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>Chapter 18. Finding Help</H1
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>Table of Contents</B
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>18.1. <A
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>Newsgroups and Mailing Lists</A
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>18.1.1. <A
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HREF="newsgroups-mailling-lists.html#RIGHT-FORUM"
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>Finding The Right Forum</A
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>18.1.2. <A
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HREF="newsgroups-mailling-lists.html#BEFORE-YOU-POST"
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>Before You Post</A
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HREF="newsgroups-mailling-lists.html#WRITING-YOUR-POST"
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>18.1.4. <A
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HREF="newsgroups-mailling-lists.html#FORMATTING-YOUR-POST"
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>Formatting Your Post</A
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>More Information</A
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>IRC</A
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>Colours</A
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>18.2.2. <A
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>Be Polite</A
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>Type Properly, in English</A
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>18.2.4. <A
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>Port scanning</A
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>18.2.5. <A
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>Keep it in the Channel</A
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>18.2.6. <A
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>Stay On Topic</A
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>18.2.7. <A
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>CTCPs</A
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>18.2.8. <A
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HREF="irc.html#HACKING"
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>Hacking, Cracking, Phreaking, Warezing</A
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>18.2.9. <A
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HREF="irc.html#ROUND-UP"
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>Round Up</A
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>18.2.10. <A
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HREF="irc.html#FURTHER-READING"
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>Further Reading</A
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>"Help me if you can I'm feeling down. And I do
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appreciate you being 'round."</SPAN
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> - The
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Beatles</P
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>Help is out there. You just have to know where to look. With
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Linux there are an amazing number of places you can go. There are
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mailing lists, IRC channels, web pages with public forums, and many
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other resources available. This chapter will try to help you get the
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most out of your quest for help.</P
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