From: nnqadmp2@presby.edu (NNQ Moderation Board)
Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers
Subject: Welcome to newsgroups and Usenet!
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Welcome to newsgroups and Usenet!  The newsgroup news.announce.newusers
contains a collection of articles with basic information about newsgroups
and pointers to further sources of information.  If you are a newcomer to
newsgroups, it will be to your advantage to read the articles here.

News.announce.newusers is intended strictly for these basic informational
articles.  Please do not try to post your own messages in this newsgroup;
they will simply be returned to you.

Also, please send e-mail to us only if you have specific corrections to
the material in these articles, or other administrative questions about
news.announce.newusers.  For answers to other questions, please use the
following resources:

  + Your newsreader software's documentation
  + Your Internet service provider's support staff
  + The news.newusers.questions web site
       <http://members.fortunecity.com/nnqweb/>
  + A web search engine such as <http://www.google.com/>
  + The newsgroup news.newusers.questions, for questions about newsgroups
  + Other appropriate newsgroups, for other kinds of questions

This message is posted weekly, to ensure that it is available at all times
on most news servers.  Most of the other articles are posted monthly:

    What newsgroups are and how they work
    Common questions about using newsgroups
    FAQ: How to find people's E-mail addresses
    Introduction to the *.answers newsgroups

If the most recent set of postings has expired from your news
server, you can find copies at

    <http://web.presby.edu/~nnqadmin/nan/>

This article was last revised on 18 December 2003.

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