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| Newer page: | version 8 | Last edited on Monday, January 12, 2004 3:31:35 am | by AristotlePagaltzis | 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.
+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
.
-Archived by GoogleGroups
, who used
to be !DejaNews.
[Binaries|http://www.usenetbinaries.com
] are now becoming a big part
of the Usenet
.
+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
.
-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.
+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/]
