jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre) (09/20/85)
> One problem I see is that people aren't reading the net.announce.newusers > stuff. Maybe if they did they'd have a greater feel for the impact of > --- David Herron Doesn't the ADMSUB list (in defs.h) force subscription to all.announce? Of course the news administrator has to move that to the begining of the active list so that the user sees it first. Is the ADMSUB not working or is there a more basic problem? Jerry Aguirre @ Olivetti ATC {hplabs|fortune|idi|ihnp4|tolerant|allegra|tymix|olhqma}!oliveb!jerry
david@ukma.UUCP (David Herron, NPR Lover) (09/20/85)
In article <598@oliveb.UUCP> jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre) writes: >> One problem I see is that people aren't reading the net.announce.newusers >> stuff. Maybe if they did they'd have a greater feel for the impact of >> --- David Herron > >Doesn't the ADMSUB list (in defs.h) force subscription to all.announce? Yes it does. But people can always 'n' past it (and do, and complain about this stuff they don't wanna read). Or, if they're more intelligent, they can edit their .newsrc and force a unsubscription. It's either just that some people hate being told what to do, or it's too large a set of stuff all coming in at one time. (i.e. if it were split up more it might be read more) >Is the ADMSUB not working or is there a more basic problem? There's a more basic problem. (above) and ... you just have to look at all these people who are doing improper postings. NJ people posting for sale ads, and requests for baby sitters, and who knows what else. And it's going to the whole net! If they had read the announce.newusers stuff they'd know better, right? So they're not reading it. (Or, at least, they're not understanding it, not putting in the effort to understand it). -- --- David Herron --- ARPA-> ukma!david@ANL-MCS.ARPA --- UUCP-> {ucbvax,unmvax,boulder,oddjob}!anlams!ukma!david --- {ihnp4,decvax,ucbvax}!cbosgd!ukma!david Hackin's in me blood. My mother was known as Miss Hacker before she married!