[1] : Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)

usenet
     users' network internet
     
     

[2] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

usenet /yoos'net/ or /yooz'net/ n. from `users' network'; the original
   spelling was usenet, but the mixed-case form is now widely preferred a
   distributed bboard bulletin board system supported mainly by unix
   machines. originally implemented in 1979-1980 by steve bellovin, jim
   ellis, tom truscott, and steve daniel at duke university, it has swiftly
   grown to become international in scope and is now probably the largest
   decentralized information utility in existence. as of early 1996, it
   hosts over 10,000 newsgroups and an average of over 500 megabytes the
   equivalent of several thousand paper pages of new technical articles,
   news, discussion, chatter, and flamage every day and that leaves out
   the graphics....

   by the year the internet hit the mainstream 1994 the original uucp
   transport for usenet was fading out of use see uucpnet - almost all
   usenet connections were over internet links. a lot of newbies and
   journalists began to refer to "internet newsgroups" as though usenet was
   and always had been just another internet service. this ignorance
   greatly annoys experienced usenetters.


see also:
bboard newsgroup flamage uucpnet 

[3] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

usenet
     
         /yoos'net/ or /yooz'net/ or "usenet news", from
        "users' network" a distributed bulletin board system and
        the people who post and read articles thereon.  originally
        implemented in 1979 - 1980 by steve bellovin, jim ellis, tom
        truscott, and steve daniel at duke university, and supported
        mainly by unix machines, it swiftly grew to become
        international in scope and, before the advent of the
        world-wide web, probably the largest decentralised
        information utility in existence.
     
        usenet encompasses government agencies, universities, high
        schools, businesses of all sizes, and home computers of all
        descriptions.  in the beginning, not all usenet hosts were on
        the internet.  as of early 1993, it hosted over 1200
        newsgroups "groups" for short and an average of 40
        megabytes the equivalent of several thousand paper pages of
        new technical articles, news, discussion, chatter, and
        flamage every day.  by november 1999, the number of groups
        had grown to over 37,000.
     
        to join in you originally needed a news reader program but
        there are now several web gateways such as deja
        http://www.deja.com/.  several web browsers include news
        readers and urls beginning "news:" refer to usenet
        newsgroups.
     
        network news transfer protocol is a protocol used to
        transfer news articles between a news server and a news
        reader.  the uucp protocol was sometimes used to transfer
        articles between servers, though this is probably rare now
        that most sites are on the internet.
     
        stanford university runs a service to send news articles by
        electronic mail.  send electronic mail to
         with "help" in the message body.
        still?  url?
     
        http://www.openmarket.com/info/internet-index/current-sources.html.
     
        notes on news
        http://www.ifi.uio.no/~larsi/notes/notes.html by lars magne
        ingebrigtsen .
     
        gene spafford , "what is usenet?",
        regular posting to news:news.announce.newusers.
     
        1999-12-17
     
     
see also:
bulletin board unix world-wide web newsgroups flamage news reader 
lt;dejagt; web browsers url network news transfer protocol protocol 
server news reader uucp internet stanford university 
electronic mail lt;http://www.openmarket.com/info/internet-index/current-sources.htmlgt; lt;notes on newsgt; lt;news:news.announce.newusersgt; 

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