Further Information
In this paragraph we will offer you some more information resources which could be useful to you. Many of the below listed articles (for which URLs are given) are posted to news groups regularly. Some of those groups are also listed here.

Informative Newsgroups
news.answers
news.newusers.questions
For beginners it is especially recommended to read these articles at least partially. Informed users have strong advantages in news groups. There are some more specialized news groups where FAQs and introducing articles are posted frequently.

Test Groups
The following groups were created especially for testing, i.e. after successfully configuring you should post some articles to those groups to test your settings.
Some groups support automatic replys thru email to enable you to test whether your entered identity is correct and mail-replys actually arrive in your mailbox.
In addition, some scripts are offered which check your articles for errorous settings and generate a followup with useful hints.
misc.test
alt.test
alt.test.ignore

Informative technical articles
If you are interested in further technical information in connection to news, you should not miss the following URLS.
A very useful Message-ID FAQ
Many links regarding news readers and related issues.
RFCs, drafts and documents for the technical interested