From: gibbsm@ll.mit.edu (MargAret D Gibbs)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps
Subject: ALL: Pointers to more info Mini-FAQ
Summary: Frequently Asked Question re Pointers
Keywords: pointers more info on USENET
Date: 27 Jan 93 20:32:06 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory



This is an experiment aimed towards people who don't read the long,
monthly FAQ (Frequently Asked Question list) for one reason or another, 
even though it could help them solve their problems!  I am going to 
post some of the topics covered in the FAQ separately, and not all on 
one day.  Hopefully the shorter articles will encourage more people to 
become familiar with these topics.

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Last-posted:  11/4/92
changes since last posting: none

Pointers to more information for new posters (and old!)

There is a lot more useful information available on the usenet network 
which is not contained in the scope of this FAQ.  

The news.announce.newusers newsgroup contains explanatory postings for 
new users.  Its purpose is to provide a base set of information with 
which all participants in the USENET should be familiar in order to make 
the USENET (and r.a.t.s.!) a better place for all of us.

If you have not already done so, you are strongly encouraged to read
these postings before posting any messages.  In particular, the following 
postings in news.announce.newusers are especially useful for new users:
        A Primer on How to Work With the Usenet Community
        Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
        Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on Netiquette
        Hints on writing style for Usenet
        Rules for posting to Usenet
        What is Usenet?

The articles in news.announce.newusers are posted in such a way that
each version should stay around at each site until the new version is
posted.  However, some sites are configured incorrectly so that this
does not occur.  If the articles listed above do not appear in the
news.announce.newusers newsgroup at your site, you can get copies of
them using email.  Simply send an email message to
mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu containing any or all of:
send usenet/news.answers/usenet-primer/part1
send usenet/news.answers/usenet-faq/part1
send usenet/news.answers/emily-postnews/part1
send usenet/news.answers/usenet-writing-style/part1
send usenet/news.answers/posting-rules/part1
send usenet/news.answers/what-is-usenet/part1

Other good sources of information on the USENET network are the
newsgroups news.newusers.questions (be sure to read its weekly FAQ
before posting a question yourself), and news.software.readers
(for newsreader-specific questions).  Also, news.answers contains
most of the FAQ's posted to each newsgroup, including the soaps-faq
and soaps-abbrevs postings.  Happy hunting!
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The complete soaps-faq is available through anonymous ftp from 
pit-manager.mit.edu under /pub/usenet/news.answers/tv/soaps/faq, 
or send email to mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu with 
"send /pub/usenet/news.answers/tv/soaps/faq" in the body of the 
message.  Send comments, corrections, additions to me, questions 
to the newsgroup (I don't know everything and can't answer 
everything). THANKS.

-- 
Margaret D. Gibbs              "Practice random kindness and 
Assistant Staff	                 senseless acts of beauty"
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
gibbsm@ll.mit.edu
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