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| Newer page: | version 4 | Last edited on Sunday, August 10, 2003 12:44:10 pm | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
| Older page: | version 1 | Last edited on Sunday, August 10, 2003 11:34:44 am | by CraigBox | 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.
-Archived by GoogleGroups.
+Archived by GoogleGroups, who used to be !DejaNews
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-Linux, being a newer thing, 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.
+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.
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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.
