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This article is from the rec.arts.tv.soaps FAQ, by Margaret D. Gibbs gibbsm@ll.mit.edu with numerous contributions by
others.
26. Pointers to more information for new posters (and old!) (rec.arts.tv.soaps)
There is a lot more useful information available on the usenet network
which is not contained in the scope of this FAQ.
The news.announce.newusers newsgroup contains explanatory postings for
new users. Its purpose is to provide a base set of information with
which all participants in the USENET should be familiar in order to make
the USENET (and r.a.t.s.!) a better place for all of us.
If you have not already done so, you are strongly encouraged to read
these postings before posting any messages. In particular, the following
postings in news.announce.newusers are especially useful for new users:
A Primer on How to Work With the Usenet Community
Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on Netiquette
Hints on writing style for Usenet
Rules for posting to Usenet
What is Usenet?
The articles in news.announce.newusers are posted in such a way that
each version should stay around at each site until the new version is
posted. However, some sites are configured incorrectly so that this
does not occur. If the articles listed above do not appear in the
news.announce.newusers newsgroup at your site, you can get copies of
them using email. Simply send an email message to
mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu containing any or all of:
send usenet/news.answers/usenet/primer/part1
send usenet/news.answers/usenet/faq/part1
send usenet/news.answers/usenet/emily-postnews/part1
send usenet/news.answers/usenet/writing-style/part1
send usenet/news.answers/usenet/posting-rules/part1
send usenet/news.answers/usenet/what-is/part1
Other good sources of information on the USENET network are the
newsgroups news.newusers.questions (be sure to read its weekly FAQ
before posting a question yourself), and news.software.readers
(for newsreader-specific questions). Also, news.answers contains
most of the FAQ's posted to each newsgroup, including the soaps-faq
and soaps-abbrevs postings. Happy hunting!
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