• Welcome to newsgroups and Usenet!

    From NNQ Moderation Team@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 1 07:00:00 2025
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    Welcome to newsgroups and Usenet!

    The newsgroups news.announce.newusers and news.newusers.questions
    are intended as resources for newcomers to newsgroups.
    News.announce.newusers is a "read-only" newsgroup with a collection
    of basic information about newsgroups. News.newusers.questions is a
    discussion newsgroup where you can post questions about newsgroups
    and (hopefully!) get answers.

    This posting is one of a set of standard informational articles
    that are cross-posted regularly to news.newusers.questions and news.announce.newusers. They contain general information about
    newsgroups and pointers to further sources of information. The
    current articles in this set are:

    Welcome to newsgroups and Usenet!
    What newsgroups are and how they work
    Common questions about using newsgroups

    If you are reading this article in news.announce.newusers, please
    note that this group is strictly moderated and does not accept
    ordinary postings. If you try to post a follow-up (response) to
    one of these articles, it will automatically appear only in news.newusers.questions. If you try to post a new message (that
    is not a follow-up) in news.announce.newusers, it will
    automatically be rejected.

    If you want to post questions or comments about this article,
    please post them in news.newusers.questions instead.

    If you would like to add a new article to this set, please contact
    the news.newusers.questions Moderation Board at <nnq-request@nan.users.panix.com>, or post to news.newusers.questions.
    We welcome contributions and suggestions, provided that they complement
    the existing articles appropriately.

    In general, before posting in news.newusers.questions, as with any
    other online forum, you should first try to find the answer to
    your question yourself. Possible sources include:

    + Your newsreader software's documentation
    + Your Internet service provider's or newsgroup service
    provider's support staff
    + The news.newusers.questions web site
    <https://www.big-8.org/wiki/News.newusers.questions>
    + A search engine such as <https://www.google.com/> or
    <https://www.bing.com/>

    Also, news.newusers.questions is specifically for questions and
    answers about using newsgroups and other general Internet
    services. If you post a question about some other topic, you are
    likely to be redirected to other newsgroups or other sources of
    information on that topic.

    This article was last revised on 18 September 2024.

    --
    The NNQ Moderation Board <nnq-request@nan.users.panix.com>

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