dana@ism780c.isc.com (Dana Jordan) (11/16/88)
Can anyone tell me how to get hold of this (netiquette) document? The system advised me (when I first tried to post a message to the net) to return to the top prompt of "rn" and type "g mod.announce.newusers". When I did so, the reply was that this group did not exist. What did I do wrong; or, more importantly, what can I do to access this file? thx, one and all... ...dana
karl@dinosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) (11/16/88)
You're suffering from an out-of-date rn help file. The proper newsgroup name is news.announce.newusers. --Karl
dana@ism780c.isc.com (Dana Jordan) (11/18/88)
In article <KARL.88Nov15225347@dinosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu> karl@dinosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes: >You're suffering from an out-of-date rn help file. The proper >newsgroup name is news.announce.newusers. > >--Karl Thanx to you and several others who sent me this response to my request for info re this "netiquette" help file. I still don't know, however, how to get around the fact that, when I (originally) tried to read "news.announce.newusers"the system responded by saying there were 0 files unread. I (stubbornly) tried to read them anyway (since nothing else had worked), but of course there were no articles to read. I can only assume that, if the file was there when I first got onto the system a few weeks ago, I scrolled thru it. (I was new to "rn" and thought of it like e-mail, where I customarily scroll thru files and save them to read in detail later when I have more time.) If this is what I (as a greenhorn re "rn") did, then of course the system regarded me as having "read" the article and then may have made it go away in conventional fashion. All this begs the question, then (at least for rn novices like me), as to how you regain access to an article that is intended to be read by future users. Is there no way to "grab" it again, even if I've already "read" it? Anyway, I assume none of this has created a major crisis because I've been sending replies out over the net and no one has yet threatened to send Hal or Sal after me or my little terminal pal. thanx again, guyz-- ...dana
jos@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Jos Vos) (11/21/88)
In article <19170@ism780c.isc.com> dana@ism780c.UUCP (Dana Jordan) writes: >Can anyone tell me how to get hold of this (netiquette) document? The group mod.announce.newusers is now called news.announce.newusers. A lot of net documents are posted there recently (and are reposted in an updated form every month). -- -- ###### Jos Vos ###### Internet jos@idca.tds.philips.nl ###### -- ###### ###### UUCP ...!mcvax!philapd!jos ######
karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) (11/22/88)
dana@ism780c.isc.com (Dana Jordan) writes:
I still don't
know, however, how to get around the fact that, when I (originally)
tried to read "news.announce.newusers"the system responded by
saying there were 0 files unread. I (stubbornly) tried to read
them anyway (since nothing else had worked), but of course there
were no articles to read.
The netiquette documents are re-posted on a monthly basis. Wait a
week or so, they'll show up by then. Make sure you stay subscribed to
news.announce.newusers.
All this begs the question, then (at least for rn novices like me),
as to how you regain access to an article that is intended to be
read by future users. Is there no way to "grab" it again, even if
I've already "read" it?
When all else fails:
cd /usr/spool/news/news/announce/newusers
more *
But more generally, rn allows you to jump to arbitrary articles (if
they're still in-spool) via either the `j' command or via marking the
relevant articles as `unread,' so that they will be re-offered to you.
Again, this depends on them still being around, which they might not
be. And again, the world won't fall apart if they're not, because
they'll come back next month.
--Karl