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Summary

If you are new to the Usenet community and have questions about Usenet, newsgroups, posting, netiquette, spam, writing style for Usenet, articles, cross-posting, finding newsgroups, subscribing to newsgroups, creating newsgroups, or any other Usenet related inquiries, visit the newsgroup news.newusers.questions. A good place to start, before posting your question to the newsgroup, is with the information page at http://www.cs.uu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/finding-groups/general.html. Here you'll find the most common questions that newcomers to Usenet ask about moderated newsgroups and you'll also find links to other helpful information, and other newsgroups for newbies. After you've read the FAQ, use your news client's search function to go to the news.newusers.questions newsgroup and get the answers you need to get started in the wider world of Usenet. Some recent posts have addressed moderated versus un-moderated newsgroups, kill files, PAR2 files, formatting, binaries, news readers, finding people's email addresses, trolls, spam, Usenet history, email abuse, jargon, address munging, and many other topics important to the new Usenet user.