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Usenet (/ˈjuːznɛt/),
USENET, or, "in full", User's Network, is a
worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers. It was
developed from...
- A
Usenet newsgroup is a
repository usually within the
Usenet system, for
messages posted from
users in
different locations using the Internet. They are...
- term is
applied to
similar abuses in
other media:
instant messaging spam,
Usenet newsgroup spam, Web
search engine spam, spam in blogs, wiki spam, online...
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Usenet is a worldwide,
distributed discussion system that uses the
Network News
Transfer Protocol (NNTP).
Programs called newsreaders are used to read...
- On
Usenet, the
Usenet Death Penalty (UDP) is a
final penalty that may be
issued against Internet service providers or
single users who
produce too much...
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Usenet II was a
proposed alternative to the
classic Usenet hierarchy,
started in 1998.
Unlike the
original Usenet, it was
peered only
between "sound sites"...
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providers began offering Usenet access to many new users.
Prior to this, the only
sudden changes in the
volume of new
users of
Usenet occurred each September...
- A
newsreader is a
software application that
reads articles on
Usenet distributed throughout newsgroups.
Newsreaders act as
clients which connect to a news...
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first used in
Internet slang, with
numerous unattested accounts of BBS and
Usenet origins in the
early 1980s or before. The
English noun "troll" in the standard...
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author Mike
Godwin in 1990, Godwin's law
originally referred specifically to
Usenet newsgroup discussions. He
stated that he
introduced Godwin's law in 1990...
