🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Oct9.153359.4787@miki.pictel.com> wpns@miki.pictel.com (Willie Smith) writes:
>Well, I dunno, it seems to me that a flamefest and mailbombing run on
>everyone who does such a thing will eventually ensure that newcomers
>will get the word as soon as they get their network connection.  Kind
>of "Welcome to the net, be sure not to make the following mistakes."

How many new users read news.announce.important or news.announce.newusers
when they first hit the net?

>Willie Smith
>wpns@pictel.com
>
>[BTW: I didn't get the junk mail, didn't send anything to the idiots
>who sent it out, and think the folks who sold them network services
>should have ensured they knew what the net _was_ before taking their
>money.]

The problem is, of course, that no two people's definition of 'the
net' are exactly the same.
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 I'll get a life when someone demonstrates that it would be superior to
                          what I have now...