      The USENET Handbook: A User's Guide to Netnews
                      By Mark Harrison
          388 pages, ISBN: 1-56592-101-1, $24.95

Our new guide to USENET discussion groups will be available in bookstores
in early June. This book unlocks USENET--it's not just a technical book,
although it includes tutorials on the most popular newsreaders for UNIXand
Windows (tin, nn, GNUS, and Trumpet). It also explains what goes on on the
Net: where to look for information and what to do with it once you get it.
It gives you an introduction into the culture: Net etiquette, the private
language, and some of the history...including some of the more notable
practical jokes and pranks.

USENET, which is also called Netnews, is the world's largest discussion
forum. It's a place for asking and answering technical questions, arguing
about politics, religion, and society, or discussing most scientific,
artistic, or humanistic disciplines. You'll be surprised by who you meet;
it's common for a simple question to be answered by a noted authority.
USENET is also a forum for distributing free software,digitized pictures
and sounds, and many other things. With the appropriate licensing, you can
even get a complete newspaper.

From the first ARPANET mailing lists to DOS BBSs to the modern USENET, the
ability to hold discussions has attracted people to electronic
communication by the thousands. Although the Internet now carries a lot of
USENET's traffic, USENET was around first, and still reaches many places
that aren't yet connected to the Internet. If you have an Internet
connection, you can read News; but if you don't yet have an Internet
connection, you can still participate by finding someone willing to pass a
news feed along to you.

Discussion groups aren't the fanciest things around -- but they have been
networking's "killer application" ever since people first decided to
connect their computers together. Electronic mail may be the most
necessary application, and the World Wide Web may be the sexiest, but
discussion groups become obsessions. "The USENET Handbook: A User's Guide
to Netnews" shows you how to join the fun.
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