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Started by usenet
Mon, 01 Sep 1986 04:21
Changes to Introduction to mod.announce
Author: usenet
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 1986 04:21
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 1986 04:21
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*** old/intro.n Tue Jul 1 00:15:12 1986
--- src/intro.n Wed Jul 2 08:37:12 1986
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Original-from: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
! [Most recent change: 3 July 1985 by spaf]
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Original-from: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
! [Most recent change: 2 July 1986 by spaf]
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! "net.announce" is a newsgroup for important announcements. It is
intended to be read by everyone on Usenet, although nobody is forced to
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! "mod.announce" is a newsgroup for important announcements. It is
intended to be read by everyone on Usenet, although nobody is forced to
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intended to be read by everyone on Usenet, although nobody is forced to
! subscribe. To post to net.announce, send mail to the moderator at
"cbosgd!announce". Some netnews implementations will automatically
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intended to be read by everyone on Usenet, although nobody is forced to
! subscribe. To post to mod.announce, send mail to the moderator at
"cbosgd!announce". Some netnews implementations will automatically
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! Discussions in net.announce are explicitly forbidden, and the volume of
traffic will be kept low enough to keep people from feeling a need to
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! Discussions in mod.announce are explicitly forbidden, and the volume of
traffic will be kept low enough to keep people from feeling a need to
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unsubscribe. Usenet administrators for each site should make a point
! of reading net.announce.
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unsubscribe. Usenet administrators for each site should make a point
! of reading mod.announce.
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Some messages will be repeated every month, in order to reach all
! newcomers. These messages will be placed in net.announce.newusers,
which is also moderated. This makes it safe for experienced users who
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Some messages will be repeated every month, in order to reach all
! newcomers. These messages will be placed in mod.announce.newusers,
which is also moderated. This makes it safe for experienced users who
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which is also moderated. This makes it safe for experienced users who
! have already read these messages to unsubscribe to net.announce.newusers
! without missing anything new in net.announce. If you aren't familiar
! with the netnews guidelines in net.announce.newusers, please read them
carefully. Your understanding of these rules will assure that you don't
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which is also moderated. This makes it safe for experienced users who
! have already read these messages to unsubscribe to mod.announce.newusers
! without missing anything new in mod.announce. If you aren't familiar
! with the netnews guidelines in mod.announce.newusers, please read them
carefully. Your understanding of these rules will assure that you don't
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! The current policy is that net.announce submissions must be:
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! The current policy is that mod.announce submissions must be:
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net. The posting should be more of benefit to the net than to the poster.
! (c) not posted to any other newsgroup - net.announce by itself is supposed
to be sufficient to reach everybody, and nobody should have to read
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net. The posting should be more of benefit to the net than to the poster.
! (c) not posted to any other newsgroup - mod.announce by itself is supposed
to be sufficient to reach everybody, and nobody should have to read
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The moderation mechanism is working. You would not believe how many people
! have posted a followup to net.announce, including an entire article,
followed by only "REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE." These get mailed
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The moderation mechanism is working. You would not believe how many people
! have posted a followup to mod.announce, including an entire article,
followed by only "REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE." These get mailed
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Mark Horton Gene Spafford
! net.announce moderator net.announce.newusers moderator
cbosgd!mark gatech!spaf
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Mark Horton Gene Spafford
! mod.announce moderator mod.announce.newusers moderator
cbosgd!mark gatech!spaf
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