Path: bloom-beacon.mit.edu!hookup!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!deshaw.com!do-not-use-path-to-reply Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 23:27:09 GMT Supersedes: Expires: Fri, 15 Apr 1994 23:27:08 GMT Message-ID: Approved: netannounce@deshaw.com (Mark Moraes) From: netannounce@deshaw.com (Mark Moraes) Subject: Changes to "Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on Netiquette" Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers,news.answers Reply-To: brad@clarinet.com Followup-To: news.newusers.questions Lines: 60 Xref: bloom-beacon.mit.edu news.announce.newusers:419 news.answers:16421 Original-author: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) Archive-name: emily-postnews/diff Last-change: 15 Mar 94 by scs@eskimo.com (Steve Summit) *** /tmp/T0a05414 Tue Mar 15 18:27:00 1994 --- last/emily.n Tue Mar 15 15:58:49 1994 *************** *** 2,6 **** Subject: Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on Netiquette Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers,news.answers ! Reply-to: brad@looking.on.ca Followup-to: news.newusers.questions --- 2,6 ---- Subject: Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on Netiquette Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers,news.answers ! Reply-to: brad@clarinet.com Followup-to: news.newusers.questions *************** *** 7,11 **** Original-author: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) Archive-name: emily-postnews/part1 ! Last-change: 30 Nov 91 by brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) --- 7,11 ---- Original-author: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) Archive-name: emily-postnews/part1 ! Last-change: 15 Mar 94 by scs@eskimo.com (Steve Summit) *************** *** 322,329 **** A: Cross post that question to the Atari and Amiga groups. It's an interesting and novel question that I am sure they would love to ! investigate in those groups. There is no need to read the groups in ! advance or examine the "frequently asked question" lists to see if the ! topic has already been dealt with. In fact, you don't need to read ! the group at all, and you can tell people that in your query. ------ --- 322,338 ---- A: Cross post that question to the Atari and Amiga groups. It's an interesting and novel question that I am sure they would love to ! investigate in those groups. In fact, post your question at once, ! to as many technical groups as you can think of, concluding your ! request with the line "Please reply by mail, as I do not follow this ! group." (No one will find such a statement impertinent; remember, ! the net is a resource to help you.) ! ! There is no need to read the groups in advance or examine the ! "frequently asked question" lists to see if the topic has already ! been dealt with. Any such warnings are for people without your ! innate sense of netiquette, and whose uninspired questions are bound ! to be repetitive. Your question is sure to be unique; no point ! checking the list to see if the answer might be there already. How ! could it be, when you only just thought of the question? ------