This article is based on material authored by members of the news.newusers.questions Moderation Board and nnq-workers mailing list, particularly by Dennis D. Calhoun (until 2005) and Thor Kottelin (since 2007).

Help in your language

The helpers in news.newusers.questions know a lot of answers, but we don't always speak the same languages as the people we're trying to help! In many cases, the best help for technical problems will come from a newsgroup which speaks your own language.

These newsgroups are good starting points for new users who are not very familiar with English:

ch.comp

Computer related topics (for Swiss readers)

chile.comp.internet

Discusion general sobre Internet en Chile

chinese.newsgroups.newusers

Postings by new users (Chinese)

de.newusers.questions

Hilfe zum Usenet (moderated)

es.news.preguntas

Preguntas generales sobre las news (Spanish)

fr.bienvenue.questions

Les premières questions sur Usenet (French)

han.news.users

Usenet users, new user question/discussion (Korean)

it.news.aiuto

Domande e risposte sul servizio news (Italian)

nl.internet.welkom

Startpunt voor beginners op internet (Dutch/Netherlands; moderated)

no.it.tjenester.news.diverse

Newsprogramvare og news generelt (Norwegian)

pt.internet.usenet

Discussao sobre as Usenet news em Portugal (Portugese)

swnet.internet.news

Tekniska och administrativa frågor kring news (Swedish)

tw.bbs.help

Help for newcomers (Taiwanese)

In addition to the above, the users in one of the related soc.culture.* newsgroups might be able to point you to other newusers groups which are available in your language.