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  S'more "newbie welcome" thoughts
 
We started talking about this before but here are a few more thoughts regarding how to make newbies more comfy with lugnet, and making a first-time visit be a nice and not a frightening experience. I understand that Jeremy Sproat or Todd or both (?) (...) (25 years ago, 1-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
 
  Re: S'more "newbie welcome" thoughts
 
What about a newsgroup -> lugnet.newbies, something that newbies can go to and ask those questions that they want to know, but would feel bad about wasting everyones time with, anywhere else? Maybe mentiond in the post-setup page and confirmation (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: S'more "newbie welcome" thoughts
 
(...) Great idea....with links to the acronym and abbreviation pages would be ral helpful... I would suggest Lugnet.orientation (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
 
  Re: S'more "newbie welcome" thoughts
 
(...) Great idea! I think I came up with the (homepage) idea sometime after Larry mentioned that new people are being put off by the massiveness of the newsgroups (maybe it wasn't Larry, I can't remember). So maybe they get freaked out right off the (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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