On 8 Dec 2004 00:25:15 -0800, (John Clear) wrote in
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Emily Postnews is still recommended reading, but of course no one
bothers any more.

A large part of the reason "no one bothers any more" is a result of
the current crop of news reading client software failing to impose the
mandate that the monthly postings in news.newusers
news://news.newusers.questions be visited before permitting the
reading of articles in other newsgroups. IIRC, rn and trn were
distributed with such an imperative.

It's interesting how such a simple omission can assist in
precipitating devolution. As the recent message below indicates, AOL
is not part of the solution either:


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