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- NEW USERS PLEASE READ
- ======================----------------------------------------------------
-
- If you're new to news.groups, or new to Usenet, this document will
- probably help you deal with this newsgroup. Most new Usenet users are
- best off avoiding this group altogether, unless here for a specific
- purpose. Your service provider may have neglected to tell you this, but
- there are *many, many* newsgroups on Usenet -- not just one group which
- happens to be named news.groups.
-
- news.groups is for discussion of the creation of new newsgroups. It is
- therefore *extremely* high in both noise (off-topic messages) and flames
- (arguments/insults) because almost every ongoing political dispute on
- Usenet ends up here sooner or later.
-
- This is *NOT* the newsgroup to read to learn about Usenet.
-
- This is *NOT* the newsgroup to read for announcements of new groups.
-
- This is *NOT* the newsgroup to read for information about newsgroups.
-
- This is *NOT* the newsgroup to read for questions about newsgroups.
-
- If your ISP's documentation says otherwise, your ISP's documentation is
- simply /wrong/. Please complain to your technical support people and have
- it fixed so that your fellow users there are not similarly confused.
-
- If you are not already familiar with Usenet, the place to start is
- news.announce.newusers. If you are interested in hearing about every new
- newsgroup which is proposed, read news.announce.newgroups. If you want to
- read information about existing groups, read news.groups.reviews. If you
- have questions about where to talk about various topics or what groups are
- available, read news.groups.questions.
-
- Again, news.groups is explicitly for discussion and arguments about
- newsgroup creation, which can be a *highly* political process. It is
- definitely *not* something I would encourage new users to jump into the
- middle of -- and if you do, please read the comments for a while first, to
- make sure that you understand what everybody's talking about.
-
- Thank you for your time, and thank you for redirecting your comments and
- questions to more appropriate forums.
-
- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
-
- This document is heavily based upon a message originally posted by Russ
- Allbery <rra@cs.stanford.edu>. It was also posted for a time by Joe
- Bernstein <joe@sfbooks.com>, and is now posted automagically by a program
- written by J.D. Falk <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>.
-
- The entire contents of this document is Copyright 1996 by Russ Allbery,
- Joe Bernstein, and J.D. Falk, all rights reserved. Permission is granted
- for it to be reproduced electronically on any system connected to the
- various networks which make up the Internet, USENET, and FidoNet so long
- as it is reproduced in its entirety, unedited, and with this copyright
- notice intact.
-
- For permission to quote from or reproduce any portion of this message
- outside of Usenet, please contact J.D. Falk <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>.
-
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