usenet@gatech.CSNET (09/01/86)
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Original-from: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
! [Most recent change: 3 July 1985 by spaf]
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Original-from: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
! [Most recent change: 2 July 1986 by spaf]
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! "net.announce" is a newsgroup for important announcements. It is
intended to be read by everyone on Usenet, although nobody is forced to
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! "mod.announce" is a newsgroup for important announcements. It is
intended to be read by everyone on Usenet, although nobody is forced to
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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
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intended to be read by everyone on Usenet, although nobody is forced to
! subscribe. To post to mod.announce, send mail to the moderator at
"cbosgd!announce". Some netnews implementations will automatically
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! 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
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! Discussions in mod.announce are explicitly forbidden, and the volume of
traffic will be kept low enough to keep people from feeling a need to
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unsubscribe. Usenet administrators for each site should make a point
! of reading net.announce.
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unsubscribe. Usenet administrators for each site should make a point
! of reading mod.announce.
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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
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Some messages will be repeated every month, in order to reach all
! newcomers. These messages will be placed in mod.announce.newusers,
which is also moderated. This makes it safe for experienced users who
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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
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which is also moderated. This makes it safe for experienced users who
! have already read these messages to unsubscribe to mod.announce.newusers
! without missing anything new in mod.announce. If you aren't familiar
! with the netnews guidelines in mod.announce.newusers, please read them
carefully. Your understanding of these rules will assure that you don't
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! The current policy is that net.announce submissions must be:
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! The current policy is that mod.announce submissions must be:
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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
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net. The posting should be more of benefit to the net than to the poster.
! (c) not posted to any other newsgroup - mod.announce by itself is supposed
to be sufficient to reach everybody, and nobody should have to read
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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
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The moderation mechanism is working. You would not believe how many people
! have posted a followup to mod.announce, including an entire article,
followed by only "REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE." These get mailed
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Mark Horton Gene Spafford
! net.announce moderator net.announce.newusers moderator
cbosgd!mark gatech!spaf
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Mark Horton Gene Spafford
! mod.announce moderator mod.announce.newusers moderator
cbosgd!mark gatech!spafusenet@gatech.EDU (12/01/86)
*** old/intro.n Mon Sep 1 00:15:12 1986 --- src/intro.n Sat Nov 29 18:07:27 1986 *************** *** 2,4 **** Expires: 40days ! Approved: spaf@gatech.CSNET --- 2,4 ---- Expires: 40days ! Approved: spaf@gatech.EDU *************** *** 5,7 **** Original-from: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) ! [Most recent change: 2 July 1986 by spaf] --- 5,7 ---- Original-from: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) ! [Most recent change: 29 October 1986 by spaf@gatech.edu] *************** *** 10,16 **** subscribe. To post to mod.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. --- 10,17 ---- subscribe. To post to mod.announce, send mail to the moderator at ! "announce@cbosgd.att.com". Some netnews implementations will ! automatically mail to the moderator anything posted instead of ! attempting to post it directly. 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. *************** *** 49,50 **** mod.announce moderator mod.announce.newusers moderator ! cbosgd!mark gatech!spaf --- 50,51 ---- mod.announce moderator mod.announce.newusers moderator ! mark@cbosgd.att.com spaf@gatech.edu