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URL: http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html
ODP description: Short lesson by A. Smit and H.W. de Haan explaining how threaded conversations such as found on Usenet are adversely affected by those who "top post" instead of "bottom post" their replies.
Page title: Why is Bottom-posting better than Top-posting

URL: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/posting-rules/part1/
ODP description: Offers an discussion of what, and how, to post to newsgroups.
Page title: Rules for posting to Usenet

URL: http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
ODP description: About attribution, quoting, answering, quotation marks and quoting other resources.

URL: http://infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/help/news/idiot.html
ODP description: A list of 16 rules for basic Usenet postings is provided.
Page title: trn: How not to look like an idiot on Usenet

URL: http://www.templetons.com/brad/emily.html
ODP description: Satirical questions and answers on how to act on Usenet.

URL: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/dont.html
ODP description: Gives a list of behaviours to be avoided when posting to Usenet groups, as well as links to expand on each item.
Page title: The seven don'ts of Usenet

URL: http://www.geniac.net/bincancel/
ODP description: Explains in detail why posting huge binaries to non-binary newsgroups is inappropriate.

URL: http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/questions.html
ODP description: Briefly explains advantages of asking technical questions in public rather than e-mailing them directly to a group member. Written and placed in the public domain by Russ Allbery.

URL: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/primer/part1/
ODP description: Provides a list of things to remember when posting to Usenet groups.
Page title: A Primer on How to Work With the Usenet Community

URL: http://www.hyphenologist.co.uk/killfile/antitrollfaqhtm.htm
ODP description: People who delight in upsetting other Internet users are known as 'trolls'. This article examines the phenomenon.
Page title: New Page 1



  
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