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===USENET, overview===
 Article:31
 Created:1999-09-01 16:39:54
 Categories:
   General Concepts

====Question or Symptom====
What is USENET or "net news"?

====Resolution====
   Usenet is a world-wide distributed discussion system. It consists of a
   set of "newsgroups" with names that are classified hierarchically by
   subject. "Articles" or "messages" are "posted" to these newsgroups by
   people on computers with the appropriate software -- these articles
   are then broadcast to other interconnected computer systems via a wide
   variety of networks. Some newsgroups are "moderated"; in these
   newsgroups, the articles are first sent to a moderator for approval
   before appearing in the newsgroup. Usenet is available on a wide
   variety of computer systems and networks, but the bulk of modern
   Usenet traffic is transported over either the Internet or UUCP.
  
   You can find this and other useful information about Usenet, in the
   newsgroup news.announce.newusers

   Usenet news has largely been replaced with blogs, and special interest web
   sites, but occasionally it can be useful.

====Related URLS====
  news:news.announce.newusers
  news:nm.general