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jamie@csd.uwo.ca (J. Blustein) writes:
>     What kind of message would be so important that everybody had to
> read it?

  "The news server you are using is going down permanently in one
   week.  Please switch over to the new news server foo.  If you
   need help, call XXXX."

  "This news server will be unavailable for the next 24 hours due to
   a system upgrade.  After this time it may go down on short
   notice."

  "The threaded newsreader you are using has (will) changed database
   formats.  Please upgrade..."

No matter how many times you tell people to read a local group, they
won't all do it.  Then they claim that you didn't tell them
something.  This seems like an easy way to blast out a message to
everybody without causing too much bother.  Again, remember that I
don't have access to the .profile/.login on the remote computers - I
can only tell them something via nntp.