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From: kjfair@midway.uchicago.edu (Kenneth Fair)
Subject: Re: Trouble's a-brewin'
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Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 04:04:07 GMT
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In article <Dq0xot.I1C@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>,
svanegmo@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Stephen van Egmond) wrote:

>Some people say that the Net has no memory.  One of the Official Rules of 
>UseNet Posting is that you can't refer to information that was posted 
>more than a month ago in any post.  I think this is untrue.  The hackish 
>roots of Usenet are still readily apparent in a large portion of the 
>newsgroups; I can't imagine doing much worse than offering a stolen Infocom 
>game in areas where hackish memes still live.  You could be eaten by a 
>grue...

Weelllllll, unofficial really.  The only "official" rules are expressed
by the RFCs (Requests For Comments).  The "unofficial" rules can, of
course, be found in news.announce.newusers.

The "one month limit" is quickly becoming stale with the advent of
DejaNews anyway.  I'm not sure that's a good thing, though.

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