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- From: check.the.signature@nospam.ualberta.ca (Art Mulder)
- Newsgroups: rec.woodworking,news.answers,rec.answers
- Subject: rec.woodworking Introduction FAQ (updated: 22/Jun/98)
- Supersedes: <ww-intro_906970321@rockpile.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- Date: 5 Oct 1998 08:12:11 GMT
- Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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- Summary: An introduction to the newsgroup, pointer to resources, etc.
- Keywords: FAQ introduction
- Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu rec.woodworking:295135 news.answers:141844 rec.answers:44319
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- Archive-name: woodworking/introduction
- Last-modified: 22 Jun 1998
- Posting-Frequency: weekly
- URL: http://www.ualberta.ca/~amulder/wood/rec.ww.Introduction.txt
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- |Here's a three line summary that covers almost every situation: |
- | Read the FAQ's, lurk, listen, and learn. Check www.dejanews.com |
- | for frequently discussed topics. Use good titles on your posts. |
- | Refrain from "me too" posts. Handle personal matters via email. |
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-
- CONTENTS:
- 1) Where are the FAQ's
- 2) Where are the WWW archive sites
- 3) Where are rec.woodworking articles archived?
- 4) Pointers to some related newsgroups and resources.
- 5) Pointers for Beginners
- 5.1) Posting Binaries
-
- This FAQ is intended to point readers to woodworking resources
- available on the Internet. The newsgroup sees a lot of repeat
- traffic; please check out these resources before posting.
-
- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------
- 1) The following relevant FAQ's are available:
-
- rec.woodworking Introduction <This Document>
- rec.woodworking Frequently Requested Addresses
- rec.woodworking Steambending wood Frequently asked Questions
- rec.woodworking Electric Motors Frequently asked Questions
- rec.woodworking Frequently Requested Tool Reviews
- rec.woodworking Frequently Asked Questions
- Electrical Wiring FAQ [Part 1/ Part 2]
- FAQ: Crib and Cradle Safety Regulations
- FAQ: Hand Tools
- Cabinet Saw FAQ
-
- These FAQ's are posted regularly (usually monthly) to this newsgroup.
- Most are also crossposted to news.answers and rec.answers. A well
- configured site should keep all postings to the *.answers news groups
- for at least 30 days before expiring them. Therefore, you should
- always be able to find these FAQ's in your news spool. (If you
- can't, ask your sysadmin, but read on, there are other options.)
-
- There exist several Usenet FAQ archive sites. To find out more about
- them and how to access them, please see the "Introduction to the
- *.answers newsgroups" posting in the group news.answers.
-
- One main WWW FAQ archive site is at: http://www.faqs.org/
-
- The "main" rec.woodworking archive is maintained by Jim Roche, and
- can be accessed at
- http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/roche/wood.html
- ftp://ftp.cs.rochester.edu/pub/archives/rec.woodworking/
-
- In addition to those "general purpose" FAQ's, more focussed special
- purpose documents (eg: a Workbench FAQ, Wood toxicity table, etc)
- are also available, and continually being developed. Browse some
- of the Woodworking web pages (like Jim Roche's above) to find them.
-
- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------
- 2) Woodworking information on the WWW:
-
- There are many Woodworking pages on the WWW. I can't expect to keep
- track of all of them, so here are just a few links to get you started.
- Check them for further links to other Woodworking pages, or check an
- indexing service like Yahoo or Lycos.
-
- http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/roche/wood.html
- - Jim Roches' pages -- the "main" rec.woodworking archive
- http://www.kiva.net/~rjbrown/w5/wood.html
- - Robert Brown's "W^5: WoodWorking on the World Wide Web"
- http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~alf/en/en.html
- - Allan Fisher's "The Electronic Neanderthal" (Hand tool focus)
-
- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------
- 3) Where are rec.woodworking articles archived?
-
- There are two main services (that I am aware of) that archive
- rec.woodworking articles. Between the two of them you can search
- through a year or more worth of archived postings. These archives
- are a wonderful way to look up old posts, and avoid restarting a
- discussion that just got finished.
-
- 3.1) Dejanews Research Service http://www.dejanews.com/
-
- Dejanews archives many Usenet newsgroups. Last time I checked they
- had over 3 years of rec.woodworking archived.
-
- 3.2) Alta Vista http://altavista.digital.com/
-
- Alta Vista is a Research project of Digital's Palo Alto labs.
- They provide a full-text index of over 13,000 USENET newsgroups,
- and also a full-text index to over 16,000,000 web pages.
-
- They index 'current' news -- which seems to amount to roughly a
- month of rec.woodworking, as near as I could discover. This is
- still a very useful archive to search for recent rec.ww articles.
-
- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------
- 4) Pointers to some related newsgroups and resources.
-
- Perhaps this newsgroup's focus isn't quite what you are looking for.
- If so, Maybe one of these other newsgroups will have what you are
- looking for.
-
- comp.home.automation Home automation devices, setup, sources, etc.
- misc.consumers Consumer interests, product reviews, etc.
- misc.consumers.house Discussion about owning and maintaining a house.
- alt.home.repair Created by someone who didn't know about m.c.h
- alt.building.* There are 10 or so building-industry groups.
- rec.crafts.metalworking All aspects of working with metal.
- rec.crafts.carving Carving and its techniques.
- rec.crafts.woodturning Woodturning and turned objects.
-
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- 5) Some Pointers for Beginners
-
- If you are a complete beginner to the whole world of Usenet
- (electronic news), I STRONGLY[1] encourage you to make the
- time to read the handful of very informative postings in the
- 'news.announce.newusers' newsgroup. They are an invaluable help.
-
- [1] In fact, when they finally name me King Of The Internet, no
- one will be allowed to post to Usenet until they have passed a
- reading comprehension test to show that they have read the ~5
- main FAQ's in news.announce.newusers. :-)
-
- rec.woodworking has a fair amount of traffic. To those people who
- have trouble with the volume of this group, a few suggestions that
- may help:
-
- Learn and use a good-quality newsreader, like tin, trn, nn,
- and others. These all have powerful display mechanisms that
- can show you "threads" of conversation, searching, sorting, and
- the ability to automatically select or deselect articles (aka
- "kill files"). A good newsreader makes it much easier to read
- a high-volume newsgroup.
-
- If your newsreader can't follow threads or doesn't have automatic
- selection/killing of articles then...
-
- Your Software Is Broken. Fix It.
-
- [paraphrased from one of Chris Lewis' well written postings.]
-
- 5.1) Posting Binaries
-
- The question has come up recently about posting binaries to the
- rec.woodworking newsgroup.
-
- I quote briefly from the FAQ "How to find the right place to post"
- which is posted to the news.announce.newusers newsgroup. See that
- FAQ for a more full explanation.
- (You HAVE read all of those FAQ's, haven't you!?)
-
- "There are many newsgroups dedicated to posting various sorts of
- binary files, such as images, computer software, etc. These are
- gathered under the alt.binaries.* and comp.binaries.* hierarchies.
- (There are also some local binaries hierarchies, such as
- de.alt.binaries.*) These groups are the only places where you
- should ever post a file that is not directly human-readable,
- such as pictures, software, or even Microsoft Word files"
-
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