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Wikipedia: Usenet - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
A presentation of Usenet: its history, terms and organization along with technical details and information on binary content. |
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Usenet on Livinginternet.com - http://www.livinginternet.com/u/u.htm
History of Usenet as a whole and of specific hierarchies like alt.*, bitnet and fidonet, old Usenet maps, the way the newsgroups work and how to use them, tips on advanced use, useful links. |
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yEnc - Encoding for Usenet and E-mail - http://www.yenc.org/
Homepage of the public domain encoding format widely used in binary newsgroups. A stand alone yEnc decoder is also available for download with its source code. |
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Beginner's Guide to Newsgroup Newsreaders - http://www.newsreaders.info/
Presents newsgroups and newsreaders with a particular focus on binary newsgroups. |
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Slyck's Guide to the Newsgroups - http://www.slyck.com/ng.php
Tutorials on binary newsgroups : how to download, verify, combine and decode files as well as how to post them. Tutorials on other topics such as IRC and P2P are also available. |
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Snoozenet - http://www.newsreaders.com/misc/twpierce/news/
Tim Pierce's New's Hacking page. Includes links to RFC 977, 1036, son-of-1036. |
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News2mail.com - http://www.news2mail.com/
Delivers via e-mail articles from user-selected newsgroups. Free service. |
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Usenet Replayer - http://www.usenet-replayer.com/
Web-based Usenet tools, including news resources archive, news server search, posting and retrieving of Usenet messages, advertising products, and forgery cancellations. Free. |
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Jukka Korpela's Material About Usenet - http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/
Selection of links to material on Usenet. Editorials by Jukka explaining the workings of Usenet and the reasons for certain conventions. |
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About News-Posting, by J R Stockton - http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/news-use.htm
Explanation of Usenet terms and tips on how to write and post to Usenet. |
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Computer Partners - http://www.compar.com/infopool/articles/news2vs3.html
Brief explanation of newsgroups and instructions for using Netscape Navigator or Outlook Express for reading newsgroups. |
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Marco Schmidt's Usenet Page - http://schmidt.devlib.org/usenet/
Features news items related to Usenet, a map of regional newsgroups and hierarchies as well as a collection of links. |
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User's Guide to the Changing Usenet - http://cil-www.oce.orst.edu/users.guide
Explains how RFDs (Requests For Discussion) and CFVs (Call For Votes) can be used to change a Usenet newsgroup. Gives tips on how to stay abreast of changes in newsgroups and how to be an active participant. |
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Authoritative Active File - ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/active
Maintained by the Big Eight Moderation Team at isc.org. This active file is a complete and current list of newsgroups available. Not limited to the "Big 8" groups only. |
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Internet Software Consortium - ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/
An FTP site with archives of various Usenet related documents. Includes active files, control messages, list of Usenet hierarchies. |