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According to strom@Watson.Ibm.Com (Rob Strom):
>I was using the word "guidelines" loosely to refer to all the
>tutorial postings in news.announce.newusers: None are actually
>labelled as "guidelines" in their titles but reading them as a whole,
>they appear to function collectively as such.

You are mistaken.  Only "How To Create ..." contains a procedure which
must (for practical purposes) be followed.  The other articles merely
record societal conventions, which vary from newsgroup to newsgroup.
The term "the guidelines" refers _only_ to the former.

>I think a new user who reads both the "Primer" and "How to Create..."
>will assume that the Primer describes the proprieties for all
>articles, and How to Create describes the *additional* rules for
>newsgroup creation.

I would say "procedure" rather than "rules".  But in any case, the
distinction between procedure ("do A, then B, then C...") and
proprieties ("A is polite, B is impolite") is important; and you
seem to have entirely missed that important distinction.
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   want to eat pork / you make me want to staple bagles to my face /
   and remove them with a pitchfork" -- Weird Al Yankovic, "You Make Me"