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- From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford)
- Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers,news.answers
- Subject: Introduction to news.announce
- Message-ID: <spaf-intro_719471655@cs.purdue.edu>
- Date: 19 Oct 92 05:14:17 GMT
- Expires: 18 Dec 92 17:14:15 GMT
- Followup-To: news.newusers.questions
- Organization: Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ.
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- Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU
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- Archive-name: news-announce-intro/part1
- Original-author: mark@stargate.com (Mark Horton)
- Last-change: 23 Sept 1992 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
-
- The news.announce hierarchy contains the four moderated newsgroups
- news.announce.important, news.announce.newgroups,
- news.announce.newusers, and news.announce.conferences.
-
- "news.announce.important" is a newsgroup for just what it says it is --
- important announcements. It is intended to be read by everyone on
- Usenet, although nobody is forced to subscribe. To post to
- news.announce.important, send mail to the moderator at
- "announce@stargate.com". Some netnews implementations will
- automatically mail to the moderator anything posted instead of
- attempting to post it directly. If the message is appropriate, it will
- be posted by the moderator; if not, the moderator will suggest a more
- appropriate place to post it or a better way to go about the same
- goal.
-
- Discussions in news.announce.important are explicitly forbidden, and
- the volume of traffic will be kept low enough to keep people from
- feeling a need to unsubscribe. Usenet administrators for each site
- should make a point of reading news.announce.important.
-
- The current policy is that news.announce.important submissions must be:
-
- (a) short - preferably they should fit on one crt screen, including headers.
- (b) important enough to at least have their header shown to everyone on the
- net. The posting should be more of benefit to the net than to the poster.
- (c) not posted to any other newsgroup - news.announce.important by itself is
- supposed to be sufficient to reach everybody, and nobody should have to
- read an announcement more than once.
- (d) signed - the author should be clearly evident.
- (e) not commercial, political, or religious in nature.
-
- news.announce.newgroups exists for announcements of either the
- creation or the consideration of a new newsgroup. All calls for
- votes, calls for discussions, vote results, and creation notices of
- all hierarchies should be posted to news.announce.newgroups.
- Submissions should be directed to announce-newgroups@uunet.uu.net (or to
- your nearest major site). Followups will be redirected to
- news.groups.
-
- Some messages will be repeated every month, in order to reach all
- newcomers. These messages will be placed in news.announce.newusers,
- which is also moderated. This makes it safe for experienced users who
- have already read these messages to unsubscribe to
- news.announce.newusers without missing anything new in
- news.announce.important. If you aren't familiar with the netnews
- guidelines in news.announce.newusers, please read them carefully.
- Your understanding of these rules will assure that you don't annoy the
- more than 1 million members of the net community (estimated) by
- unintentionally abusing the net, and will help you get more value from
- the net.
-
- news.announce.conference is for announcements of conference programs,
- calls for papers, and things of that kind. Submissions should be
- directed to nac@tekbspa.tss.com. Please keep Subject lines
- informative; if space permits, mention the topic and location there,
- and avoid acronyms unless very widely known.
-
-
- Mark Horton Gene Spafford
- news.announce.important moderator news.announce.newusers moderator
- mark@stargate.com spaf@cs.purdue.edu
-
- David Lawrence Dennis Page
- news.announce.newgroups moderator news.announce.conferences
- tale@uunet.uu.net denny@tekbspa.tss.com
- --
- Gene Spafford
- Software Engineering Research Center & Dept. of Computer Sciences
- Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-1398
- Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu phone: (317) 494-7825
-