From: eugene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
Subject: [l/m 8/26/92] Reminders for old hands and new readers ([b|c]a.general)
Followup-To: poster
Organization: NAS Program, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 12:01:16 GMT
Reply-To: eugene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)

 Panel 1

	 Table of Contents of this Chain

 1	 Reminders on use of the *.general news.groups		<This panel>
 7	 General Help Reading News
 14	 Posting headers and cross-posting
 15	 Distribution Fields
 21	 Killfiles (with extreme prejudice)
 28	 Canceling posted news articles

 Welcome to both ba.general and ca.general.  If you are new to the net,
 please read this.  Just a bit of community memory.  (A reminder.)
 The purpose of these news.groups is for "general" announcements,
 local queries, and the like.  The purpose of these groups is NOT
 for continuing or extended discussions.
*** DO NOT POST ADS TO GENERAL.  READERS CONSIDER THIS AN UNFRIENDLY ACT.***
 A proposal is under evaluation to remove *.general groups.

 If you need HELP, ask a network guru (either in person, email, phone, etc.).
 Read the occasional postings to news.announce.newusers to learn The netiquette.
 Read a while first.  Get the rhythms and a good style.

 Consider trying email instead.  The Yellow Pages(tm), a phone, and a map
 can work wonders.

 Extended discussions on topics of political interest belong in the
 ca.politics and ba.politics groups.  ADS BELONG IN THE wanted, forsale,
 or market groups depending where you are.  These groups were formed due to
 the frequency of these specific posting types.  Use them.
 Special note to new users from BBSs like CompuServe:  The Usenet
 differs significantly from these services.  Discussions are not
 structured on the basis of who's logged on at the time (like CB).
 A person can see your note days after you post it and make a comment.
 So selection of newsgroups takes an important place.  Choose wisely.

 It is not generally a good idea to ask for medical or
 legal advice, those professions are regulated and licensed.  Advice from
 novices can lead you astray, and you have no legal recourse against them.
 If you need a precursor, misc.legal or sci.med with ba (or ca) distributions
 are better than general.

 Additionally we have:
 ba.announce		ba.food			ba.internet	
 ba.market.computers	ba.market.housing	ba.jobs.offered
 ba.market.misc		ba.market.vehicles	ba.motss
 ba.mountain-folk 	ba.music		ba.news	
 ba.news.config		ba.news.group		ba.news.stats
 ba.politics		ba.seminars		ba.singles
 ba.sports		ba.test			ba.transportation
 ba.wanted		ba.windows.x		ba.jobs.misc
 ba.weather		ba.dance		ba.broadcast
+ba.motorcycles

 Or in the Santa Cruz area

 scruz.events            scruz.general           scruz.test              
 scruz.politics		 scruz.sysops

 Or in the Los Angeles area:
 la.eats		la.general	la.news		la.seminars
 la.test

 Or in the Orange County area:
 oc.acm			oc.general	oc.test		oc.unix

 Or in the Sacramento area:
 sac.general	sac.swap	sac.test

 Or in the San Diego area:
 sdnet.cerfnet	sdnet.computing		sdnet.crl	sdnet.forsale
 sdnet.general	sdnet.jobs		sdnet.motss	sdnet.movies
 sdnet.talks	sdnet.test		sdnet.wanted

 Or state-wide
 ca.driving	ca.earthquakes	ca.environment	ca.general
 ca.news		ca.news.group	ca.politics	ca.unix
 ca.test		ca.wanted
 And the ever popular alt.california (state of Mind).  There may be more.

 MINIMIZE CROSS-POSTING.  Use Follow-up: and edit Newsgroups:/Subject: lines.
 Don't post multiple separate copies either. MINIMIZE and use F-Os.  If
 stringing newsgroups, the *.general groups should be added last.
 NEVER FOLLOW-UP DISCUSSION TO *.general.

 Kill-line:
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