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Newer page: | version 9 | Last edited on Thursday, January 29, 2004 12:04:35 pm | by AristotlePagaltzis | 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 [MessageBoard]s
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.
A large '
dark half'
of Usenet
is binary traffic
(normally quite
illegal) - these are [MIME] encoded and your normal news provider probably doesn't carry them.
(The
hierarchy is "
alt.binaries"
and lets
just say "
erotica"
features highly in the lists.)
+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.