mojo@kepler.UUCP (Morris Jones) (01/30/86)
I recently posted the following text as part of an article to the
news readers on The Well. Perhaps it's a reasonable example to
be used by other system administrators:
. . . The well has started to show up on the list of "Most Active"
participants in USENET -- a distinction that isn't one to be proud of.
[One participant] was number [xx] on the Top 25 Submitters list, and
the well was number 5 on the Top 25 Systems list. We posted 192.5 kb
of data making up 1.7% of the USENET traffic for the last two weeks.
The net is a very expensive sideline for a number of businesses and
universitys. And while I'm very proud of the quality of the submissions
leaving the Well, I would like you to think twice before submitting a
news article.
In particular, before you post a followup article, be sure that the
same effect wouldn't be produced by mailing a reply to the author of
the article. Now that we can find reasonably short paths to most
machines, this should be easier than before.
A practice that should be encouraged strongly is that of "summary"
followups. If you have a question that you'd like to submit to the
net, state that responses should be mailed to you, and then summarize
the mail responses in a posted article.
Thanks for reading!
Mojo Jones, USENET Administrator (Leprechaun)
The Well, Sausalito, CA
and . . .
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Mojo
... Morris Jones, MicroPro Product Development
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