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In article <2B361014.6C74@tct.com>, chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
|> According to strom@Watson.Ibm.Com (Rob Strom):
|> >I was using the word "guidelines" loosely to refer to all the
|> >tutorial postings in news.announce.newusers: None are actually
|> >labelled as "guidelines" in their titles but reading them as a whole,
|> >they appear to function collectively as such.
|> 
|> You are mistaken.  Only "How To Create ..." contains a procedure which
|> must (for practical purposes) be followed.  The other articles merely
|> record societal conventions, which vary from newsgroup to newsgroup.
|> The term "the guidelines" refers _only_ to the former.
|> 

OK.  I've already conceded the point!  I admitted
that my use of the word "guidelines" was 'loose'.
I'd like to move the discussion from which documents
should be called "guidelines" and which not, to
what the documents should say.

My specific proposals would affect "How to Create..."
as well as "User's Guide..."

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