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Minimal editorial content filtering vs propagation speed form one crux of the Usenet community. One little cited defense of propagation is canceling a propagated message, but few Usenet users use this command and some news readers do not offer cancellation commands , in part because article storage expires in relatively short order anyway.
Usenet is a worldwide, distributed discussion system that uses the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP). Programs called newsreaders are used to read and post messages (called articles or posts, and collectively termed news) to one or more newsgroups.
Spotnet is a protocol on top of Usenet, providing a decentralized alternative to usenet indexing websites, and the NZB format in general. [1] Spotnet allows users to create and browse private 'newsservers', or decentralized repositories of files and information.
The Pan newsreader for GNOME. A newsreader is a software application that reads articles on Usenet distributed throughout newsgroups. [1] Newsreaders act as clients which connect to a news server, via the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP), to download articles and post new articles. [2]
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.
When DJI Interprises first published Newsbin Pro in 1995, it was one of the first news clients dedicated to finding and downloading Base64-encoded data in Usenet newsgroups. Newsbin Pro has been under constant development since its inception, and is an early adopter of Usenet software technologies, such as yEnc encoding, parchives , the NZB ...
This is the most extensive newsgroup hierarchy outside of the Big 8. Examples include: alt.atheism — discusses atheism; alt.binaries.slack — artwork created by and for the Church of the SubGenius.
The Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) is an application protocol used for transporting Usenet news articles (netnews) between news servers, and for reading/posting articles by the end user client applications.