This site contains various items relating to the newsgroups news.announce.newusers and news.newusers.questions. These are moderated newsgroups whose official moderation addresses are on this server.
Posted to news.announce.newusers on 7 September 2007
The newsgroup news.announce.newusers contains a set of basic informational postings that should be read by all newcomers to newsgroups. These postings are repeated periodically, so that they should usually be available on most news servers. No question/answer or discussion postings are permitted in this newsgroup; such postings should be made in news.newusers.questions instead. Attempted postings to news.announce.newusers will generally be returned to their senders.
news.announce.newusers was created in the so-called "Great Renaming" of 1986, which created the first seven of the "Big Eight" newsgroup hierarchies (comp, misc, news, rec, sci, soc and talk; humanities came later). Gene Spafford served as its first moderator. In 1993, he transferred responsibility for the group to Mark Moraes, who in turn transferred it to the news.newusers.questions Moderation Board in 2001.
The n.n.q Moderation Board is currently reviewing the standard news.announce.newusers informational postings, and will post updated versions and new articles.
Comments and suggestions about the contents of news.announce.newusers should be posted to news.newusers.questions for public discussion, or alternatively e-mailed to nnq-adm at presby.edu.
The newsgroup news.newusers.questions is for questions, answers, and discussion about how to use newsgroups and other Internet services. It is lightly moderated, mostly automatically by a software robot, mainly to block advertising, inappropriate announcements, and simple "test" messages.
news.newusers.questions was also created in the Great Renaming of 1986, but was originally unmoderated. In 1997 it was converted to a moderated group. For more information about news.newusers.questions, see:
If you have questions relating to this site, or about the operation of news.newusers.questions, please send them to nnq-adm at presby.edu.
This Web site and the moderation software for news.newusers.questions are located at Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina USA. The news.newusers.questions Moderation Board thanks Presbyterian College for permission to use its facilities.
This page is maintained by Jon Bell (jbell at presby.edu), who is directly responsible for its content. Last updated: 13 October 2003.