Many newsgroups have postings that are made periodically for new users
of those specific groups.  These postings are usually referred to as
FAQs, or Frequently-Asked Questions.  The postings are usually
cross-posted to the news.answers (and companion comp.answers,
sci.answers, etc.)  newsgroup for purposes of archiving and
consolidated searching.  Normally, users will not post articles here
unless they have constructed a FAQ for a particular newsgroup.