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| Newer page: | version 6 | Last edited on Monday, September 8, 2003 10:09:27 am | by CraigBox | Revert |
| 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.
-Archived by GoogleGroups, who used to be !DejaNews. [Binaries|http://www
.usenetbinaries
.com] are now becoming a big part of
the Usenet
.
+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
.)
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.
