Transcription: As I mentioned earlier, there is no central control over the Internet and its newsgroups. Therefore, anyone can post any article to any newsgroup. Usenet users are strongly encouraged to follow a set of guidelines for proper behavior when posting articles. These guidelines are referred to as netiquette. When these guidelines are followed, newsgroups can be very valuable and entertaining. When they're not, they can degrade into utter chaos. Netiquette is guided by common sense. The one underlying principle is that users of newsgroups do not want to have to wade through dozens of articles that h ...