Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!spaf
From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Changes to Rules for posting to Usenet
Message-ID: <8319@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
Date: 17 Oct 89 05:33:58 GMT
Expires: 15 Jan 90 05:33:58 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ.
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Supersedes: <7853@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.

*** /tmp/fo122984	Tue Oct 17 00:32:04 1989
--- /tmp/fo222984	Tue Oct 17 00:32:05 1989
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*** 5,7
  Original-from: mark@stargate.com (Mark Horton)
! [Most recent change: 2  Sep 1989 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
  

--- 5,7 -----
  Original-from: mark@stargate.com (Mark Horton)
! [Most recent change: 17 Oct 1989 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
  
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*** 157,161
   * Most special control characters will not work for most readers.
!    In fact, the tab and space characters are about the only ones
!    you can be sure work consistently, and tabs aren't always the
!    same from machine to machine.
   * Pictures and diagrams should not use embedded tabs.

--- 157,161 -----
   * Most special control characters will not work for most readers.
!    In fact, the  space character is about the only one
!    you can be sure will work consistently. Even tabs aren't always
!    the same from machine to machine, and should be avoided.
   * Pictures and diagrams should not use embedded tabs.
-- 
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