TGOS.org http://www.tgos.org Technology, Gaming & Open Source! Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:52:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 en A General Description of Usenet and Newsgroups http://www.tgos.org/a-general-description-of-usenet-and-newsgroups-7/ http://www.tgos.org/a-general-description-of-usenet-and-newsgroups-7/#comments Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:52:14 +0000 admin http://www.tgos.org/a-general-description-of-usenet-and-newsgroups-7/ Here is a awesome general description of Usenet by netannounce@deshaw.com (Mark Moraes)

Usenet is a world-wide distributed discussion system. It is made up of set of “newsgroups” with names that are classified hierarchically by subject. “Articles” or “messages” are “posted” to these newsgroups by users 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 they appear 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:

]]> http://www.tgos.org/a-general-description-of-usenet-and-newsgroups-7/feed/ TGOS is back. http://www.tgos.org/tgos-is-back-6/ http://www.tgos.org/tgos-is-back-6/#comments Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:13:21 +0000 admin http://www.tgos.org/tgos-is-back-6/ It’s been a while but it’s time to dust this site off and start providing a new generation of Usenet users with useful information.

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