On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux, in article
<wIxij.87760$YL5.36577@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net> , Ericus Lin wrote:

>I've been looking around for a simple, straightforward netiquette
>document like this.

Michael posts it to several other groups as well.

>I just started using newsgroups four days ago, when I found that my
>ISP has newsgroup servers, so I'm trying to get used to this
>environment. I must say that it's not exactly what I expected:
>actual news, like the post Linus made announcing Linux years ago.

Who is that... ok it's an actual ISP server (as opposed to one of the
news providers, such as giganews, supernews, or individual.net). You
also appear to be using a web browser to read the news - I can't help
with that. There are a VERY large number of newsgroups. Depending
on your server, there might be as few as the 2290 listed in the
"List of Big Eight Newsgroups" that is posted on the 15th of every
month to 'news.announce.newgroups', 'news.groups', and 'news.lists.misc'
on up through 100,000 or more carried on those servers that like to
claim they have more groups than everyone else. "Announcements" are
generally found on groups like 'comp.os.linux.announce' (there are 58
such groups in the "List of Big Eight Newsgroups", but your server
could carry a lot more than that). You may also find a large number
of Linux groups in the 'alt.linux', 'alt.os.linux' and 'comp.os.linux'
hierarchies - many favoring (or aimed at) one distribution, or similar,
such as

alt.os.linux alt.os.linux.mandrake alt.os.linux.redhat
alt.os.linux.debian alt.os.linux.mandriva alt.os.linux.suse
alt.os.linux.gentoo alt.os.linux.pclinuxos alt.os.linux.ubuntu

The Big Eight groups (which for linux means the 17 comp.os.linux.*
groups) tends to be more distribution neutral.

>Anyhow, I don't know if it's proper to reply to FAQ's,

I don't think anyone is going to shoot you for that.

>but I noticed that the following URL points to nothing:
>
>> "The Usenet Newbie Project"
>> http://tgos.org/newbie/index2.html

Unfortunately, some links seem to disappear after a time. Two of the
links below that one had been off-line for a while, but I seem they are
available again. Hopefully, Michael will look into the problem, and
find a replacement if possible. You may want to scan through the
HOWTOs if you haven't - for example, the Usenet-News-HOWTO may be of
interest.

Old guy