Further Information
In this section we will detail some additional information
resources which could be useful to you. Many of the articles listed
below (for which URLs are given) are posted to
news groups regularly; some of those groups are also listed
here.
Informative Newsgroups
news.answers
news.newusers.questions
de.newsusers.infos (German)
de.answers (German)
de.comp.os.unix.linux.infos (German)
de.newusers.answers (German)
de.newusers.questions (German)
For beginners it is especially recommended to read these
articles at least partially: informed users have strong advantages in
news groups. There are some more-specialized news groups where
FAQs and introductory
articles are posted frequently, ⪚ the
newsgroup de.comp.os.unix.linux.infos (German),
which contains a lot of useful articles about the &Linux; operating system.
Just have a look on the group list of your newsserver for
it.
Test Groups
The following groups were created especially for testing,
&ie; after successfully configuring &knode; you should post some
articles to those groups to test your settings.
Some groups support automatic replies through email to enable you to
test whether your entered identity is correct and mail-replies actually
arrive in your mailbox.
In addition, some scripts are offered which check your articles
for erroneous settings and generate a followup with useful
hints.
de.test (German test newsgroup)
misc.test
alt.test
alt.test.ignore
Informative technical articles in the world wide web
These URLs are from the corresponding article
in the newsgroup
de.newusers.infos and have the same contents as
the articles posted there.
Introduction for de.newusers.infos: http://www.kirchwitz.de/~amk/dni/einleitung
(German)
The newsgroups of the de.alt hierarchy:
http://www.kirchwitz.de/~amk/dni/de-alt-newsgruppen
(German)
The newsgroups of the de-hierarchy: http://www.kirchwitz.de/~amk/dni/de-newsgruppen
(German)
First read, then post: http://www.kirchwitz.de/~amk/dni/erst-lesen-dann-schreiben (German)
First steps in the usenet: http://www.kirchwitz.de/~amk/dni/erste-schritte
(German)
Questions and answers from de.newusers.questions: http://www.kirchwitz.de/~amk/dni/faq
(German)
Seven theses about behavior in the internet: http://www.kirchwitz.de/~amk/dni/hoeflichkeit
(German)
Introduction to the usenet: http://www.kirchwitz.de/~amk/dni/usenet-einfuehrung
(German)
Why should I take the rules seriously? http://www.kirchwitz.de/~amk/dni/warum-regel
(German)
The newsreader FAQ: http://www.crosswinds.net/~cgarbers/faq/newsreaderFAQ.htm
The correct quoting: http://www.afaik.de/usenet/faq/zitieren
(German)
The German umlauts FAQ:
http://www.westfalen.de/paefken/de.newusers/umlaute-faq.txt (German)
Informative technical articles
If you are interested in further technical information in
connection to news, you should not miss the following
URLs.
Header entries:
http://www.kirchwitz.de/~amk/dni/headerzeilen (German)
A very useful message-ID FAQ:
http://www.qad.org/faq/faq-messageid.html
A lot of links about newsreaders and related topics: http://www.leafnode.org/links
RFCs, Drafts and documents for the technical
interested:
http://www.landfield.com/usefor/