"BETTINA HUGHES" in :
>i accidently discovered this ng,and i love it so much,...

Welcome Bettina. Lots of good information (also about newsgroups and their
traditions) via the FAQ postings and FAQ Web site:

http://vsack.homepage.t-online.de/nb/rfc_faq.html

Also in the classic introduction document for Internet users, RFC1855.
Here's a shorthand link I created to the original (with headers):

http://tinyurl.com/orsqo

Don't pay attention to the snippy responses (they want you to, because most
of them have nothing better or more dignified to do). RFC1855 deals with
them also: Note the part under "3.1.1 General Guidelines for mailing lists
and NetNews" -- aka newsgroups -- about correcting other people's language.

This is the original public food-and-cooking forum on the Internet,
established January 1982 and immediately popular.

-- Max