Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!gatech!ncar!ames!oliveb!pyramid!prls!philabs!sbcs!bnlux0!abrams From: abrams@bnlux0.bnl.gov (The Ancient Programmer) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: News.announce.newuser seems to be empty Message-ID: <606@bnlux0.bnl.gov> Date: 29 Aug 88 20:22:35 GMT References: <20421@watmath.waterloo.edu> <1070@cfa214.cfa250.harvard.edu> <13498@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <4712@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <133@carpet.WLK.COM> Reply-To: abrams@bnlux0.UUCP (The Ancient Programmer) Distribution: na Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, N.Y. Lines: 14 In article <133@carpet.WLK.COM> bill@ssbn.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy) writes: >I vote to keep the "recordings" coming even though no one asked for a vote. I agree. All of our new users are forced to at least look at news.announce.newusers. >I would be curious to know why the diffs are sent out when they just update >the old ones to the current versions. Do some sites actually apply the diffs I think that the diffs are usefull tools for those of us who have read the articles already and simply wish to see if any significant changes have been made. -- INTERNET: abrams@bnlux0.bnl.gov BITNET: abrams@bnlux0.BITNET UUCP: ...philabs!sbcs!bnlux0!abrams