This item is from the PC Hardware FAQ, by Willie Lim and Ralph Valentino with numerous contributions by others. (v1.25).
If you haven't done so, new users on the net should read news.announce.newusers. In particular, the following posts are a good idea:
A Primer on How to Work With The Usenet Community Answers to Frequently Asked Questions About Usenet Hints on Writing Style for Usenet Introduction to The *.answers Groups
This FAQ is currently posted to news.answers, comp.answers, comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.cd-rom, comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips, comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.comm, comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc, comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.networking, comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage, comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems, and comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video. All posts to news.answers are archived and are available via anonymous FTP, uucp and e-mail from the following locations:
FTP:
FTP is a way of copying file between networked computers. If you need help in using or getting started with FTP, send e-mail to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with send usenet/news.answers/ftp-list/faq as the body of the message.location: rtfm.mit.edu [18.181.0.24] directory: /pub/usenet/news.answers/pc-hardware-faq filenames: part1 to part5
location: ftp.uu.net [137.39.1.9] directory: /archive/usenet/news.answers/pc-hardware-faq filenames: part1.Z to part5.Z [use uncompress]
location: nic.switch.ch [130.59.1.40] directory: info_service/Usenet/periodic-postings filenames: [Check info_service/Usenet/00index]
UUCP:
location: uunet!/archive/usenet/news.answers/pc-hardware-faq/ filenames: part1.Z to part5.ZE-mail: Send email to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu containing these lines: send usenet/news.answers/pc-hardware-faq/part1 ... send usenet/news.answers/pc-hardware-faq/part5
You can find a dozen or more sites in the US, Europe and Japan that store the FAQ and archives for this various newsgroups by using the Internet search programs, Archie or Wais.
 
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