lamy@ai.toronto.edu.UUCP (11/24/87)
I have just finished going through our newsetup procedure to make sure, among other things, that news.announce.newusers was the first newsgroup presented. But to my horror, it just happens that the first article in that newsgroup is a *diff* listing. Now, tell me a) what is a sparkling new user going to do with a diff listing? b) what is a less bubbly user going to think about the relevance about what is posted there? Pretty please, lets get diff listings out of news,announce.newusers (post the diffs to news.sysadmin if there is a market there -- what it is the market for these diffs anyway?) Jean-Francois Lamy lamy@ai.toronto.edu lamy@ai.toronto.cdn AI Group, Dept of Computer Science uunet!ai.toronto.edu!lamy University of Toronto lamy%ai.toronto.edu@relay.cs.net (arpa) Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4 lamy@ai.utoronto, lamy@utorgpu (bitnet)
spaf@arthur.cs.purdue.edu.UUCP (11/30/87)
If a "diff" listing is the first thing you saw in news.announce.newusers,
then somebody along the line from here to there dropped the postings
of the complete articles, or else they scrambled the order of tranmission.
Many people only read news.announce.newusers for the diff listings, to see
what groups and mailing lists (etc.) have changed. I always post the
diffs last, after posting the full articles, so that there should be
minimal (if any) confusion.
If people let me know that they would rather not have the diffs, or else
see those diffs elsewhere, then I will change the way I post them.
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Gene Spafford
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf