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- From: strom@Watson.Ibm.Com (Rob Strom)
- Subject: Re: Newsgroup creation guidelines (was Re: Folklore, synth, and guidelines)
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- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.221348.36268@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 22:13:48 GMT
- References: <1992Dec15.200011.18509@watson.ibm.com> <2B30D207.3681@tct.com> <1992Dec18.204851.31560@watson.ibm.com> <2B361014.6C74@tct.com>
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- In article <2B361014.6C74@tct.com>, chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
- |> According to strom@Watson.Ibm.Com (Rob Strom):
- |> >I was using the word "guidelines" loosely to refer to all the
- |> >tutorial postings in news.announce.newusers: None are actually
- |> >labelled as "guidelines" in their titles but reading them as a whole,
- |> >they appear to function collectively as such.
- |>
- |> You are mistaken. Only "How To Create ..." contains a procedure which
- |> must (for practical purposes) be followed. The other articles merely
- |> record societal conventions, which vary from newsgroup to newsgroup.
- |> The term "the guidelines" refers _only_ to the former.
- |>
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- OK. I've already conceded the point! I admitted
- that my use of the word "guidelines" was 'loose'.
- I'd like to move the discussion from which documents
- should be called "guidelines" and which not, to
- what the documents should say.
-
- My specific proposals would affect "How to Create..."
- as well as "User's Guide..."
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