Subject: Welcome to Usenet!

All FAQs in Directory: usenet/welcome
All FAQs posted in: news.announce.newusers
Source: Usenet Version

Archive-name: usenet/welcome/part1
Last-change:  5 Dec 1995 by netannounce@deshaw.com (Mark Moraes)
Changes-posted-to: news.misc,news.answers

Welcome to Usenet!  The newsgroup news.announce.newusers contains a lot of
introductory information about Usenet.  All new users should read and fully
understand all the documents in news.announce.newusers before trying to
post messages to Usenet or create new Usenet groups.  This may take a
while, but it will help you find your way around Usenet much more easily.

This short message is repeated three times a week to ensure that it is
always available on your news system.  All other documents in
news.announce.newusers are repeated every two weeks and should stay around
for at least a month.  If you find news.announce.newusers empty (or cannot
figure out how to read documents in it), please contact the help desk,
customer support or news administrator on the computer system or service
that you're using and ask them for help.  Please do not send me e-mail
asking for help reading news on your computer system or service.

Please do not try to post or send any messages to news.announce.newusers.

This is the list of the documents that news.announce.newusers should
contain:

	What is Usenet?
	What is Usenet?  A second opinion.
	Rules for posting to Usenet
	Hints on writing style for Usenet
	A Primer on How to Work With the Usenet Community
	Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on Netiquette

	How to find the right place to post (FAQ)
	Introduction to news.announce
	A Guide to Social Newsgroups and Mailing Lists

	Introduction to the *.answers newsgroups
	FAQs about FAQs
	Anonymous FTP: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) List
	Advertising on Usenet: How To Do It, How Not To Do It
	Copyright Myths FAQ: 10 big myths about copyright explained
	Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Usenet

	How to Get Information about Networks
	How to become a Usenet site
	Usenet Software: History and Sources
	Guidelines on Usenet Newsgroup Names
	How to Create a New Usenet Newsgroup

If you don't see any of these documents in the newsgroup, you can ask for
them by sending mail to
	<mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu>
with the following in the body of the message.  Note the address carefully;
please do NOT send these requests to me.

setdir usenet-by-group/news.announce.newusers
send What_is_Usenet?
send What_is_Usenet?__A_second_opinion.
send Rules_for_posting_to_Usenet
send Hints_on_writing_style_for_Usenet
send A_Primer_on_How_to_Work_With_the_Usenet_Community
send Emily_Postnews_Answers_Your_Questions_on_Netiquette
send How_to_find_the_right_place_to_post_(FAQ)
send Introduction_to_news.announce
send A_Guide_to_Social_Newsgroups_and_Mailing_Lists
send Introduction_to_the_*.answers_newsgroups
send FAQs_about_FAQs
send Anonymous_FTP:_Frequently_Asked_Questions_(FAQ)_List
send Advertising_on_Usenet:_How_To_Do_It,_How_Not_To_Do_It
send Copyright_Myths_FAQ:_10_big_myths_about_copyright_explained
send Answers_to_Frequently_Asked_Questions_about_Usenet
send FAQ:_How_to_find_people_s_E-mail_addresses
send How_to_Get_Information_about_Networks
send How_to_become_a_Usenet_site
send Usenet_Software:_History_and_Sources
send Guidelines_on_Usenet_Newsgroup_Names
send How_to_Create_a_New_Usenet_Newsgroup
quit

You can also find these documents on the World Wide Web;  see
	http://www.netannounce.org/news.announce.newusers/

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