spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) (09/12/88)
This posting contains a listing of differences between the version of
the article (referenced in the "Subject:" line) just posted to this
group, and the version posted a few weeks ago. New users may ignore
this posting -- it is intended to enable experienced users
to track changes to the regularly posted Usenet documents.
*** old/etiquette.n Tue Jul 26 19:55:36 1988
--- src/etiquette.n Sun Sep 11 21:12:12 1988
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*** 1,4
Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers
! Expires: 40days
! Approved: spaf@purdue.EDU
--- 1,4 -----
Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers
! Expires: 90days
! Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU
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*** 5,7
Original-from: chuq@sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
! [Most recent change: 26 July 1988 by spaf@purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
--- 5,7 -----
Original-from: chuq@sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
! [Most recent change: 11 September 1988 by spaf@purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
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*** 248,257
! Signatures are nice, and many people can have a signature added to their
! postings automatically by placing it in a file called "$HOME/.signature".
! Don't overdo it. Signatures can tell the world something about you, but
! keep them short. A signature that is longer than the message itself is
! considered to be in bad taste. The main purpose of a signature is to help
! people locate you on the net, not learn your life story. Every signature
! should include your return address relative to a well known site on the
! network. Your system administrator can give this to you.
--- 248,261 -----
! Signatures are nice, and many people can have a signature added to
! their postings automatically by placing it in a file called
! "$HOME/.signature". Don't overdo it. Signatures can tell the world
! something about you, but keep them short. A signature that is longer
! than the message itself is considered to be in bad taste. The main
! purpose of a signature is to help people locate you on the net, not
! learn your life story. Every signature should include at least your
! return address relative to a well known site on the network and/or a
! proper domain-format address. Your system administrator can give
! this to you. Some news posters attempt to enforce a 4 line limit on
! signature files -- an amount that should be more than sufficient to
! provide a return address and attribution.
--
Gene Spafford
NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center,
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spafspaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) (10/11/88)
This posting contains a listing of differences between the version of
the article (referenced in the "Subject:" line) just posted to this
group, and the version posted a few weeks ago. New users may ignore
this posting -- it is intended to enable experienced users
to track changes to the regularly posted Usenet documents.
*** old/etiquette.n Sun Sep 11 21:17:45 1988
--- src/etiquette.n Mon Oct 10 21:26:22 1988
***************
*** 5,7
Original-from: chuq@sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
! [Most recent change: 11 September 1988 by spaf@purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
--- 5,7 -----
Original-from: chuq@sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
! [Most recent change: 10 October 1988 by msb@sq.com (Mark Brader)]
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*** 253,259
than the message itself is considered to be in bad taste. The main
! purpose of a signature is to help people locate you on the net, not
! learn your life story. Every signature should include at least your
! return address relative to a well known site on the network and/or a
! proper domain-format address. Your system administrator can give
! this to you. Some news posters attempt to enforce a 4 line limit on
signature files -- an amount that should be more than sufficient to
--- 253,259 -----
than the message itself is considered to be in bad taste. The main
! purpose of a signature is to help people locate you, not to tell your
! life story. Every signature should include at least your return
! address relative to a well known site on the network and/or a proper
! domain-format address. Your system administrator can give this to
! you. Some news posters attempt to enforce a 4 line limit on
signature files -- an amount that should be more than sufficient to
--
Gene Spafford
NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center,
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spafspaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) (01/30/89)
This posting contains a listing of differences between the version of
the article (referenced in the "Subject:" line) just posted to the
news.announce.newusers group, and the version posted a few weeks ago.
It is intended to enable experienced users to track changes to the
regularly posted Usenet documents.
*** old/etiquette.n Mon Oct 10 21:55:14 1988
--- src/etiquette.n Mon Jan 30 01:27:23 1989
***************
*** 5,7
Original-from: chuq@sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
! [Most recent change: 10 October 1988 by msb@sq.com (Mark Brader)]
--- 5,7 -----
Original-from: chuq@sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
! [Most recent change: 29 January 1989 by Mark Brader <msb@sq.sq.com>]
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*** 116,118
shouldn't post to groups you do not read, or post to groups you've
! only read a few articles from -- you may not be familar with the on-going
conventions and themes of the group. One normally does not join
--- 116,118 -----
shouldn't post to groups you do not read, or post to groups you've
! only read a few articles from -- you may not be familiar with the on-going
conventions and themes of the group. One normally does not join
***************
*** 206,207
Be Careful About Copyrights and Licenses
--- 206,221 -----
+ Check the Headers When Following Up
+
+ The news software has provisions to specify that follow-ups to an
+ article should go to a specific set of newsgroups -- possibly
+ different than the newsgroups to which the original article was
+ posted. Sometimes the groups chosen for follow-ups are totally
+ inappropriate, especially as a thread of discussion changes with
+ repeated postings. You should carefully check the groups and
+ distributions given in the header and edit them as appropriate. If
+ you change the groups named in the header, or if you direct
+ follow-ups to a particular group, say so in the body of the message
+ -- no everyone reads the headers of postings.
+
+
Be Careful About Copyrights and Licenses
***************
*** 208,217
! Once something is posted onto the network, it is effectively in the public
! domain. When posting material to the network, keep in mind that material
! that is UNIX-related may be restricted by the license you or your company
! signed with AT&T and be careful not to violate it. You should also be
! aware that posting movie reviews, song lyrics, or anything else published
! under a copyright could cause you, your company, or the net itself to be
! held liable for damages, so we highly recommend caution in using this
! material.
--- 222,235 -----
! Once something is posted onto the network, it is effectively in the
! public domain unless you own the appropriate rights (most notably,
! if you wrote the thing yourself) and you post it with a valid
! copyright notice. Of course, the *information* becomes public, so
! you mustn't post trade secrets that way. When posting material to
! the network, keep in mind that material that is UNIX-related may be
! restricted by the license you or your company signed with AT&T and
! be careful not to violate it. You should also be aware that posting
! movie reviews, song lyrics, or anything else published under a
! copyright could cause you, your company, or the net itself to be
! held liable for damages, so we highly recommend caution in using
! this material.
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*** 276,277
Read all follow-ups and don't repeat what has already been said
Be careful about copyrights and licenses
--- 294,296 -----
Read all follow-ups and don't repeat what has already been said
+ Double-check follow-up newsgroups and distributions.
Be careful about copyrights and licenses
--
Gene Spafford
NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center,
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spafspaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) (03/07/89)
This posting contains a listing of differences between the version of
the article (referenced in the "Subject:" line) just posted to the
news.announce.newusers group, and the version posted a few weeks ago.
It is intended to enable experienced users to track changes to the
regularly posted Usenet documents.
*** old/etiquette.n Mon Jan 30 02:01:27 1989
--- src/etiquette.n Mon Mar 6 23:42:33 1989
***************
*** 5,7
Original-from: chuq@sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
! [Most recent change: 29 January 1989 by Mark Brader <msb@sq.sq.com>]
--- 5,7 -----
Original-from: chuq@sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
! [Most recent change: 6 March 1989 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
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*** 60,61
Be Brief
--- 60,75 -----
+ Be Careful What You Say About Others
+
+ Please remember -- you read netnews; so do as many as 250,000 other
+ people. This group quite possibly includes your boss, your friend's
+ boss, your girl friend's brother's best friend and one of your
+ father's beer buddies. Information posted on the net can come back
+ to haunt you or the person you are talking about.
+
+ Think twice before you post personal information about yourself or
+ others. This applies especially strongly to groups like soc.singles
+ and alt.sex but even postings in groups like talk.politics.misc have
+ included information about the personal life of third parties that
+ could get them into serious trouble if it got into the wrong hands.
+
Be Brief
***************
*** 210,212
article should go to a specific set of newsgroups -- possibly
! different than the newsgroups to which the original article was
posted. Sometimes the groups chosen for follow-ups are totally
--- 224,226 -----
article should go to a specific set of newsgroups -- possibly
! different from the newsgroups to which the original article was
posted. Sometimes the groups chosen for follow-ups are totally
***************
*** 217,219
follow-ups to a particular group, say so in the body of the message
! -- no everyone reads the headers of postings.
--- 231,233 -----
follow-ups to a particular group, say so in the body of the message
! -- not everyone reads the headers of postings.
***************
*** 284,285
Never forget that the person on the other side is human
Be brief
--- 298,300 -----
Never forget that the person on the other side is human
+ Be Careful What You Say About Others
Be brief
--
Gene Spafford
NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center,
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spafspaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) (04/09/89)
This posting contains a listing of differences between the version of
the article (referenced in the "Subject:" line) just posted to the
news.announce.newusers group, and the version posted a few weeks ago.
It is intended to enable experienced users to track changes to the
regularly posted Usenet documents.
*** old/etiquette.n Mon Mar 6 23:45:25 1989
--- src/etiquette.n Sat Apr 8 16:46:40 1989
***************
*** 1,3
Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers
! Expires: 90days
Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU
--- 1,3 -----
Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers
! Expires: +90days
Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU
--
Gene Spafford
NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center,
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spafspaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) (05/15/89)
This posting contains a listing of differences between the version of
the article (referenced in the "Subject:" line) just posted to the
news.announce.newusers group, and the version posted a few weeks ago.
It is intended to enable experienced users to track changes to the
regularly posted Usenet documents.
*** old/etiquette.n Sat Apr 8 16:49:39 1989
--- src/etiquette.n Sun May 14 22:44:18 1989
***************
*** 5,7
Original-from: chuq@sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
! [Most recent change: 6 March 1989 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
--- 5,7 -----
Original-from: chuq@sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
! [Most recent change: 14 May 1989 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
***************
*** 13,15
! *** You now have access to Usenet, a big network of thousands of
computers. Other documents or your system administrator will provide
--- 13,15 -----
! *** You now have access to Usenet, a network of thousands of
computers. Other documents or your system administrator will provide
***************
*** 20,26
! USENET is a large collection of computers that share data with each other.
! It is the people on these computers that make USENET worth the effort, and
! for USENET to function properly those people must be able to interact in
! productive ways. This document is intended as a guide to using the net in
! ways that will be pleasant and productive for everyone.
--- 20,27 -----
! USENET is a large collection of computers that share data with each
! other. It is the people on these computers that make USENET worth
! the effort to read and maintain, and for USENET to function properly
! those people must be able to interact in productive ways. This
! document is intended as a guide to using the net in ways that will
! be pleasant and productive for everyone.
--
Gene Spafford
NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center,
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spafspaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) (06/20/89)
This posting contains a listing of differences between the version of
the article (referenced in the "Subject:" line) just posted to the
news.announce.newusers group, and the version posted a few weeks ago.
It is intended to enable experienced users to track changes to the
regularly posted Usenet documents.
*** old/etiquette.n Sun May 14 22:55:32 1989
--- src/etiquette.n Mon Jun 19 22:30:29 1989
***************
*** 5,7
Original-from: chuq@sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
! [Most recent change: 14 May 1989 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
--- 5,7 -----
Original-from: chuq@sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
! [Most recent change: 19 June 1989 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
--
Gene Spafford
NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center,
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spafspaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) (07/22/89)
This posting contains a listing of differences between the version of
the article (referenced in the "Subject:" line) just posted to the
news.announce.newusers group, and the version posted a few weeks ago.
It is intended to enable experienced users to track changes to the
regularly posted Usenet documents.
*** /tmp/fo16118 Fri Jul 21 23:12:29 1989
--- /tmp/fo26118 Fri Jul 21 23:12:29 1989
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*** 5,7
Original-from: chuq@sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
! [Most recent change: 19 June 1989 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
--- 5,7 -----
Original-from: chuq@sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
! [Most recent change: 21 Jul 1989 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
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*** 294,295
--- 294,296 -----
+ Limit Line Length and Avoid Control Characters
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*** 295,296
Summary of Things to Remember
--- 296,309 -----
+ Try to keep your text in a generic format. Many (if not most) of
+ the people reading Usenet do so from 80 column terminals or from
+ workstations with 80 column terminal windows. Try to keep your
+ lines of text to less than 80 characters for optimal readability.
+ Also realize that there are many, many different forms of terminals
+ in use. If you enter special control characters in your message, it
+ may result in your message being unreadable on some terminal types;
+ a character sequence that causes reverse video on your screen may
+ result in a keyboard lock and graphics mode on someone else's
+ terminal.
+
+
Summary of Things to Remember
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*** 317,319
Don't overdo signatures
!
--- 330,332 -----
Don't overdo signatures
! Limit line length and avoid control characters
--
Gene Spafford
NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center,
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spafspaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) (10/17/89)
This posting contains a listing of differences between the version of
the article (referenced in the "Subject:" line) just posted to the
news.announce.newusers group, and the version posted a few weeks ago.
It is intended to enable experienced users to track changes to the
regularly posted Usenet documents.
*** /tmp/fo123041 Tue Oct 17 00:32:21 1989
--- /tmp/fo223041 Tue Oct 17 00:32:21 1989
***************
*** 5,7
Original-from: chuq@sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
! [Most recent change: 21 Jul 1989 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
--- 5,7 -----
Original-from: chuq@sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
! [Most recent change: 17 Oct 1989 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
***************
*** 288,290
life story. Every signature should include at least your return
! address relative to a well known site on the network and/or a proper
domain-format address. Your system administrator can give this to
--- 288,290 -----
life story. Every signature should include at least your return
! address relative to a major, known site on the network and a proper
domain-format address. Your system administrator can give this to
***************
*** 305,307
result in a keyboard lock and graphics mode on someone else's
! terminal.
--- 305,309 -----
result in a keyboard lock and graphics mode on someone else's
! terminal. You should also try to avoid the use of tabs, too, since
! they may also be interpreted differently on terminals other than
! your own.
--
Gene Spafford
NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center,
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf