What does \"rc\" stand for?
Sid Shapiro
ss at wanginst.UUCP
Fri Apr 5 03:31:15 AEST 1985
> Come on now.. if you don't want rehashes of
> "old" info, prehaps a solution to the problem should be found.
A solution HAS certainly been found - it is called
net.announce.newusers . However, with the version of news that we run
(2.10.2) we had to mess with it so that the default and mandatory
newsgroups for new users had net.announce.newusers included in the
list, and BEFORE any other group - even any local groups. This, of
course, means that the first set of messages that any new news
user sees are the welcome, etiquette, frequently asked questions, etc.
ones. Of course if the user doesn't read them, then whose fault is
it? (I am not implying that <ras> might have ignored reading such a
message.)
I strongly recommend that all news administrators arrange things in a
similar manner. Unless, of course, someone has a better idea, since I
frequently don't know what the heck I am talking about.
Cheers,
--
Sid Shapiro -- Wang Institute of Graduate Studies
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