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24 - USENET NEWSGROUPS
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More Basics 1 - Scope 2 - Connecting 3 - How ISPs Differ 4 - Definitions 5 - The Browser WORLD WIDE WEB 6 - "Web Page" 7 - Addresses (URLs) 8 - Bookmarks 9 - Known Address 10 - Navigating 11 - Frames 12 - The "Home" Page 13 - Cruising 14 - Searching 15 - Saving Text 16 - Saving Pictures 17 - Security 18 - Plugins 19 - Programs/Settings 20 - E-mail Addresses 21 - Using E-mail 22 - Attachments 23 - Listservs Other 24 -Newsgroups 25 -Netiquette  |
USENET was once a wonderful
way for people who shared common interests to meet one other and exchange
information. USENET newsgroups were topical discussion groups
organized around areas of interest. Anyone on the Internet was free
to participate.
Over time, as the Internet grew, and a few hundred topical groups exploded into thousands and tens of thousans, many of the groups became watered down and fraught with "flaming," a word to describe just stirring up discontent and insulting indiscriminately. So newsgroups are becoming a thing of the past. Further complicating the situation, USENET rests on a completely different technology from the World Wide Web and requires a different program (not the browser) for access. Your browser suite includes a news reader as well as a mail reader. USENET is still useful for support groups of various sorts, though these have been largely supplanted by chat rooms. To learn more about USENET and find specific newsgroups of interest, try this very useful site: To search through thousands of newsgroups for discussions of interest, use the AltaVista search engine. In the pulldown menu just above the search field, tell Altavista to search USENET rather than the Web. |
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