Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site t4test.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!hao!noao!amdcad!decwrl!sun!qubix!t4test!chip From: chip@t4test.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: Instructions for net.general (quotes at end) Message-ID: <1328@t4test.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 12:23:06 EST Article-I.D.: t4test.1328 Posted: Thu Feb 7 12:23:06 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Feb-85 03:58:18 EST References: <336@ssc-vax.UUCP> <711@cbosgd.UUCP> <3283@alice.UUCP> <354@ssc-vax.UUCP> Reply-To: chip@t12tst.UUCP Organization: Intel Peripheral Comp Mfg, Santa Clara Lines: 20 A while back there was a discussion on how to stem the tide of commonly asked suggestions to a newsgroup. I guess net.audio is really suspect to this. I see a parallel between the "commonly asked questions" and the "misuse/abuse of newsgroups" problems. Someone suggested creating a handful of magic article numbers which would contain the answers to these common questions. The magic articles would always be there and would be the first thing a new user would see in the newsgroup. I made a suggestion which would also work on this problem: use a long expiration date. If a description of net.general were written and posted with a long expiration date, new users would see it as their very first article once the exipration cycle takes hold. No messy inews hacks--no need to go to other newsgroups. -- Chip Rosenthal, Intel/Santa Clara {cbosgd,idi,intelca,icalqa,kremvax,qubix,ucscc} ! {t4test,t12tst} ! {chip,news}