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DISCUSS NEWSGROUPS IN THE FORUM (Get the free help you need using Newsgroups. Ask any newsgroup-related question) USEFUL USENET RESOURCES (subtopics: Usenet Trolls, Posting, Unique Hierarchies, Individual Newsgroup sites) NEWSGROUP SERVICE PROVIDERS SUBMIT A USENET RESOURCE OR SEND COMMENTS Usenet Posting - A Useful Guide Posting to newsgroups is the way messages get from your head to the Internet :-) This webpage provides information on posting appropriately, issuing cancel requests, some administrator stuff like moderation of posts to Usenet.

How do I quote correctly in Usenet? provides good information for those users interested in attributing, quoting and answering; along with quoting other resources. Worth a look.
URL: http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
Author: Jan Schaumann/Dirk Nimmich
Other Features: French version available for reading
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Links to Prof. Timo Salmi's FAQ Material Extensive thoughts on using Usenet. Proper quoting, responding to crackpots, test posting, canceling posts, anonymous posting and more.
URL: http://lipas.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/tsfaq.html
Author: Timo Salmi
Other Features: downloadable files
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How not to look like an idiot on Usenet written back in 1995, rules to live by even by today's standards.
URL: http://infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/help/news/idiot.html
Author: R. G. Baer
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STUMP Robomoderator Program a useful tool for moderating postings made to certain newsgroups. Links to downloads and documentation readily available. As the author says, "moderation made easy".
URL: http://www.algebra.com/~ichudov/stump/
Author: Igor Chudov
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The Bincancel FAQ a website on how to issue," ... cancels for binary messages posted to a non-binary newsgroup". Geared more toward news server system administrators and moderators of newsgroups, as it involves using a 'bot' for automation.
URL: http://www.geniac.net/bincancel/
Author: Shaun Davis-Gluyas
Other Features: French version available for reading
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Top Posting discusses why top posting and "snipping" of Usenet posts should occur.
URL: http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/gey_stv0.htm
Author: David Stevenson
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Usenet Posting Etiquette concise, easy-to-read quickie on posting to Usenet. A must-read for any Usenet newbie.
URL: http://support.uchicago.edu/docs/misc/usenet/newsetiq.html
Author: University of Chicago NSIT
Other Features: other Internet-related links for Univ. of Chicago students
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Why is Bottom-posting better than Top-posting another angle on why users should bottom post vs top post to response in Usenet.
URL: http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html
Author: A. Smit & H.W. de Haan
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