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From: estmdhb@warwick.ac.uk (estmdhb)
Newsgroups: news.misc,news.groups
Subject: Re: Would news.newusers be possible? (was Re: Alternate access)
Message-ID: <105@orchid.warwick.ac.uk>
Date: 18 May 89 17:12:28 GMT
References: <995@cipc1.Dayton.NCR.COM> <911@twwells.uucp> <97@orchid.warwick.ac.uk> <623@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: estmdhb@warwick.ac.uk (Julian Greenwood)
Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK
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In article <623@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> wcs@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (Bill Stewart 201-949-0705 ho95c.att.com!wcs) writes:

>In article <97@orchid.warwick.ac.uk> estmdhb@warwick.ac.uk (Julian Greenwood) writes:

>]>Hey, there's an idea: a news.newusers group, for helping beginning users!.....

I didn't actually, bill@twwells.UCCP (T. William Wells) wrote it in article
<911@twwells.uccp>.   I replied to his article.

However, I agree entirely with what Bill Stewart says (below).   In fact I
count myself as one of the annual crowd of new students to which he refers!


>My first reaction  was to think "but we have news.announce.newusers", but
>there really is a need for an interactive newsgroup where new users
>can post questions.
>
> [Stuff missed]
>
>news.newusers would especially help with problems like the annual
>crowd of new students who know enough to be dangerous and would like
>to know enough  to be competent - maybe this can delay the
>	Death of Usenet As We Know It
>which is announced every 6-9 months?
>
>The original posting was in news.misc, and had a few replies - some
>from  experienced people and some from new users.  Is it time for a
>Call For Discussion?


Julian

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