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It discontinued Usenet operation in 2024. As of May 2017, Easynews [3] appears to be the only regularly updated and reliable way to access newsgroups through a Web browser. As of December 2024, the following text-only web-based Usenet sites also exist. All are free to access but require registration to post: Narkive (read-only) [4]
Usenet (/ ˈ j uː z n ɛ t /), USENET, [1] or, "in full", User's Network, [1] is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers. It was developed from the general-purpose Unix-to-Unix Copy (UUCP) dial-up network architecture. Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived the idea in 1979, and it was established in 1980. [2]
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. Users must have access to a news server to use a newsreader. This is a list of such newsreaders.
Google Groups allows any user to freely conduct and access threaded discussions, via either a web interface or e-mail. There are at least two kinds of discussion groups: forums specific to Google Groups (like mailing lists) [3] and Usenet groups, accessible by NNTP, for which Google Groups acts as gateway and unofficial archive. The Google ...
This is a category of articles relating to software which can be freely used, copied, studied, modified, and redistributed by everyone that obtains a copy: "free software" or "open source software". Typically, this means software which is distributed with a free software license , and whose source code is available to anyone who receives a copy ...
Easynews offers Usenet access both through traditional Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) servers as well as a web interface using a standard web browser. In 2006, Easynews was bought out by Highwinds Media, and their infrastructure merged. This move dramatically increased retention for all Easynews customers.
America Online CEO Stephen M. Case, left, and Time Warner CEO Gerald M. Levin listen to senators' opening statements during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the merger of the two ...
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. Usenet II was backed by influential Usenetters like Russ Allbery. Sometime between 2010 [1] and 2011, [2] the web page for Usenet II went ...