[LMB] AKICOT:L Usenet for a Dummy?

[Katrina Knight]

At 11:48 PM 05/02/2008 James M. BRYANT G4CLF wrote:
>I want to learn to use Usenet.

>Can anyone give me some advice on how a bear of little brain 
>should start, please?

I was typing an answer to this but then saw Mark give you an 
answer that covered most of what I was about to say.

What is it that you want to use it for? Knowing that might help 
us point you in the right direction. Be aware that the signal to 
noise ratio is often poor in newsgroups and that trolls abound 
in some of them. That's not to say that there isn't good stuff 
there too, it just takes some searching to find it sometimes.

At 01:04 AM 05/03/2008 Mark Allums wrote:
>There are some famous ones, such as arts.rec.sf.*  (Do I have 
>that right?  Or is it alt.rec.sf.*?  Haven't read any of them 
>in years.)

Rec.arts.sf.*   I pretty much ran out of time to read that stuff 
quite a while ago. I don't have time to read all of what comes 
via e-mail, and that has a much higher rate of interesting vs. 
junk content.

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Katrina Knight
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