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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