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stefan@stefan.spn.com writes:

>I believe that you CAN solve the problem by information. A new user should 
>be given an account only after an explanation of how usenet works. Every 
>sysadmin should have a printed version of the faqs of the groups on 
>his machine and give it to people upon request. (They must know of this, 
>of course.)

Well, partly as a result of this discussion, I took the most important posts
from news.answers (IMHO)

        primer          ``A Primer on How to Work With the USENET Community''
        posting_rules   ``Rules of Conduct on USENET''
        writing_style   ``USENET Writing Style''
        what_is         ``What Is USENET''

And put them in a globally accessible area.  I then put a message in the trn
newsnews file and in the nn motd, pointing out these postings, and telling
new users of news that they should ask me any questions they had, and
pointing out news.announce.newusers, news.answers, news.newusers.questions
as good places to start reading.

Hopefully, seeing this mini-tutorial on the net the first time they read
news will help.

I also have the FAQs from several groups on-line that I let people know
about.  Due to personal bias, the FAQs I keep online are comp.lang.c,
comp.windows.x, and a couple of related ones.

-- 
The Anonymous News Administrator (if you need to know, you already know)
I just administer the news, I don't make or state policy.