On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:15:28 +0000, Malissa Baldwin
wrote:

RFC 1855, Section 3, Paragraph 1 states:
- Read both mailing lists and newsgroups for one to two
months before you post anything. This helps you to
get an understanding of the culture of the group.

Good advice in the bad old days, where Usenet server retention was a
few days, there were no archive sites, and mailing lists didn't
archive their postings. One had to read for several months to get a
clue what the list was about, how the protocol works, and who were the
luminaries and idiots. These daze, Google Groups, some web sites, and
most mailing lists, have many months of archived postings. It's easy
enough to go back and read a months worth of old postings.

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Jeff Liebermann
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