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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: DISCUSSION: What about: news.readers.nn
Message-ID: <1989Dec19.215806.1742@twwells.com>
Date: 19 Dec 89 21:58:06 GMT
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In article <236@dino.cs.iastate.edu> mehl@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu writes:
: Incidently, I like nn very much and would support a news group for it.
: I only wonder what's going to happen to the group
: news.newusers.questions since it's already devoted to answering news
: reader questions.

That is not what it is for. N.n.q. exists for asking whatever
question that a neophyte (or even a not so neophyte) might have.
Here's the charter for news.newusers.questions:

	"A forum for relatively inexperienced users of Usenet to ask
	questions relating to Usenet and electronic mail. This is the
	place where you should feel free to ask that silly question
	you'd be embarrassed to ask in any other newsgroup."

Certainly there are a lot of "how do I get my newsreader to do X"
questions, but those are not the only ones.

One thing that does not happen often enough is redirecting
discussions of questions raised in n.n.q. to an appropriate
newsgroup, one reason being that such a newsgroup often does not
exist.

With the creation of groups like news.software.nn (or whatever)
there will now be a place to direct new users to that they can
get good answers from.

Which is to say, I'm for such a group.

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