Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!pyramid!leadsv!alsip From: alsip@leadsv.UUCP (Mark Alsip) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: help Keywords: usenet Message-ID: <3422@leadsv.UUCP> Date: 8 Jul 88 23:56:43 GMT Organization: LMSC-LEADS, Sunnyvale, Ca. Lines: 15 is there any CLEARLY WRITTEN documentation that would be useful to a new user of this network? I've been trying (unsuccessfully) for days to mail messages to people in different parts of the country, but they all appear to be 'sucked up' in a black hole, or returned with cryptic status codes. I'm particularly interested in proper formats for network addresses, how much information I need about a destination node in order to get messages to it, what happens to a message once it gets into DEC's internal network (via decwrl...), and general information about USENET itself. Yes, I've looked at what's available online, and if it's considered complete and meaningful by everyone but me, I apologize. Thanks, in advance, for your help.