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From: billc@mirror.UUCP (Bill Callahan)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: questions
Message-ID: <29015@mirror.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jul 89 15:37:15 GMT
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Reply-To: billc@prism.TMC.COM (Bill Callahan - Still Here!)
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In article <4051@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> eileen@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Eileen M Garland) writes:
=>How do I determine my own (or anyone else's) address?

	To determine your own address, ask or send a mail message to your
	systems administrator (on many systems, sending mail to "root" will
	do this.)  Ask for your address.  In your case, your address is

			eileen@vax1.acs.udel.EDU
	
	To get other people's addresses, ask them in a conventional way, if
	they know, or get them to find out the same way you did.  If they
	mail you a message, or if you see a posting of theirs, their address
	should appear in the header, just as your does, or mine.
	(I'm billc@mirror.tmc.com.  Check out the header for this message.
	My address should be there in the "Sender" line.)
=>
=>Is there documentation available anywhere (and if so, please explain
=>in detail how I can get it) that gives a good introduction to News?
=>Usenet?  (Are they the same thing?)  What are all these other nets
=>I see mentioned when I read the News?  Help!  I'm seriously confused.

	Subscribe to the new.announce.newusers group.  Also, try typing
	"man rn" from your terminal to find out about your news reader.
	Once you are in rn, the 'h' key will give you help.
=>
=>How can an individual not attached to a university tap into this
=>network?

	This is harder.  Many computer oriented businesses are on the net,
	and employees have access.  If that's not so for your friends,
	they'll have to see about getting in touch with a service that they
	can dial into from home that has net access.  If your site gets
	pubnet.nixpub, they have a list of such sites.
=>
=>I've been fumbling my way through this News (which I love) for a couple of
=>months now, but still have only a rudimentary idea of what I'm doing.
=>Does everyone have this much trouble or is there something wrong with me?

	No, there's nothing wrong with you.  It does take some getting used
	to.  I found that I learned a lot by reading some of the groups
	under the news.* banner, like news.admin, for instance.  These
	groups tend to carry a lot of discussions about the net itself, and
	how it all works.  Another good thing is to find a real human at
	your site who's really into it.  You get a lot by osmosis.

	Good luck!

	Bill