Usenet 1993 July/InfoMagic USENET CD-ROM July 1993.ISO/answers/news-announce-intro/diff1

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From: [e-mail] (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: news.misc,news.answers
Subject: Changes to Introduction to news.announce
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Date: 26 Apr 1993 00:02:36 -0500
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Archive-name: news-announce-intro/diff1
Comment: enhanced & edited until 5/93 by [e-mail] (Gene Spafford)
Last-change: 25 Apr 1993 by [e-mail] (Gene Spafford)


*** old/intro.n    Mon Feb  1 00:47:18 1993
--- ./src/intro.n    Sun Apr 25 22:15:42 1993
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*** 5,11 ****
  Original-author: [e-mail] (Mark Horton)
! Last-change: 23 Sept 1992 by [e-mail] (Gene Spafford)

! The news.announce hierarchy contains the four moderated newsgroups
  news.announce.important, news.announce.newgroups,
! news.announce.newusers, and news.announce.conferences.

--- 5,13 ----
  Original-author: [e-mail] (Mark Horton)
! Comment: enhanced & edited until 5/93 by [e-mail] (Gene Spafford)
! Last-change: 25 Apr 1993 by [e-mail] (Gene Spafford)

! The news.announce hierarchy contains the seven moderated newsgroups
  news.announce.important, news.announce.newgroups,
! news.admin.technical, news.announce.newusers, news.answers, news.lists
! and news.announce.conferences.

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*** 46,47 ****
--- 48,54 ----

+ news.admin.technical is a newsgroup for discussion about software.
+ policies, and the technical aspects of running Usenet news.  Postings
+ of a more general nature should be posted to the unmoderated group
+ news.admin.misc instead.
+
  Some messages will be repeated every month, in order to reach all
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*** 54,59 ****
  Your understanding of these rules will assure that you don't annoy the
! more than 1 million members of the net community (estimated) by
  unintentionally abusing the net, and will help you get more value from
! the net.

  news.announce.conference is for announcements of conference programs,
--- 61,85 ----
  Your understanding of these rules will assure that you don't annoy the
! more than 3 million members of the net community (estimated) by
  unintentionally abusing the net, and will help you get more value from
! the net.  This group does not accept postings from users (although the
! moderator is usually willing to entertain suggestions for edits and
! additions to existing postings).

+ Many newsgroups have postings that are made periodically for new users
+ of those specific groups.  These postings are usually referred to as
+ FAQs, or Frequently-Asked Questions.  The postings are usually
+ cross-posted to the new.answers (and companion comp.answers,
+ sci.answers, etc.)  newsgroup for purposes of archiving and
+ consolidated searching.  Normally, users will not post articles here
+ unless they have constructed a FAQ for a particular newsgroup.
+
+ Several people make an on-going effort to collect administrative
+ information and interesting statistics about the news.  This
+ information, usually in the form of lists, is posted on a regular
+ basis to the news.lists newsgroup.  This allows others interested in
+ these topics (such as news flow, volume, valid newsgroup names, etc)
+ to find them all in one particular place.  Again, this is not a group
+ in which users will normally post, but they may find the information
+ in the group to be of interest.
+
  news.announce.conference is for announcements of conference programs,
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  calls for papers, and things of that kind.  Submissions should be
! directed to [e-mail].  Please keep Subject lines
  informative; if space permits, mention the topic and location there,
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  calls for papers, and things of that kind.  Submissions should be
! directed to [e-mail].  Please keep Subject lines
  informative; if space permits, mention the topic and location there,
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*** 65,72 ****

!     Mark Horton                         Gene Spafford
      news.announce.important moderator   news.announce.newusers moderator
!     [e-mail]                   [e-mail]

!      David Lawrence                      Dennis Page
!      news.announce.newgroups moderator   news.announce.conferences
!      [e-mail]                   [e-mail]
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!     Mark Horton                         Mark Moraes
      news.announce.important moderator   news.announce.newusers moderator
!     [e-mail]                   [e-mail]

!      David Lawrence                      Rich Ohnemus
!      news.announce.newgroups moderator   news.announce.conferences moderator
!     news.lists moderator            [e-mail]
!      [e-mail]
!
!     Jonathan Kamens                Scott Hazen Mueller
!     news.answers moderator            news.admin.technical moderator
!     [e-mail]        [e-mail]
--
Gene Spafford
Software Engineering Research Center & Dept. of Computer Sciences
Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-1398
Internet:  [e-mail]    phone:  [phone]