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.
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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.