Wren's Guide to Effective Newbie Helping in MUDs is a great article and guide featuring such goodies as:

Don't Play the Game for the Newbie - Teach It, Then Let IT Play
Baby's First Steps or I'm Not a Cyber-Stalker, Honest!
Help! My Newbie Hates Help Files or Why Won't It RTFM???
Newbie Taxi Services
Feed the Newbie Eggos, Not Ego
Baby... er... Newbie-Sitter Extraordinaires
Newbies with Special Needs

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Cute article, Wren.

The only disagreement with it I have is that I don't think it's productive to think of newbies as babies. They are often intelligent adults who may resent the implications of that attitude.

--matt