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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 [MessageBoard]s or "forums" of the InterNet, made up of millions of [NewsGroup]s and transported using the [NNTP] protocol. 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
.
+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
.
-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
.
+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
.
-A list
of popular Linux news readers includes:
-; %%% With
[GUI
] :
-** MozillaMail
-**
[Pan
]
-** [Knode|http://knode
.sourceforge.net/
] (
[KDE
])
-; %%% For
the console :
-**
[Slrn
]
-** [tin|http://www
.tin.org/]
+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
.
