What (who) is Usenet newsgroups - definition

REPOSITORY USUALLY WITHIN THE USENET SYSTEM, FOR MESSAGES POSTED FROM MANY USERS IN DIFFERENT LOCATIONS

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Usenet personality

INTERNET CELEBRITY NOTABLE FOR USENET POSTING

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A Usenet personality was a particular kind of Internet celebrity, being an individual who gained a certain level of notoriety from posting on Usenet, a global network of computer users with a vast array of topics for discussion. Since its inception, Usenet newsgroups have attracted a wide variety of people posting all manner of fact, fiction, theories, opinions, and beliefs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet_personality

Usenet II

TERM

Usenet 2; Usenet2

Usenet II was a proposed alternative to the classic Usenet hierarchy, started in 1998. Unlike the original Usenet, it was peered only between "sound sites" and employed a system of rules to keep out spam.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet_II

Usenet quoting

OVERVIEW ABOUT THE QUOTING ON THE USENET

Usenet Quoting; Email quote format

When Usenet and e-mail users respond to a message, they often want to include some context for the discussion. This is often accomplished by quoting a portion of the original message using Usenet conventions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet_quoting

Wikipedia

Usenet newsgroup

A Usenet newsgroup is a repository usually within the Usenet system, for messages posted from users in different locations using the Internet. They are discussion groups and are not devoted to publishing news. Newsgroups are technically distinct from, but functionally similar to, discussion forums on the World Wide Web. Newsreader software is used to read the content of newsgroups.

Before the adoption of the World Wide Web, Usenet newsgroups were among the most popular Internet services, and have retained their noncommercial nature in contrast to the increasingly ad-laden web. In recent years, this form of open discussion on the Internet has lost considerable ground to individually-operated browser-accessible forums and big media social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.

Communication is facilitated by the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) which allows connection to Usenet servers and data transfer over the internet. Similar to another early (yet still used) protocol SMTP which is used for email messages, NNTP allows both server-server and client-server communication. This means that newsgroups can be replicated from server to server which gives the Usenet network the ability to maintain a level of robust data persistence as a result of built-in data redundancy. However, most users will access using only the client-server commands of NNTP and in almost all cases will use a GUI for browsing as opposed to command line based client-server communication specified in the NNTP protocol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet newsgroup

Pronunciation examples for Usenet newsgroups

1. Because on the WELL and usenet newsgroups, even back

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Examples of use of Usenet newsgroups

1. According to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, "There is a tradition in many Usenet newsgroups that once such a comparison is made, the thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress."