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- Article 408 of news.announce.newusers:
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- >From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford)
- Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers
- Subject: Introduction to news.announce (Updated: 15 May 1988)
- Message-ID: <6953@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
- Date: 20 Jun 89 04:27:07 GMT
- Expires: 18 Sep 89 04:27:06 GMT
- Organization: Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ.
- Lines: 50
- Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU
- Supersedes: <6745@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
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- Original-from: mark@stargate.com (Mark Horton)
- [Most recent change: 15 May 1988 by spaf@purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
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- "news.announce.important" is a newsgroup for just what it says it is --
- important announcements. It is intended to be read by everyone on
- Usenet, although nobody is forced to subscribe. To post to
- news.announce.important, send mail to the moderator at
- "announce@stargate.com". Some netnews implementations will
- automatically mail to the moderator anything posted instead of
- attempting to post it directly. If the message is appropriate, it will
- be posted by the moderator; if not, the moderator will suggest a more
- appropriate place to post it or a better way to go about the same
- goal.
-
- Discussions in news.announce.important are explicitly forbidden, and
- the volume of traffic will be kept low enough to keep people from
- feeling a need to unsubscribe. Usenet administrators for each site
- should make a point of reading news.announce.important.
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- Some messages will be repeated every month, in order to reach all
- newcomers. These messages will be placed in news.announce.newusers,
- which is also moderated. This makes it safe for experienced users who
- have already read these messages to unsubscribe to
- news.announce.newusers without missing anything new in
- news.announce.important. If you aren't familiar with the netnews
- guidelines in news.announce.newusers, please read them carefully. 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.
-
- The current policy is that news.announce.important submissions must be:
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- (a) short - preferably they should fit on one crt screen, including headers.
- (b) important enough to at least have their header shown to everyone on the
- net. The posting should be more of benefit to the net than to the poster.
- (c) not posted to any other newsgroup - news.announce.important by itself is
- supposed to be sufficient to reach everybody, and nobody should have to
- read an announcement more than once.
- (d) signed - the author should be clearly evident.
- (e) not commercial, political, or religious in nature.
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- Mark Horton Gene Spafford
- news.announce.important moderator news.announce.newusers moderator
- mark@stargate.com spaf@purdue.edu
- --
- 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
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