1.1) What this document is

This document represents an ongoing attempt to educate people about
true freedom of speech among the emerging cyber-communities. There is
a companion document to this, the USENET Site of Virtue FAQ, which
should be read AFTER this document.

1.2) Prerequisites

If you don't know what Usenet is, you're reading the wrong document!

Go look in the newsgroup news.answers for appropriate introductory
documents. There are many, and each has their own point of view.  In
order to understand the discussions here you should be familiar with
USENET in general, and have a reasonable amount of experience posting
and/or reading news.

If these documents are not in news.answers or news.announce.newusers 
on your site, they can be had by anonymous ftp from rtfm.mit.edu in 
the directory /pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/news/announce/newusers.

If you have a WWW browser, the following URLS should help you out:

<http://www.jetcafe.org/~dave/usenet/>

It helps to be familiar with news administration, how news works
in general, and have kept up in some discussions on news.admin.*,
but this is not totally mandatory for understanding this document.

Also, you should believe that no expression, however annoying,
profit-oriented or counterproductive, should be prevented from being
distributed. If you do not believe in this way, this document will
probably make you angry.  (If that's what you want, then read it.)

The generic opposing document to this one is located at:

  http://www.cybernothing.org/faqs/net-abuse-faq.html 

Readers interested in the opposing viewpoints may wish to look at this
URL for reference.

If you wish to see what flaming in FAQs is like, read the document
that tries to respond to this document:

  http://www.cybernothing.org/faqs/davehayes.html

See section 5.1 for a cute irony to this document.



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