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The Usenet Newbie Project

http://tgos.org/newbie/
This is a fairly general Usenet tutorial, with pages regarding etiquette in discussion groups, as well as topics dealing with Usenet administration, such as creating new newsgroups. If you are completely new to newsgroups, this is an excellent resource to start with.

Slyck's Guide to the Newsgroups

This extremely detailed Usenet tutorial is focused primarily on the binary side of Usenet. It explains in simple terms how binary content can be posted to the text-based medium of Usenet, and how to download and assemble binary articles. Additionally, commentary and reviews of newsreader software and Usenet service providers are available. If you don't find the answers you need in the guide itself, don't hesitate to ask questions in their newsgroup forums ( href="http://slyck.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=9">http://slyck.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=9).

'How Newsgroups Work' at howstuffworks.com

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/newsgroup.htm
This very detailed tutorial explains the difference between newsgroups and other online communications, newsgroup jargon, and the entire process of viewing and posting articles. There are also many links to other resources.

Usenet Searching

This Usenet tutorial is concerned with finding specific information on Usenet as quickly as possible. This tutorial also includes a number of links to similar resources as well as utilities to search Usenet content from a web browser.

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