wombat@ccvaxa.UUCP (12/28/84)
The notes software provides for a "policy note" for every notefile (newsgroup). On the PLATO notesfile system, the policy note is used to explain what the notefile's intended use is, as well as any other information the notefile's directors (a notefile director is something like a Usenet moderator) think should be made generally available to readers. (For instance, the PLATO scifi policy note lists all the Darkover and Amber books in their correct orders, among other things.) I suspect that policy notes are rarely used by most sites, especially for networked files. I would guess that policy notes are currently not networked, but it probably wouldn't be hard to make that a director option. For the time being, anyway, interested sites running notes can create (and swap) their own policy notes and make sure their users read same. Wombat "I am not, nor have I ever been, Jan Howard Finder" ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!wombat
spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford) (01/02/85)
As the keeper and periodic poster of the articles appearing in
net.announce.newuser, let me observe that all of those articles have
required changes and updates in the last 6 months. As the network
changes and evolves, those articles may well require change, and
therefore any permanenet article scheme would require the ability
to update-in-place -- no easy task.
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Gene "7 months and counting" Spafford
The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
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