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FYI on Questions and Answers: Answers to commonly asked "new Internet user" questions

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Network Working Group                                          G. Malkin
Request for Comments: 1206                            FTP Software, Inc.
FYI: 4                                                         A. Marine
Obsoletes: RFC 1177                                                  SRI
                                                           February 1991


                      FYI on Questions and Answers
        Answers to Commonly asked "New Internet User" Questions

Status of this Memo

   This FYI RFC is one of two FYI's called, "Questions and Answers"
   (Q/A), produced by the User Services Working Group of the Internet
   Engineering Task Force (IETF).  The goal is to document the most
   commonly asked questions and answers in the Internet.

   This memo provides information for the Internet community.  It does
   not specify any standard.  Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Table of Contents

   1. Introduction.................................................   1
   2. Acknowledgements.............................................   2
   3. Questions About the Internet.................................   2
   4. Questions About TCP/IP.......................................   4
   5. Questions About the Domain Name System.......................   4
   6. Questions About Internet Documentation.......................   5
   7. Questions about Internet Organizations and Contacts..........   9
   8. Questions About Services.....................................  13
   9. Mailing Lists................................................  16
   10. Miscellaneous "Internet lore" questions.....................  17
   11. Suggested Reading...........................................  18
   12. References..................................................  19
   13. Condensed Glossary..........................................  20
   14. Security Considerations.....................................  31
   15. Authors' Addresses..........................................  32

1. Introduction

   New users joining the Internet community have the same questions as
   did everyone else who has ever joined.  Our quest is to provide the
   Internet community with up to date, basic Internet knowledge and
   experience, while moving the redundancies away from the electronic
   mailing lists so that the lists' subscribers do not have to read the
   same queries and answers over and over again.

   Future updates of this memo will be produced as User Services members



User Services Working Group
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