Welcome to newsgroups and Usenet!
Jon Bell
and news.newusers.questions are intended as resources for newcomers to
newsgroups. News.announce.newusers is a "read-only" newsgroup with a
collection of basic information about newsgroups.
News.newusers.questions is a discussion newsgroup where you can post
questions about newsgroups and (hopefully!) get answers.
This posting is one of a set of standard informational articles that are
cross-posted regularly to news.newusers.questions and
news.announce.newusers. They contain general information about
newsgroups
and pointers to further sources of information. The current articles in
this set are:
Welcome to newsgroups and Usenet!
What newsgroups are and how they work
Common questions about using newsgroups
FAQ: How to find people's E-mail addresses
Introduction to the *.answers newsgroups
If you are reading this article in news.announce.newusers, please note
that this group is strictly moderated and does not accept ordinary
postings. If you try to post a follow-up (response) to one of these
articles, it will automatically appear only in news.newusers.questions.
If you try to post a new message (that is not a follow-up) in
news.announce.newusers, it will automatically be rejected.
If you want to post questions or comments about this article, please
post
them in news.newusers.questions instead.
If you would like to add a new article to this set, please contact the
news.newusers.questions Moderation Board <nnq...@presby.edu>, or post
to
news.newusers.questions. We welcome contributions and sugggestions,
provided that they complement the existing articles appropriately.
In general, before posting in news.newusers.questions, as with any other
online forum, you should first try to find the answer to your question
yourself. Possible sources include:
+ Your newsreader software's documentation
+ Your Internet service provider's or newsgroup service
provider's support staff
+ The news.newusers.questions web site <http://www.anta.net/misc/nna/>
+ A search engine such as <http://www.google.com/> or
<http://search.yahoo.com/>
Also, news.newusers.questions is specifically for questions and answers
about using newsgroups and other general Internet services. If you post
a
question about some other topic, you are likely to be redirected to
other
newsgroups or other sources of information on that topic.
This article was last revised on 2 December 2007.
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