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Article #4534Goodbye to Usenet
From: Meetings are for those with litt...
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1986 02:00
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1986 02:00
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As a relative newcomer to this net, I recently replied (innocently) to a request for forming another newsgroup. The one response I got, in this newsgroup, was a public chastisement for doing so. (I should have responded to the original poster, I was told, to save net traffic.... ....even though the respondant could have likewise sent me a personal response, thus saving additional set traffic. Being new to USENET, I could have used some education as to proper behaviour... what I got was public abuse... My 2 month opinion of usenet? Some groups are very well run. Others consist of 15 authors remonstrating one message poster on how he/she has "abused" the net! Also endless discussions criticizing multiple newsgroup postings, newsgroup name discussions and other "important" stuff. Very unfriendly. The minority of "experts" that are SO willing to criticize make it difficult for newcomers to "feel at home". On to a friendlier net... -John Generally needed Disclimer: I am not speaking for DEC, just for myself...
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site decwrl.DEC.COM Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-ace!brewer From: brewer@ace.DEC (Meetings are for those with little to do) Newsgroups: net.general Subject: Goodbye to Usenet Message-ID: <1794@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Wed, 19-Mar-86 21:00:50 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.1794 Posted: Wed Mar 19 21:00:50 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 22-Mar-86 04:49:43 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.DEC.COM Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 25