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 Panel 28

	 Table of Contents of this Chain

 28	 News quiz					<This panel>
 1	 Reminders on use of the *.general news.groups
 8	 General Help Reading News
 12	 Posting headers and cross-posting
 16	 Distribution Fields
 20	 Killfiles (with extreme prejudice)
 24	 Canceling posted news articles


The following self-test will cover your news knowledge.


The CA DMV News posting quiz

Test your news skills (answer T or F).

Beginner (reader)
	Can deliberately (not accidentally) invoke mail, news, bbs, or notes.
	Can get out of said system cleanly (without issuing an interrupt).
	Might be able to read news.  Can't post or send mail
		(probably because it invokes a foreign editor).
	Blown away when .newsrc (or .notesrc) starts up with 2245 lines (e.g.).
	Can't understand strange symbols.
	Strictly a lurker.

Intermediate (user)
	Beyond the beginner stage.
	Can read news groups sequentially.
	Can post follow-ups.
	Capable of invoking the system help command.
	Incapable of skipping articles.
	Not necessarily capable of article or group searching.
	Selectively reads news groups.  Ignores the rest.
	Expects others to post and generate articles like a magazine.
	Does not understand flame wars.
	Recognizes smilies 8^) [I have glasses.], maybe makes ASCII graphics.
	Lurker, sometime poster.

Advanced (poster)
	Beyond the intermediate stage.
	Can read news groups or posts in any order (random access).
	Can skip news articles.
	Can search a news article or new group.
	Can unsubscribe/subscribe from news.groups at will.
	Understands the differences in terminology (e.g., doesn't freak out
		when seeing the words notesfile, BBS, or discussion group).
	Knows how to use Followup lines.
	Can use Kill files.
	Can understands and edits .newsrc, .notesrc, .signature, etc. files.
	May understand the news.hierarchy.
	Can set up FAQs.
	Understands flame wars.

System Admin ()
	Beyond the advanced poster stage.
	Can set up a news system.
	Can decipher UUCP Paths.
	Can clean a news system when the file system gets full.
	Understands (read and edit) headers.
	Knows where articles actually sit.
	Understands or can set up news gateways.
	Understands accounts like root, system, postmaster, etc.
	Can control flame wars. ( rm -r /usr/spool/news/fav.news.path 8^)
	Not without a sense of humor.
	Able to piece together and understand deliberately obscure FAQ postings.
	May know how to forge postings.
	May moderate a news.group.

Explain the initials DMV in this context?