mp (01/25/83)
Rather than reposting the (rather large) netiquette article to net.news or net.general every month merely to be sure everyone sees it, how about this: As part of the netnews source, include the netiquette article and a few other informative ones, such as a list of newsgroups and a short site map. The shell script that installs netnews would post these articles to a group such as "beginners" (net.beginners, maybe, if we want to add items to it occasionally). These articles would have infinite expiration dates, and this newsgroup would be the first in the active file, so the first thing people read when they get onboard netnews would be these articles. Note that it would also be easy to re-read these articles at any time by simply typing "readnews -x". Mark
ee161ln (02/02/83)
I like the idea of net.beginners vary much, as recient newcommer to the net it would have made life a whole lot easier! Don Coleman UC @ San Diego UUCP: ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdcssu3!ee161ln
davidson (02/06/83)
If we want to get strict, inews can easily check to see if a submitter has read everything in net.beginner before allowing the person to post anything! -Greg