Okay, I've started to write the thread - hopefully I can have it up sometime tonight. If anyone can think of any info I should include, please let me know
Once it's finished, it would perhaps be a good idea to link to it when newbies post an introduction as well
in a forum I used to run, whenever a newbie joined up and posted an intro thread, we had a 'standard post' that a mod would copy in so we knew they had easy access to all the information.