Compuserve's Usenet gateway is just opening its doors. Compuserve's bigger than AOL or Genie or Delphi, and harder to use than two of them. Also, millions of freshmen, for the first time, have been exposed to hundreds of "popular" media articles on how "hip" the Internet is. They'll all be expecting some rad-i-k00l fun. I predict that these two factors will not only make this the biggest new influx of September users that Usenet's ever seen, but also the most interesting. People who troll for newbies will probably have scads of evil fun. It seems to have started already. Therefore, I would like to remind people: While we may seem to have a virtually inexhaustible supply of new users this September, don't troll the living daylights out of them immediately! Ration your trolling so that we may still have clueless users to pick on in March. And above all, *don't* give them any tips! The last thing we'd want them to do is to become sophisticated, serious users before we can take advantage of them! -- K.