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-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.
+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.
-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.
+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.
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.
