postann@cbosgd.UUCP (10/01/84)
net.announce is a newsgroup for important announcements. It is intended to be read by everyone on Usenet, although nobody is forced to subscribe. To post to net.announce, send mail to the moderator at "cbosgd!announce". If the message is appropriate, it will be posted by the moderator, if not, the moderator will suggest a more appropriate place to post it or a better way to go about the same goal. Discussions in net.announce are explicitly forbidden, and the volume of traffic will be kept low enough to keep people from feeling a need to unsubscribe. Usenet administrators for each site should make a point of reading net.announce. Some messages will be repeated every month, in order to reach all newcomers. These messages will be placed in net.announce.newusers, which is also moderated. This makes it safe for experienced users who have already read these messages to unsubscribe to net.announce.newusers without missing anything new in net.announce. If you aren't familiar with the netnews guidelines in net.announce.newusers, please read them carefully. Your understanding these rules will assure that you don't annoy the 10,000+ members of the net community by unintentionally abusing the net, and will help you get more value from the net. Mark Horton current net.announce moderator cbosgd!mark
usenet@gatech.UUCP (11/01/84)
Original-from: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) "net.announce" is a newsgroup for important announcements. It is intended to be read by everyone on Usenet, although nobody is forced to subscribe. To post to net.announce, send mail to the moderator at "cbosgd!announce". If the message is appropriate, it will be posted by the moderator; if not, the moderator will suggest a more appropriate place to post it or a better way to go about the same goal. Discussions in net.announce are explicitly forbidden, and the volume of traffic will be kept low enough to keep people from feeling a need to unsubscribe. Usenet administrators for each site should make a point of reading net.announce. Some messages will be repeated every month, in order to reach all newcomers. These messages will be placed in net.announce.newusers, which is also moderated. This makes it safe for experienced users who have already read these messages to unsubscribe to net.announce.newusers without missing anything new in net.announce. If you aren't familiar with the netnews guidelines in net.announce.newusers, please read them carefully. Your understanding of these rules will assure that you don't annoy the 10,000+ members of the net community by unintentionally abusing the net, and will help you get more value from the net. Mark Horton Gene Spafford net.announce moderator net.announce.newusers moderator cbosgd!mark gatech!spaf -- Super User
usenet@gatech.UUCP (12/01/84)
Original-from: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
[Most recent change: 10/02/84 spaf]
"net.announce" is a newsgroup for important announcements. It is
intended to be read by everyone on Usenet, although nobody is forced to
subscribe. To post to net.announce, send mail to the moderator at
"cbosgd!announce". If the message is appropriate, it will be posted by
the moderator; if not, the moderator will suggest a more appropriate
place to post it or a better way to go about the same goal.
Discussions in net.announce are explicitly forbidden, and the volume of
traffic will be kept low enough to keep people from feeling a need to
unsubscribe. Usenet administrators for each site should make a point
of reading net.announce.
Some messages will be repeated every month, in order to reach all
newcomers. These messages will be placed in net.announce.newusers,
which is also moderated. This makes it safe for experienced users who
have already read these messages to unsubscribe to
net.announce.newusers without missing anything new in net.announce. If
you aren't familiar with the netnews guidelines in
net.announce.newusers, please read them carefully. Your understanding
of these rules will assure that you don't annoy the 10,000+ members of
the net community by unintentionally abusing the net, and will help you
get more value from the net.
Mark Horton Gene Spafford
net.announce moderator net.announce.newusers moderator
cbosgd!mark gatech!spaf
--
Gene "8 months and counting" Spafford
The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
CSNet: Spaf @ GATech ARPA: Spaf%GATech.CSNet @ CSNet-Relay.ARPA
uucp: ...!{akgua,allegra,hplabs,ihnp4,linus,seismo,ulysses}!gatech!spafusenet@gatech.UUCP (01/01/85)
Original-from: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
[Most recent change: 2 October 1984 by spaf]
"net.announce" is a newsgroup for important announcements. It is
intended to be read by everyone on Usenet, although nobody is forced to
subscribe. To post to net.announce, send mail to the moderator at
"cbosgd!announce". If the message is appropriate, it will be posted by
the moderator; if not, the moderator will suggest a more appropriate
place to post it or a better way to go about the same goal.
Discussions in net.announce are explicitly forbidden, and the volume of
traffic will be kept low enough to keep people from feeling a need to
unsubscribe. Usenet administrators for each site should make a point
of reading net.announce.
Some messages will be repeated every month, in order to reach all
newcomers. These messages will be placed in net.announce.newusers,
which is also moderated. This makes it safe for experienced users who
have already read these messages to unsubscribe to
net.announce.newusers without missing anything new in net.announce. If
you aren't familiar with the netnews guidelines in
net.announce.newusers, please read them carefully. Your understanding
of these rules will assure that you don't annoy the 10,000+ members of
the net community by unintentionally abusing the net, and will help you
get more value from the net.
Mark Horton Gene Spafford
net.announce moderator net.announce.newusers moderator
cbosgd!mark gatech!spaf
--
Gene "7 months and counting" Spafford
The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
CSNet: Spaf @ GATech ARPA: Spaf%GATech.CSNet @ CSNet-Relay.ARPA
uucp: ...!{akgua,allegra,hplabs,ihnp4,linus,seismo,ulysses}!gatech!spafusenet@gatech.UUCP (02/01/85)
Original-from: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
[Most recent change: 2 October 1984 by spaf]
"net.announce" is a newsgroup for important announcements. It is
intended to be read by everyone on Usenet, although nobody is forced to
subscribe. To post to net.announce, send mail to the moderator at
"cbosgd!announce". If the message is appropriate, it will be posted by
the moderator; if not, the moderator will suggest a more appropriate
place to post it or a better way to go about the same goal.
Discussions in net.announce are explicitly forbidden, and the volume of
traffic will be kept low enough to keep people from feeling a need to
unsubscribe. Usenet administrators for each site should make a point
of reading net.announce.
Some messages will be repeated every month, in order to reach all
newcomers. These messages will be placed in net.announce.newusers,
which is also moderated. This makes it safe for experienced users who
have already read these messages to unsubscribe to
net.announce.newusers without missing anything new in net.announce. If
you aren't familiar with the netnews guidelines in
net.announce.newusers, please read them carefully. Your understanding
of these rules will assure that you don't annoy the 10,000+ members of
the net community by unintentionally abusing the net, and will help you
get more value from the net.
Mark Horton Gene Spafford
net.announce moderator net.announce.newusers moderator
cbosgd!mark gatech!spaf
--
Gene "6 months and counting" Spafford
The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
CSNet: Spaf @ GATech ARPA: Spaf%GATech.CSNet @ CSNet-Relay.ARPA
uucp: ...!{akgua,allegra,hplabs,ihnp4,linus,seismo,ulysses}!gatech!spafusenet@gatech.UUCP (03/01/85)
Original-from: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
[Most recent change: 2 October 1984 by spaf]
"net.announce" is a newsgroup for important announcements. It is
intended to be read by everyone on Usenet, although nobody is forced to
subscribe. To post to net.announce, send mail to the moderator at
"cbosgd!announce". If the message is appropriate, it will be posted by
the moderator; if not, the moderator will suggest a more appropriate
place to post it or a better way to go about the same goal.
Discussions in net.announce are explicitly forbidden, and the volume of
traffic will be kept low enough to keep people from feeling a need to
unsubscribe. Usenet administrators for each site should make a point
of reading net.announce.
Some messages will be repeated every month, in order to reach all
newcomers. These messages will be placed in net.announce.newusers,
which is also moderated. This makes it safe for experienced users who
have already read these messages to unsubscribe to
net.announce.newusers without missing anything new in net.announce. If
you aren't familiar with the netnews guidelines in
net.announce.newusers, please read them carefully. Your understanding
of these rules will assure that you don't annoy the 10,000+ members of
the net community by unintentionally abusing the net, and will help you
get more value from the net.
Mark Horton Gene Spafford
net.announce moderator net.announce.newusers moderator
cbosgd!mark gatech!spaf
--
Gene "5 months and counting" Spafford
The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
CSNet: Spaf @ GATech ARPA: Spaf%GATech.CSNet @ CSNet-Relay.ARPA
uucp: ...!{akgua,allegra,hplabs,ihnp4,linus,seismo,ulysses}!gatech!spafusenet@gatech.CSNET (04/02/85)
Original-from: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) [Most recent change: 2 October 1984 by spaf] "net.announce" is a newsgroup for important announcements. It is intended to be read by everyone on Usenet, although nobody is forced to subscribe. To post to net.announce, send mail to the moderator at "cbosgd!announce". If the message is appropriate, it will be posted by the moderator; if not, the moderator will suggest a more appropriate place to post it or a better way to go about the same goal. Discussions in net.announce are explicitly forbidden, and the volume of traffic will be kept low enough to keep people from feeling a need to unsubscribe. Usenet administrators for each site should make a point of reading net.announce. Some messages will be repeated every month, in order to reach all newcomers. These messages will be placed in net.announce.newusers, which is also moderated. This makes it safe for experienced users who have already read these messages to unsubscribe to net.announce.newusers without missing anything new in net.announce. If you aren't familiar with the netnews guidelines in net.announce.newusers, please read them carefully. Your understanding of these rules will assure that you don't annoy the 10,000+ members of the net community by unintentionally abusing the net, and will help you get more value from the net. Mark Horton Gene Spafford net.announce moderator net.announce.newusers moderator cbosgd!mark gatech!spaf
usenet@gatech.CSNET (06/01/85)
Original-from: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
[Most recent change: 2 October 1984 by spaf]
"net.announce" is a newsgroup for important announcements. It is
intended to be read by everyone on Usenet, although nobody is forced to
subscribe. To post to net.announce, send mail to the moderator at
"cbosgd!announce". If the message is appropriate, it will be posted by
the moderator; if not, the moderator will suggest a more appropriate
place to post it or a better way to go about the same goal.
Discussions in net.announce are explicitly forbidden, and the volume of
traffic will be kept low enough to keep people from feeling a need to
unsubscribe. Usenet administrators for each site should make a point
of reading net.announce.
Some messages will be repeated every month, in order to reach all
newcomers. These messages will be placed in net.announce.newusers,
which is also moderated. This makes it safe for experienced users who
have already read these messages to unsubscribe to
net.announce.newusers without missing anything new in net.announce. If
you aren't familiar with the netnews guidelines in
net.announce.newusers, please read them carefully. Your understanding
of these rules will assure that you don't annoy the 10,000+ members of
the net community by unintentionally abusing the net, and will help you
get more value from the net.
Mark Horton Gene Spafford
net.announce moderator net.announce.newusers moderator
cbosgd!mark gatech!spaf
--
Gene "3 months and holding" Spafford
The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
CSNet: Spaf @ GATech ARPA: Spaf%GATech.CSNet @ CSNet-Relay.ARPA
uucp: ...!{akgua,allegra,hplabs,ihnp4,linus,seismo,ulysses}!gatech!spafusenet@gatech.CSNET (07/01/85)
Original-from: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
[Most recent change: 3 June 1985 by mark]
"net.announce" is a newsgroup for important announcements. It is
intended to be read by everyone on Usenet, although nobody is forced to
subscribe. To post to net.announce, send mail to the moderator at
"cbosgd!announce". Some netnews implementations will automatically
mail anything posted to the moderator instead of attempting to post
it. If the message is appropriate, it will be posted by the moderator;
if not, the moderator will suggest a more appropriate place to post it
or a better way to go about the same goal.
Discussions in net.announce are explicitly forbidden, and the volume of
traffic will be kept low enough to keep people from feeling a need to
unsubscribe. Usenet administrators for each site should make a point
of reading net.announce.
Some messages will be repeated every month, in order to reach all
newcomers. These messages will be placed in net.announce.newusers,
which is also moderated. This makes it safe for experienced users who
have already read these messages to unsubscribe to net.announce.newusers
without missing anything new in net.announce. If you aren't familiar
with the netnews guidelines in net.announce.newusers, please read them
carefully. Your understanding of these rules will assure that you don't
annoy the 10,000+ members of the net community by unintentionally abusing
the net, and will help you get more value from the net.
The current policy is that net.announce submissions must be:
(a) short - preferably they should fit on one crt screen, including headers.
(b) important enough to at least have their header shown to everyone on the
net. The posting should be more of benefit to the net than to the poster.
(c) not posted to any other newsgroup - net.announce by itself is supposed
to be sufficient to reach everybody, and nobody should have to read
an announcement more than once.
(d) signed - the author should be clearly evident.
(e) not commercial, political, or religious in nature.
The moderation mechanism is working, you wouldn't believe how many people
have posted a followup to net.announce, including an entire article,
followed by only "REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE." These get mailed
to the moderator instead of being posted to the net.
Mark Horton Gene Spafford
net.announce moderator net.announce.newusers moderator
cbosgd!mark gatech!spaf
--
Gene "3 months and holding" Spafford
The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
CSNet: Spaf @ GATech ARPA: Spaf%GATech.CSNet @ CSNet-Relay.ARPA
uucp: ...!{akgua,allegra,hplabs,ihnp4,linus,seismo,ulysses}!gatech!spafusenet@gatech.UUCP (02/01/86)
Original-from: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
[Most recent change: 3 July 1985 by spaf]
"net.announce" is a newsgroup for important announcements. It is
intended to be read by everyone on Usenet, although nobody is forced to
subscribe. To post to net.announce, send mail to the moderator at
"cbosgd!announce". Some netnews implementations will automatically
mail anything posted to the moderator instead of attempting to post
it. If the message is appropriate, it will be posted by the moderator;
if not, the moderator will suggest a more appropriate place to post it
or a better way to go about the same goal.
Discussions in net.announce are explicitly forbidden, and the volume of
traffic will be kept low enough to keep people from feeling a need to
unsubscribe. Usenet administrators for each site should make a point
of reading net.announce.
Some messages will be repeated every month, in order to reach all
newcomers. These messages will be placed in net.announce.newusers,
which is also moderated. This makes it safe for experienced users who
have already read these messages to unsubscribe to net.announce.newusers
without missing anything new in net.announce. If you aren't familiar
with the netnews guidelines in net.announce.newusers, please read them
carefully. Your understanding of these rules will assure that you don't
annoy the 10,000+ members of the net community by unintentionally abusing
the net, and will help you get more value from the net.
The current policy is that net.announce submissions must be:
(a) short - preferably they should fit on one crt screen, including headers.
(b) important enough to at least have their header shown to everyone on the
net. The posting should be more of benefit to the net than to the poster.
(c) not posted to any other newsgroup - net.announce by itself is supposed
to be sufficient to reach everybody, and nobody should have to read
an announcement more than once.
(d) signed - the author should be clearly evident.
(e) not commercial, political, or religious in nature.
The moderation mechanism is working. You would not believe how many people
have posted a followup to net.announce, including an entire article,
followed by only "REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE." These get mailed
to the moderator instead of being posted to the net.
Mark Horton Gene Spafford
net.announce moderator net.announce.newusers moderator
cbosgd!mark gatech!spaf