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Changes to A Primer on How to Work With the Usenet Community
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Author: usenet
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 1986 21:49
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*** old/etiquette.n	Mon Sep  1 00:17:13 1986
--- src/etiquette.n	Wed Oct 15 01:45:46 1986
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  Original-from: chuq@sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
! [Most recent change: 13 July 1986 by weemba@brahms.berkeley.edu]
  
--- 5,7 ----
  Original-from: chuq@sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
! [Most recent change: 15 October 1986 by spaf@gatech.edu]
  
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!   It is considered bad form to post both to net.general, net.misc, net.net-
!   people, or net.wanted and to some other newsgroup.  If it belongs in that
!   other newsgroup, it does not belong in net.general, net.misc, net.net-
!   people, or net.wanted.  It is important that no unnecessary messages be
!   sent to net.general.  If it gets overloaded, people will start unsubscrib-
!   ing to it and its usefulness will be impaired.
  
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!   It is considered bad form to post both to misc.misc, soc.net-people,
!   or misc.wanted and to some other newsgroup.  If it belongs in that
!   other newsgroup, it does not belong in misc.misc, soc.net-people,
!   or misc.wanted.  
  
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    If you want to try a test of something, do not use a net-wide newsgroup!
!   Messages in net.general that say "This is a test" are likely to cause
    large numbers of caustic messages to flow into your mailbox.  There are
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    If you want to try a test of something, do not use a net-wide newsgroup!
!   Messages in misc.misc that say "This is a test" are likely to cause
    large numbers of caustic messages to flow into your mailbox.  There are
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    can tell you how the software on your system works, or you can use the
!   Unix command "tr [a-z][A-Z] [n-z][a-m][N-Z][A-M]" (note that some versions
!   of Unix don't require the [] in he "tr" command).
  
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    can tell you how the software on your system works, or you can use the
!   Unix command "tr [a-z][A-Z] [n-z][a-m][N-Z][A-M]". (Note that some versions
!   of Unix don't require the [] in the "tr" command.  In fact, some systems
!   will get upset if you use them in an unquoted manner.  The following should
!   work for everyone, but may be shortened on some systems:
! 	tr '[a-m][n-z][A-M][N-Z]' '[n-z][a-m][N-Z][A-M]'
!   Don't forget the single quotes!)
  
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