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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...
- The
USENET Cookbook was an
experiment in
electronic publishing conducted by
Brian Reid in 1985–1987,
several years before the Web. Reid
distinguishes between...
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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...
- 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 II was a
proposed alternative to the
classic Usenet hierarchy,
started in 1998.
Unlike the
original Usenet, it was
peered only
between "sound sites"...
- 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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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
Usenet personality was a
particular kind of
Internet celebrity,
being an
individual who
gained a
certain level of
notoriety from
posting on
Usenet, a...
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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...
