lowercase title alt.religion.scientology The newsgroup alt. hierarchy alt .religion.scientology often abbreviated a.r.s or ARS is a Usenetnewsgroup started in 1991 to discuss the controversial beliefs ... and in the courts. Creation of the newsgroup On July 17, 1991, ref ftp ftp.isc.org pub usenet control ..., 1995 ref The original Usenet newgroup message used to create the newsgroup was formatted in a manner ... into the newsgroup creation message. Because of this, persons speaking in favor of Scientology frequently claim that a forgery was used to create the newsgroup. Scientology has used this argument in its requests to have the entire newsgroup removed from Usenet, but this argument has been nearly ... to remove the entire newsgroup from Usenet. On January 11, 1995, an rmgroup message a command designed to remove a newsgroup was posted to Usenet containing the following statement We request that you remove the alt.religion.scientology newsgroup from your site. The reasons for requesting its .... Retrieved June 14, 2006. ref Rather than being removed from Usenet, the newsgroup exploded in popularity. For a period during the first half of 1995, the newsgroup was one of the most popular and active ... rights thereto and is viewed by many as a dangerous cult . The newsgroup has become the focal point ... newsgroup was created by Scientology critic Scott Charles Goehring after a discussion with his then girlfriend and a third party. Goehring describes starting the newsgroup because I felt Usenet needed a place to disseminate the truth about this half assed religion and in part as a joke. ref Wired Magazine 1995 3.12 ref Newsday inaccurately reported that Goehring started the newsgroup ... carried the newsgroup. ref name Net.Wars It also led to a declaration of war by Hacker computer security ... needed date January 2009 Rogue cancels and flooding Articles posted to Usenet can be canceled ... numbers of rogue cancels were posted to the newsgroup by a cancelbot dubbed Cancelbunny , mainly ... more details
notability date May 2011 primary sources date May 2011 Spotnet is a protocol on top of Usenet , providing a decentralized alternative to usenet indexing websites, and the NZB format in general. Clients Spotnet articles are placed in a textgroup, which can be headered using any Usenet client, but in order to get the full experience you need a client that is compatible with the protocol, for example Spotnet .NET ref http github.com spotnet spotnet Spotnet ref Spotweb PHP ref http www.github.com spotweb spotweb Spotweb ref Spotlite C ref http www.spotnet.nu download spotlite Spotlite ref Spotted .NET ref http www.uspotted.nl Spotted ref SpotGrit .NET ref http www.spotgrit.org SpotGrit ref Besides searching, most of these clients also have functionality for commenting on these spots, as well as adding new ones to the index. Other clients just implement the protocol, without the community features URD newsreader URD PHP ref http www.urdland.com URD ref BinReader C ref http www.binreader.com BinReader ref Technical details Spotnet is a XML based format, placed in the header of usenet articles. This RSA algorithm RSA signed XML contains metadata about a post a group articles usually found in a .NFO file, like a description genre format, but also references to an accompanying image and zipped NZB file elsewhere on usenet. The Message ID of such an article can serve as a link to the full post similar to Magnet URI , because it indirectly references all required articles. These links can be spread on media like Twitter , without the need for a central server hosting them. For a full specification of the protocol see the http github.com spotnet spotnet wiki Spotnet Wiki . See also NNTP Newsgroup Newsreader Usenet List of Usenet newsreaders Comparison of Usenet newsreaders References Reflist Category Usenet Category Usenet clients Category Internet protocols Category Internet Protocol based network software nl Spotnet ... more details
original research date October 2009 lower case title File Usenet total storage.jpg thumb 346px As of February 14 2012, alt.binaries.boneless is the largest group. With 1000 days retention, the binary Usenet storage which binsearch.info indexes is more than 7 petabyte petabytes 7000 terabyte terabytes . ref cite web url https www.binsearch.info groupinfo.php title Usenet storage is more than 7 petabyte petabytes 7000 terabyte terabytes publisher binsearch.info date accessdate 2012 02 14 ref alt.binaries.boneless is a Usenet discussion forum primarily used to transfer Binary file binary data content, rather than being used for textual communications. It has the unusual distinction of currently being one of the largest and most active binary newsgroups on all of Usenet, typically receiving tens of gigabytes of new data and over a million new postings each day, yet almost nothing is known of its origins or why it is so popular. Typically, newsgroup names are functional in that the name is meant to serve as a guideline as to what type of content can be found in the newsgroup. However, boneless is completely irrelevant, and this appears to hold true as a description of the content, which can include fully Ripping ripped DVD s, entirely ripped CDs or individual music files, images and image sets, as well as software and documents of every content type imaginable. The group s content is likely to be accessed predominantly using NZB NZB files obtained from forums or Usenet indexing services, as downloading group headers would be a highly inefficient process due to the sheer volume of posts made to the group. On March 31, 2009, NewsBin sent out an alert to its users that the alt.binaries.boneless post count is the first to break the 32 bit threshold, having over 4,294,967,296 posts. Until then, all newsgroups post totals could be stored as a 32 bit number. This occurrence might ... Binaries Usenet Warez Category Newsgroups Category Virtual communities Internet stub ... more details
wiktionary XNA XNA or xna may refer to Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport s IATA code X No Archive , a Usenetnewsgroup header Microsoft XNA , a set of free tools and technologies for game developers from Microsoft tt xna tt , the ISO 639 3 language code for Old North Arabian Nucleic acid analogues Xeno Nucleic Acids , artificial genetic materials alternatives to DNA disambiguation de XNA fr XNA ko XNA it XNA ja XNA ... more details
lowercase sci. hierarchy The sci. hierarchy is a major class of newsgroup s in Usenet , containing all newsgroups whose name begins with sci. , organized hierarchically. sci. groups discuss various scientific and research issues. List of sci. groups cellspacing 1 cellpadding 1 border 0 width 100 bgcolor CCCCCC Newsgroup Topic sci.astro astronomy sci.chem chemistry sci.crypt cryptography sci.fractals fractal s and chaos theory sci.geo.earthquakes earthquake s, volcano es, tsunami s, and other geology geological and seismology seismic events sci.geo.geology geology sci.geo.meteorology meteorology and weather phenomena sci.lang language s and linguistics sci.logic logic and mathematical logic sci.math mathematics from arithmetic to high level calculus sci.optics optics and light sciences sci.optics.fiber fiber optics sci.physics physics sci.physics.electromag electromagnetic phenomena sci.physics.relativity Theory of relativity sci.space.policy General spaceflight and space policy Expand list date August 2008 See also List of newsgroups Category Big 8 Usenet Category Internet related lists Newsgroups Category 1987 establishments Category sci. hierarchy ... more details
X No Archive , also known colloquially as xna , is a newsgroup message header field used to prevent a Usenet message from being Usenet Archives archived in various News server servers . Origin The need for X No Archive began when DejaNews debuted in 1995. DejaNews was the first large scale commercial attempt to archive the Usenet news feed, and several newsgroup participants were concerned about privacy rights and about the possibility that their messages could be re posted through DejaNews in the future. DejaNews addressed these concerns by announcing that it would not archive Usenet messages containing the X No Archive header field. How it works X No Archive was designed to follow the standard Header computing message header protocol, Request for Comments RFC 1036 ref http www.w3.org Protocols rfc1036 rfc1036.html 1036 ref and 977, ref http www.w3.org Protocols rfc977 rfc977.html 977 ref used in existing newsgroups. In addition to the standard header fields used in all newsgroup messages including Path , From , Subject , and Date , news reader software allows a user to add optional fields to a header. These additional fields are prefixed with the label X so that they can be ignored by news servers and newsreaders. The phrase No Archive was coined as a way to state Do not archive this message, and the X prefix was added to complete the term X No Archive. The proper field to prevent a message from being archived is X No Archive Yes abbreviated as XNAY . Some software systems also ... to No , or the field is absent, a Usenet archive will not recognize a prohibition on archiving the message ... the X No Archive directive. Beginning in 2005, Google s newsgroup service Google Groups changed ... for view for six days, after which the message is made unavailable in the archive. Other newsgroup archiving ... of both email and Usenet messages. This feature must be manually enabled by editing the mailnews.js ... reflist Category Usenet Category Email de X No Archive it X No Archive pl X No Archive fi X No Archive ... more details
Orphan date September 2010 rec.music.hip hop commonly referred to as RMHH is an Internet Usenetnewsgroup primarily dedicated to the discussion of Rapping rap and hip hop music. RMHH is one of the longest running newsgroups on Usenet for the discussion of rap and hip hop, established in 1995. Group history The newsgroup was proposed and chartered by Steve Flash Juon in 1994 as an effort to expand the discussion of rap and hip hop music on Usenet. Two newsgroups, alt.rap and rec.music.funky , already ... Wide Web has seen a general decline in Usenet discussion over the years, the newsgroup still ... was not as widely distributed due to Usenet servers not carrying all or any of the alt hierarchy, and the discussion ... This newsgroup is to provide a forum for the discussion and dissemination of information specifically relating to hip hop music and culture. This group is meant to replace the newsgroup alt.rap .... Some hold the opinion that the newsgroup should deal with funk music alone, and that the large ... hierarchy, we formally establish that rap IS indeed a form of music. Periodically the alt newsgroup ... of coverage and traffic our newsgroup receives. blockquote Passage & creation of RMHH The first ... The first post to the newsgroup was made by Steve Juon on February 3, 1995, a http groups.google.com ... hop FAQ . Impact on the Usenet community With the successful proposal and creation of RMHH, subscribers to the alt.rap newsgroup were encouraged to discontinue their participation in alt.rap. Subsequently, traffic to the alt.rap newsgroup fell by nearly 79 within the first two months of RMHH s establishment. Although the total number of posts to the alt.rap newsgroup did recover for a few ... the newsgroup has 116,074 posts http groups.google.com group rec.music.hip hop about , and is categorized as a High Activity newsgroup. The most messages the newsgroup received was 8030 in June 2003 ... newsgroup established an official website for itself, rmhh.com, in 1998. Originally managed by RMHH ... more details
Sporgery is the disruptive act of posting a flood of articles to a Usenetnewsgroup , with the article headers falsified so that they appear to have been posted by others. The word is a portmanteau of spam electronic spam and forgery , coined by German software developer and critic of Scientology Tilman ... posting sporgeries into the newsgroup, dumping into USENET an average of 170 megabytes in 44,075 articles ... Portal box Internet Scientology Newsgroup spam Spamming Joe job Cleanfeed Usenet spam filter Cleanfeed ... last Rutter title Gibbering clones the future of Usenet? url http www.dansdata.com sporge.htm format ... so they appear to come from newsgroup regulars. The purpose is not merely to jam the forum, but also ... in alt.religion.scientology The word sporgery was coined in the newsgroup alt.religion.scientology ... Usenet, January 18, 1999, by Tilman Hausherr publisher Groups.google.de date 1999 01 18 accessdate 2010 03 18 ref an Internet newsgroup where people discuss the controversial belief system of Scientology ... involved various individuals who had posted more than one million forged newsgroup articles to the newsgroup, using the message headers valid names and e mail addresses of articles written ... articles harvested from racism racist newsgroups. The result was to flood the newsgroup with over ... needed date September 2009 The apparent intent of this attack was to render the newsgroup ... detected that figure does not include the sporgery which was canceled deleted from USENET before it could propagate. Just before the sporgery attack ended, the sporgery resulted in more than 90 of the newsgroup ... to acquire newsgroup posting access, and the method that was used the most, was to use volunteers to go ... sporgery attacks Since the emergence of this technique of disrupting a newsgroup, a few other ... and other email abuse problems. A person or persons using the pseudonym Hipcrime Usenet Hipcrime ... Category Spamming Category Usenet Category Scientology versus the Internet ... more details
primary sources date November 2009 Infobox Company company name Astraweb, Inc. company logo Image Astraweb logo.png 220px company type Private company Private foundation 1997 key people num employees industry Telecommunication s products Usenet homepage http www.astraweb.com www.astraweb.com Astraweb is a Usenet newsgroup service provider. Founded in 1997, Astraweb service is available to individual users through a subscription model and as an outsourced service to Internet service providers . Notably Astraweb was responsible for the huge increase of retention on almost all big Usenet services, which was triggered by their announcement to keep files for up to 270 days in December 2008. As of late December 2011, retention time for files was for up to 1231 days ref http www.news.astraweb.com tools stats.html Astraweb Statistics ref . References See Wikipedia Footnotes on how to create references using ref ref tags which will then appear here automatically Reflist External links http www.ralree.com 2009 01 17 giganews vs astraweb Giganews vs. Astraweb http filesharingtalk.com vb3 f general newsgroups 79 t astraweb vs giganews 367427 Astraweb vs. Giganews http www.shareconnector.com astraweb usenet server review ShareConnector s Astraweb Review http usenetreviews.info astraweb Review which notes on Astrawebs role in the retention war Categories Category Usenet servers ... more details
This is a partial list of newsgroups that are significant for their popularity or their position in Usenet history. As of October 2002 , there are about 100,000 Usenetnewsgroup s, of which approximately a fifth are active. Citation needed date February 2007 This number varies, depending on the news server carrying the newsgroups. The Big 8 hierarchies These are the most widely distributed and carefully controlled newsgroup hierarchies. See Big 8 Usenet and the Great Renaming for more information. comp See also comp. hierarchy Computer related topics. humanities Topics related to the humanities fine arts, literature, philosophy, Classical Latin , etc. . misc Miscellaneous topics. Examples include misc.legal.moderated A moderated legal forum. misc.taxes.moderated &mdash A moderated professional tax forum open to the general public. news Matters related to the functioning of Usenet itself. Examples include news.admin.net abuse.blocklisting &mdash discussion related to the use of blocklists to deal with spam and other unwanted network traffic. news.admin.net abuse.email &mdash discussion ... newsgroup. rec.arts.tv.soaps.cbs discussion about soap operas broadcast by the CBS television network ... include talk.bizarre &mdash a newsgroup for experiencing the bizarre. talk.origins &mdash evolution ... This is the most extensive newsgroup hierarchy outside of the Big 8. Examples include alt.2600 ... . alt.fan &mdash fandom discussions. alt.gothic &mdash a gothic newsgroup and birthplace of Convergence goth festival Convergence alt.horology This Internet newsgroup concerns all aspects of horology .... alt.sex &mdash the first alt. newsgroup for discussion of sexual topics. alt.sex.bondage &mdash discussion of BDSM sex. alt.sex.cancel &mdash set up specifically as a means of defeating newsgroup ... words, grammar, etymology alt.usenet.kooks &mdash discussion of Usenet crank person kook s and their idiosyncratic ... zine s . Other newsgroups These newsgroups fall outside of the official Big 8 Usenet Big 8 hierarchies ... more details
Refimprove date October 2009 Kibology is a parody religion . It grew out of the Usenetnewsgroup alt.religion.kibology named after James Parry Kibo , ref cite book last Baczewski first Philip editor Philip Baczewski title Tricks of the Internet Gurus edition 1 year 1994 publisher Sams Publishing location Indianapolis quote one Usenet group named for him, alt.religion.kibology, has at least 88,000 subscribers. isbn 0 672 30599 2 lccn 9467090 ref ref name H jsgaardWarburg2005 cite book author1 Morten T. H jsgaard author2 Margit Warburg title Religion and cyberspace url http books.google.com books?id gyJIIncdSGoC&pg PA55 accessdate 6 August 2011 year 2005 publisher Routledge isbn 978 0 415 35767 8 page 55 56 ref the central figure. Practitioners of Kibology are called Kibologists or sometimes more disdainfully Kibozos . James Parry James Kibo Parry and his friends began Kibology about 1989 at the suggestion of Mark Jason Dominus . In its early Usenet days it was centered in the newsgroups talk.bizarre and Church of the SubGenius alt.slack , until the creation of alt.religion.kibology in late 1991. The faux religion aspect faded in the mid 1990s, and the newsgroup became oriented to the sense of humor of Kibo and his followers . The newsgroup also follows various internet mad scientist s and crackpots such as Usenet celebrity Eccentric believers Archimedes Plutonium , Kurt Stocklmeir, and Time Cube inventor Gene Ray with a mixture of mockery and appreciation for the unintended humor they produce. A similar Internet phenomenon exists surrounding the Church of the SubGenius . Some ... kibo.com &mdash Kibo s website http www.geocities.com athens 6270 kibosig.html Kibo s usenet signature http groups.google.com group alt.religion.kibology The alt.religion.kibology newsgroup via Google ... Another collection of posts from the newsgroup, saved for various reasons or none at all. http www.wiblovia.com ... Usenet fi Kibologia sv Kibologi ... more details
lowercase title alt.sex alt.sex is a Usenetnewsgroup a discussion group within the Usenet network relating to human sexual activity . It was popular in the 1990s. An October 1993 survey by Brian Reid reported an estimated worldwide readership for the tt alt.sex tt newsgroup of 3.3 million, that being 8 of the total Usenet readership, with 67 of all Usenet nodes news servers users log into to access the system carrying the group. At that time tt alt.sex tt had an estimated traffic of 2,300 messages per month. ref name Shade cite book title Cultures of Internet editor Rob Shields chapter Is there Free Speech on the Net? Censorship in the Global Information Infrastructure author Leslie Regan Shade pages 13&ndash 17 year 1996 publisher Sage Publications isbn 0 8039 8805 2 ref The newsgroup hierarchy below tt alt.sex tt comprises several newsgroups, including tt alt.sex.stories tt which is the biggest newsgroup in the hierarchy after tt alt.sex tt itself , tt alt.sex.pictures tt , tt alt.sex.blondes tt , tt alt.sex.bondage tt , tt alt.sex.bestiality tt , and even tt alt.sex.rape tt . The former ... may have violated the Criminal Code of Canada . ref name Shade tt alt.sex.cancel tt is a Usenetnewsgroup set up specifically to help combat newsgroup spam crossposting cross posted to the entire alt.sex hierarchy. The newsgroup is a simple spamtrap a trap used to collect samples of unsolicited messages that can then be acted on by an automated anti spam system. According to its newsgroup charter ... issue 2 pages 19&ndash 37 External links http www.faqs.org faqs by newsgroup alt alt.sex.html alt.sex Newsgroup FAQs GoogleGroups alt.sex.bondage alt.sex.bondage group on Google DEFAULTSORT Alt.Sex Category Usenet alt. hierarchy Category Newsgroup hierarchies Category Sexuality and computers Category ... the Melissa virus , was originally distributed via the tt alt.sex tt newsgroup. It was hidden inside ... Reid year 1993 title Usenet readership summary report location Palo Alto CA publisher Network Measurement ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 lowercase title alt.fan.warlord alt.fan.warlord is a Usenetnewsgroup dedicated to the dissection and Flaming Internet flaming of signature block signature files sigs used in other Usenet groups. The newsgroup was best known during the early and mid 1990s, and can no longer be considered active. In its time, it was a notable underground Internet phenomenon . For the most part, alt.fan.warlord targeted sigs that violated a principle of Usenet netiquette known as the McQuary limit &mdash i.e., the rule that a sig should be less than 80 columns wide preferably 72 or less , and no longer than four lines. This limit kept Usenet messages reasonably short, conserving Bandwidth computing bandwidth , and ensured that an 80 column computer terminal terminal &mdash the most common display device display type &mdash could display the sig properly without text wrapping to the following lines. The McQuary limit, sometimes referred to as the McQ limit and often misspelled McQuarry, was named after George F. McQuary, a frequent contributor to alt.fan.warlord. Signatures in violation of the McQ limit sometimes stretched to hundreds of lines in length, including things such as ASCII art work or long collections of favorite quotations &mdash but no relevant information. In extreme cases, a signature could be several times as long as the post to which it was attached. A Usenet user with the pseudonym handle Death Star, War Lord of the West became infamous among certain circles in the Usenet community for possessing such a sig. The process of mocking this signature became known as warlording. This usage was later extended to the dissection and mockery of any excessive signature block. The newsgroup alt.fan.warlord was established as a forum for warlording, and its regulars continued to mock or flame any Usenet sigs they found ugly or impractical. ref name AFW http ... of Australia n Usenet denizens, maps of Australia often with the city of Perth, Western Australia ... more details
url http www.newshosting.com telus en telus newshosting faq.php title Usenetnewsgroup access with highest retention and completion Best Usenet Value publisher Newshosting.com date April 14 2008 accessdate ... The Jargon File version 4.4.7 accessdate 2008 09 13 ref is a Usenet slang expression, coined by Dave ... has continuously degraded standards of discourse and behavior on Usenet and the wider Internet. The term is so well entrenched that one online project providing access to Usenet feeds calls itself ... ends. . ref http www.eternal september.org Eternal September.org ref Background Usenet originated among ... university freshmen acquired access to Usenet for the first time, and took some time to acclimate ... Usenet access to its tens of thousands, and later millions, of users. To many old timers , these newcomers ... because the new services made little effort to educate its users about Usenet customs, or to explain ... the existing Usenet culture s capacity to inculcate its social norm s. ref http www.nyupress.org ... has brought a constant stream of new users. Thus, from the point of view of the pre 1993 Usenet user ... as the September that never ended. ref name firstuse cite newsgroup title Weeks? hah author Dave Fischer date January 26 1994 newsgroup alt.folklore.computers id 94204205851.dave.22710 40gilly.cca.org ... en telus newshosting faq.php archivedate May 22 2008 ref and others have dropped Usenet altogether Comcast , ref name comcast AT&T ref name att cite web title ATT Announces Discontinuation of USENETNewsgroup Services url http www.newsdemon.com blog 2009 06 09 att announces discontinuation of usenetnewsgroup services publisher NewsDemon date June 9 2009 accessdate 2009 06 18 ref . On February 9, 2005, AOL discontinued newsgroup access through its service, which it announced on January 25, 2005 ... news url http slashdot.org article.pl?sid 05 01 25 1628233 title AOL Kills Usenet Access work Slashdot date January 25 2005 accessdate 2007 03 23 ref On September 16, 2008, Comcast discontinued newsgroup ... more details
The Great Renaming was a restructuring of Usenetnewsgroup s that took place in 1987. B News maintainer and UUNET founder Rick Adams Internet pioneer Rick Adams is generally considered to be the initiator of the Renaming. Motivation The primary reason for the Great Renaming was said to be the difficulty of maintaining a list of all the existing groups. ref name livinginternet.com cite web url http livinginternet.com u ui modern.htm title Modern UsenetNewsgroup Hierarchies History publisher Livinginternet.com date 28 September 1993 accessdate 31 August 2009 ref An alternative explanation was that Europe an networks refused to pay for some of the high volume and low content groups such as those ... cite web url http rs79.vrx.net works usenet hardy title Hardy, History of the Net publisher Rs79.vrx.net ... to be rather haphazard. ref cite web url http www.linux.it md usenet gr.html title The Great Renaming ... instrumental in this reorganization of Usenet since they had great influence with respect to supporting a new newsgroup. Some suggest that members of the cabal had interests in bundling certain ... 8 Usenet Big Seven , were open and free for anyone to participate in except for the moderated newsgroups ... other popular hierarchies remained on Usenet as well, such as the k12. hierarchy, which covers topics ... tending formal hierarchies, the So You Want to Create an Alt Newsgroup FAQ jokes that the name alt is an acronym ... Newsgroup accessdate 27 May 2007 date 12 July 2008 ref During the mid 1990s, Citation needed date November 2008 when Usenet traffic grew significantly, particularly in academia, the humanities. hierarchy ... hierarchies created by the Renaming, compose today s so called Big 8 Usenet Big 8 . Further reading cite newsgroup title Comments on Reorganization author Gene Spafford date Wed, 17 September 1986 21 53 00 EDT newsgroup net.news id gatech.4558 url http groups.google.com groups?selm 4558 gatech.CSNET accessdate 2011 Oct 24 References Portal Internet reflist Category Usenet use dmy dates date March ... more details
lowercase alt.binaries.slack is a Usenetnewsgroup ref cite book last Braun first Eric Eugene authorlink ... newsgroup participants. Shortly after its creation, cn span via forged Usenet control messages date ... 4389 0831 8 pages 84 85 ref the newsgroup was targeted by warez traders, who tried to use it for the distribution of pirated commercial software. The users of the newsgroup responded by forming their own internal police force for the newsgroup, known as the SubGenius Police, Usenet Tactical Unit ... magazine Wired magazine publisher Cond Nast Publications ref ref name 10,000 Newsgroup Postings Deleted cite web url http www.pcworld.com article 5510 10000 newsgroup postings deleted.html title 10,000 Newsgroup Postings Deleted Usenet Cancel Engine permits deliberate destruction of Usenet postings ... Directory A Guide to Internet, Usenet, and Bitnet edition 1st date 1993 11 02 publisher Ballantine ... cite newsgroup title PROPOSAL alt.slack.multimedia author modemac netcom.com Modemac date 1995 01 30 newsgroup alt.config id modemacD38qJz.3tC netcom.com url http groups.google.com group alt.config ... sick and twisted humor, the newsgroup is also home to artists who post humorous artwork of all sorts ... denizens of the newsgroup state that they enjoy deliberately offending those who are too easily offended. In spite of the crude nature of some of the pictures and sounds posted to the newsgroup, many ... in images by many artists. Proper etiquette on the newsgroup dictates that credit be given where it is due ... of Internet savvy people embarked on a successful campaign to drive the warez traders out of the newsgroup ... on having one of the most spam free binaries newsgroups on Usenet. ref name Wired Magazine Not in My Newsgroup cite web url http www.wired.com culture lifestyle news 1997 04 2921 title Not in My Newsgroup accessdate 2009 05 23 last Frauenfelder first Mark authorlink Mark Frauenfelder date 1997 ... PC World publisher IDG ref erupted between newsgroup users and Mike Enlow , the self proclaimed ... more details
lowercase title talk.origins talk.origins often capitalised to Talk.Origins or abbreviated as t.o. is a Usenet Moderated and unmoderated newsgroups moderated Usenet discussion Internet forum forum concerning the origins of life , and evolution . It remains a major venue for debate in the creation evolution controversy , and its official purpose is to draw such debates out of the science newsgroup s, such as sci.bio.evolution. History The first post to talk.origins was a starter post by Mary Ann Horton Mark Horton , dated 5 September 1986. ref name first cite newsgroup title starter message for talk.origins author Mary Ann Horton Horton, Mark date 5 September 1986 newsgroup talk.origins id 2518 cbosgd.UUCP url http groups.google.com group talk.origins msg 522447ebebbe9bd6 accessdate 9 September 2009 ref In the early 1990s, a number of FAQ s on various topics were being periodically posted to the newsgroup . In 1994, Brett J. Vickers established an anonymous File Transfer Protocol FTP site to host the collected FAQ s of the newsgroup. In 1995, Vickers started the TalkOrigins Archive web site as another means of hosting the talk.origins FAQs. It maintains an extensive FAQ on topics in evolutionary biology , geology and astronomy , with the aim of representing the views of mainstream science . It has spawned other websites, notably TalkDesign a response to the intelligent design movement ... newsgroup net.origins as a dumping ground for all the various flame threads polluting other newsgroups, then renamed to talk.origins as part of the Great Renaming . Subsequently, after discussion on the newsgroup, the group was voted to be moderated in 1997 by the normal USENET RFD CFV process, in which only spam electronic spam and excessive crossposting are censored. The moderator for the newsgroup ... what , or some such. , ref name chezwatt cite newsgroup title Re Chez Watt was Re I am a creationist author Grumbine, Robert date 5 May 2005 newsgroup talk.origins id 117k8aqod3nhr85 corp.supernews.com ... more details
lowercase comp. hierarchy The comp. hierarchy is a major class of newsgroup s in Usenet , containing all newsgroups whose name begins with comp. , organized hierarchically. comp. groups discuss various computer, technology, and programming issues. Some groups can even offer peer to peer technical support. Partial list of comp. groups cellspacing 1 cellpadding 1 border 0 width 100 bgcolor CCCCCC Newsgroup Topic comp.ai artificial intelligence comp.dcom.telecom telecommunications systems comp.dsp Digital signal processing comp.graphics.apps.photoshop Adobe Photoshop , Illustrator , and Adobe InDesign InDesign . comp.graphics.api.opengl OpenGL comp.internet.services.wiki Wiki s, such as Wikipedia comp.lang.asm.x86 assembly language for x86 based computer systems. comp.lang.c C programming language C programming language comp.lang.C Plus Plus comp.lang.c C programming language comp.lang.java.help Java programming language Java programming language help comp.lang.javascript Javascript programming language comp.lang.perl.misc Perl programming language comp.lang.python Python programming language Python programming language comp.os.linux.misc Linux operating system comp.os.minix Minix operating system comp.programming Miscellaneous discussion of programming comp.robotics.misc All aspects of robot s and their applications comp.robotics.research Academic, government and industry research in robotics comp.software eng software engineering comp.soft sys.matlab MathWorks calculation and visualization package comp.sources.d any computer sources comp.sources.wanted Requests for software and bug fixes comp.theory Theoretical computer science comp.theory.cell automata cellular automata comp.theory.self ... 0 width 100 bgcolor CCCCCC Newsgroup Topic comp.sources.unix Postings of public domain sources ... newsgroup hierarchy comp the comp. hierarchy at Giganews Category Internet related lists Newsgroups Category 1987 establishments Category Big 8 Usenet ... more details
lowercase alt. hierarchy The alt. hierarchy is a major class of newsgroup s in Usenet , containing all ... alt index.htm How to create an ALT newsgroup DEFAULTSORT Alt. Hierarchy Category Usenet alt. hierarchy ... control of the hierarchy and anyone who is technically capable of creating a newsgroup can do ... understand what factors contribute to a newsgroup s success. It is up to each individual news administrator whether to add a new newsgroup, and some will not do so if the group has not been discussed .... News group removal in theory occurs in much the same way as newsgroup creation, however as a matter ... is tied to a drastic transformation of the Usenet, the Great Renaming of 1987. The backbone carriers , or the backbone cabal as they have been referred to by some users of the Usenet , were vital hubs in the distribution chain of most of the newsgroup postings. Their effort to change the way newsgroups are organized led to objections from some vocal Usenet users. In particular, the creation ... u ui alt.htm Alt Hierarchy History Brian Reid, Usenet Newsgroups, Backbone Administrators ... from backbones influences on creating or not creating a new newsgroup. The first newsgroup on alt ... to Create an Alt Newsgroup FAQ repeats a common joke that the name alt is an acronym for Anarchists ... Want to Create an Alt Newsgroup accessdate 2007 05 27 date 2008 07 12 ref Alt has since become home ... in the alt. hierarchy than the Big 8 Usenet Big Eight . Because of the inevitably lurid and sometimes offensive subjects that it would cover, newsgroup administrators objected to the inclusion of one ... of preference in the original Usenet hierarchies, including alt. , is English language ... attorney general forces ISPs to curb Usenet access Politics and Law CNET News June 10, 2008 12 09 PM ... http news.cnet.com 8301 13578 3 9967119 38.html Verizon offers details of Usenet deletion alt. groups ... through a third party Usenet service. In the same time frame, AT&T s United States based consumer ... more details
About the NNTP news server the term used for a Tree data structure tree leaf node orphan date July 2010 Leafnode is a store and forward Network News Transfer Protocol NNTP or Usenet proxy server designed for small sites with just a few active newsgroup s, but very easy to set up and maintain, when compared to InterNetNews INN . Originally created by Arnt Gulbrandsen ref cite web url http leafnode.sourceforge.net wuerzburg faq.html 20 work Leafnode last Krasel first Cornelius accessdate 2006 08 15 title Leafnode FAQ ref in 1995 while he was working at Trolltech , it is currently maintained by Matthias Andree and Ralf Wildenhues. References Reflist External links http leafnode.sourceforge.net Leafnode at SourceForge.org http www.linux.ie articles tutorials leafnode.php Installing and Configuring LeafNode Category Usenet servers compu network stub fr Leafnode ... more details
Big 8 or Big Eight may refer to People Brendan Bowyer The Big Eight , an Irish showband Sports Big 8 Conference Missouri , an American athletic association Big Eight Conference , a former American athletic association Big Eight Conference IHSAA , an American athletic association WIAA Big Eight Conference , an American athletic association Other uses Big 8 Usenet , a group of Usenet newsgroup hierarchies Big 8 Cola , a Canadian soft drink Big Eight auditors , a group of accounting firms that have since been reduced to the Big Four Big Eight film studios , a group of American film studios Big Eight States , the eight largest states in the United States CKLW , a Canadian Radio station formerly known as The Big 8 See also Big One disambiguation Big Three disambiguation Big Four disambiguation Big Five disambiguation Big Six disambiguation Big Seven disambiguation Big Ten disambiguation Big 11 Big 12 disambig Category Numeric epithets 8 fr Big 8 ... more details
Big Seven or Big 7 may refer to In sports International Ice Hockey Federation Big Seven ice hockey , the seven major men s international ice hockey teams Canada, USA, Sweden, Finland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Russia Big Seven, an unofficial name the Mountain States Conference , also known as the Skyline Conference, from 1938 to 1946 Big Seven Conference, later the Big Eight Conference , an unofficial name for Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association, when it had seven teams from 1948 until 1957 Other Big Seven , a 1993 release from The Supernaturals Big 8 Usenet , formerly Big 7, a group of Usenet newsgroup hierarchies Big Seven United States , an influential group of US nonprofits for state and local government officials See also Big One disambiguation Big Three disambiguation Big Four disambiguation Big Five disambiguation Big Six disambiguation Big Eight disambiguation Big Ten disambiguation disambig Category Numeric epithets Seven ... more details
the term in the USENETnewsgroup news.admin.policy to describe an out of control automated robo moderation system known as ARMM Usenet ARMM . While he didn t coin the phrase, he appears to have been the first to use it to describe the phenomenon as it applied to USENET newsgroups. Furr created a line of Usenet kook T shirts, which included a Serdar Argic World Tour shirt as well as one imprinted ... 1967 births Category Living people Category People from Roanoke, Virginia Category Usenet people Category ... more details
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