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From: Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.MT.net>
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In-Reply-To: Gary Roberts <gary@wcs.uq.oz.au>
       "Re: Gating hackers into the newsgroups" (Apr 25,  9:58am)
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> If every `lurker' agreed to
> `adopt a newbie' and hold his/her hand until he/she got running, that
> should immediately reduce newbie traffic in both news and mail by
> transferring the traffic from the public lists to private e-mail.

*PLEASE* start doing this yesterday. :-)



Nate