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- Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 08:00:03 GMT
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- From: netannounce@deshaw.com (Mark Moraes)
- Subject: Welcome to Usenet!
- Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers,news.answers
- Followup-To: news.newusers.questions
- Approved: netannounce@deshaw.com (Mark Moraes)
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- Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu news.announce.newusers:4419 news.answers:174084
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- Archive-name: usenet/welcome/part1
- Last-change: 5 Dec 1995 by netannounce@deshaw.com (Mark Moraes)
- Changes-posted-to: news.misc,news.answers
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- Welcome to Usenet! The newsgroup news.announce.newusers contains a lot of
- introductory information about Usenet. All new users should read and fully
- understand all the documents in news.announce.newusers before trying to
- post messages to Usenet or create new Usenet groups. This may take a
- while, but it will help you find your way around Usenet much more easily.
-
- This short message is repeated three times a week to ensure that it is
- always available on your news system. All other documents in
- news.announce.newusers are repeated every two weeks and should stay around
- for at least a month. If you find news.announce.newusers empty (or cannot
- figure out how to read documents in it), please contact the help desk,
- customer support or news administrator on the computer system or service
- that you're using and ask them for help. Please do not send me e-mail
- asking for help reading news on your computer system or service.
-
- Please do not try to post or send any messages to news.announce.newusers.
-
- This is the list of the documents that news.announce.newusers should
- contain:
-
- What is Usenet?
- What is Usenet? A second opinion.
- Rules for posting to Usenet
- Hints on writing style for Usenet
- A Primer on How to Work With the Usenet Community
- Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on Netiquette
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- How to find the right place to post (FAQ)
- Introduction to news.announce
- A Guide to Social Newsgroups and Mailing Lists
-
- Introduction to the *.answers newsgroups
- FAQs about FAQs
- Anonymous FTP: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) List
- Advertising on Usenet: How To Do It, How Not To Do It
- Copyright Myths FAQ: 10 big myths about copyright explained
- Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Usenet
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- How to Get Information about Networks
- How to become a Usenet site
- Usenet Software: History and Sources
- Guidelines on Usenet Newsgroup Names
- How to Create a New Usenet Newsgroup
-
- If you don't see any of these documents in the newsgroup, you can ask for
- them by sending mail to
- <mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu>
- with the following in the body of the message. Note the address carefully;
- please do NOT send these requests to me.
-
- setdir usenet-by-group/news.announce.newusers
- send What_is_Usenet?
- send What_is_Usenet?__A_second_opinion.
- send Rules_for_posting_to_Usenet
- send Hints_on_writing_style_for_Usenet
- send A_Primer_on_How_to_Work_With_the_Usenet_Community
- send Emily_Postnews_Answers_Your_Questions_on_Netiquette
- send How_to_find_the_right_place_to_post_(FAQ)
- send Introduction_to_news.announce
- send A_Guide_to_Social_Newsgroups_and_Mailing_Lists
- send Introduction_to_the_*.answers_newsgroups
- send FAQs_about_FAQs
- send Anonymous_FTP:_Frequently_Asked_Questions_(FAQ)_List
- send Advertising_on_Usenet:_How_To_Do_It,_How_Not_To_Do_It
- send Copyright_Myths_FAQ:_10_big_myths_about_copyright_explained
- send Answers_to_Frequently_Asked_Questions_about_Usenet
- send FAQ:_How_to_find_people_s_E-mail_addresses
- send How_to_Get_Information_about_Networks
- send How_to_become_a_Usenet_site
- send Usenet_Software:_History_and_Sources
- send Guidelines_on_Usenet_Newsgroup_Names
- send How_to_Create_a_New_Usenet_Newsgroup
- quit
-
- You can also find these documents on the World Wide Web; see
- http://www.netannounce.org/news.announce.newusers/
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