From sparkyfs!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!spaf Wed Apr 18 08:09:23 PDT 1990 Original-from: mark@stargate.com (Mark Horton) [Most recent change: 31 Mar 1990 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)] "news.announce.important" is a newsgroup for just what it says it is -- important announcements. It is intended to be read by everyone on Usenet, although nobody is forced to subscribe. To post to news.announce.important, send mail to the moderator at "announce@stargate.com". Some netnews implementations will automatically mail to the moderator anything posted instead of attempting to post it directly. If the message is appropriate, it will be posted by the moderator; if not, the moderator will suggest a more appropriate place to post it or a better way to go about the same goal. Discussions in news.announce.important are explicitly forbidden, and the volume of traffic will be kept low enough to keep people from feeling a need to unsubscribe. Usenet administrators for each site should make a point of reading news.announce.important. news.announce.newgroups exists for announcements of either the creation or the consideration of a new newsgroup. All calls for votes, calls for discussions, vote results, and creation notices of all hierarchies should be posted to news.announce.newgroups. Submissions should be directed to news-announce-newgroups@turbo.bio.net (or to your nearest backbone site). Followups will be redirected to news.groups. Some messages will be repeated every month, in order to reach all newcomers. These messages will be placed in news.announce.newusers, which is also moderated. This makes it safe for experienced users who have already read these messages to unsubscribe to news.announce.newusers without missing anything new in news.announce.important. If you aren't familiar with the netnews guidelines in news.announce.newusers, please read them carefully. Your understanding of these rules will assure that you don't annoy the more than 1 million members of the net community (estimated) by unintentionally abusing the net, and will help you get more value from the net. The current policy is that news.announce.important submissions must be: (a) short - preferably they should fit on one crt screen, including headers. (b) important enough to at least have their header shown to everyone on the net. The posting should be more of benefit to the net than to the poster. (c) not posted to any other newsgroup - news.announce.important by itself is supposed to be sufficient to reach everybody, and nobody should have to read an announcement more than once. (d) signed - the author should be clearly evident. (e) not commercial, political, or religious in nature. Mark Horton Gene Spafford news.announce.important moderator news.announce.newusers moderator mark@stargate.com spaf@purdue.edu Eliot Lear news.announce.newgroups moderator lear@turbo.bio.net -- Gene Spafford NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center, Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004 Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf