About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 62. Chapters: Kill file, Backbone cabal, Kibology, Kremvax, Great Renaming, A Fire Upon the Deep, Plonk, Internet Oracle, Network News Transfer Protocol, Posting style, Legion of Net.Heroes, Base64, Timeline of Internet conflicts, UUCP, Uuencoding, Parchive, BIFF, News server operation, Comp.sys.sinclair Crap Games Competition, Control message, MSTing, Breidbart Index, Newsgroup spam, Sporgery, YEnc, Eternal September, Hipcrime, Crossposting, Giganews, YProxy, Devilbunnies, B News, YDecode, InterNetNews, Cancelbot, X-Face, Lumber Cartel, NewzBin, X-No-Archive, NZB, A News, Usenet II, NOV, Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation, Scorefile, Announcement, Usenet quoting, Supernews, Followup-To, Good Netkeeping Seal of Approval, Web-based Usenet, Usenet Death Penalty, Crackpot index, Cryptography newsgroups, EasyNews, C News, XOVER, Message-ID, Waffle, ARMM, Completion rate, CfV, Internet FAQ Consortium. Excerpt: Usenet is a worldwide distributed Internet discussion system. It developed from the general purpose UUCP architecture of the same name. Duke University graduate students Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived the idea in 1979 and it was established in 1980. Users read and post messages (called articles or posts, and collectively termed news) to one or more categories, known as newsgroups. Usenet resembles a bulletin board system (BBS) in many respects, and is the precursor to the various Internet forums that are widely used today. Usenet can be superficially regarded as a hybrid between email and web forums. Discussions are threaded, with modern news reader software, as with web forums and BBSes, though posts are stored on the server sequentially. One notable difference between a BBS or web forum and Usenet is the absence of a central server and dedicated administrator. Usenet is distributed among a large, constantly changing ...