Re: [UIP] Usenet Newbie Links

On 2008-09-04, Blinky the Shark <no.spam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sidney Lambe wrote:

[...]

As for the site you linked, I drilled down to a description of newsgroups
to find this lead-off: "Every Usenet server offers you directories,
called "Newsgroups". Newsgroups are like directories on your HD: They can
directly contain data or they can contain sub-directories."

http://www.tgos.org/newbie/

I was not impressed.

That is a rather odd and confusing description, but the site as a whole
isn't that bad.

I usually plug this in when I want to help a newbie get up to speed:

Newcomers to newsgroups should start here

<http://computer.howstuffworks.com/newsgroup.htm>

and here

<http://www.anta.net/misc/nnq/>, the Official Home Page of the
newsgroup called news.newusers.questions.


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