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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>
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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.

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