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| Newer page: | version 10 | Last edited on Wednesday, November 9, 2005 2:17:18 pm | by IanMcDonald | |
| Older page: | version 5 | Last edited on Monday, September 8, 2003 8:25:30 am | by MarkBillings | Revert |
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-The original '
message boards'
or '
forums'
of the internet. UseNet is
made up of millions of 'newsgroups'. It uses
the [NNTP] protocol.
+The original message boards or "
forums"
of the InterNet,
made up of millions of [NewsGroup]s and transported using
the [NNTP] protocol. You use a NewsReader to browse it and post messages
.
-Archived by GoogleGroups
, who used to be !
DejaNews. [Binaries|http://www
.usenetbinaries
.com]
are now becoming a big part of the Usenet
.
+There is an extensive archive
, originally by ~
DejaNews (who no longer exist) and now known as GoogleGroups
. A large "dark half" of UseNet is comprised of (often illegal) binary traffic (the hierarchy is mainly under __alt
.binaries__, and let's just say __erotica__ features highly in the lists)
. Messages containing file( fragment)s
are [MIME] encoded and most news servers don't carry them
.
-If you're in Linux, use MozillaMail, [Pan|http://pan.rebelbase.com/] ([GNOME]) or [Knode|http://knode.sourceforge.net/] ([KDE]) to read newsgroups in XFree86; or [tin|http://www.tin.org/] or [slrn|http://www.slrn.org/] to read them in console mode.
-
-Linux, being a newer thing (Usenet
was one of the first things on the Internet
in the early 1980s, full of [VAX] and [UNIX] questions)
tends to be best supported in [MailingLists|
MailingList]; however if you have
MicrosoftWindows queries, you'll get better answers from UseNet (specifically
MicrosoftCorporation's '
private' newsgroups)
9 times out of 10.
+UseNet
was one of the first things on the InterNet
in the early 1980s, full of [VAX] and [UNIX] questions. [Linux] is a newer thing and
tends to be best supported in [MailingList]s -
MicrosoftWindows queries on the other hand are best answered in
MicrosoftCorporation's "
private" UseNet [NewsGroup] hierarchy,
9 times out of 10.
