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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.

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.

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Last edited on Wednesday, November 9, 2005 2:17:18 pm by IanMcDonald

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