgroups to which the original article was posted. Sometimes the groups chosen for follow-ups are totally *************** *** 217,219 follow-ups to a particular group, say so in the body of the message ! -- no everyone reads the headers of postings. --- 231,233 ----- follow-ups to a particular group, say so in the body of the message ! -- not everyone reads the headers of postings. *************** *** 284,285 Never forget that the person on the other side is human Be brief --- 298,300 ----- Never forget that the person on the other side is human + Be Careful What You Say About Others Be brief -- 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