Welcome to Usenet The newsgroup news announce.newusers contains a lot of
introductory information about Usenet  All new users should read and fully
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 new  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 are 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 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
with the following in the body of the message  Note the address carefully
please do NOT send these requests to me

send What_is_Usenet
send What_is_Usenet
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
quit

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