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1. Newsgroups -- Articles
   Newsgroups are routinely scanned for e-mail addresses by spammers. This is done by software which examines posted articles and looks in header fields such as From and Reply to for e-mail addresses to add to their lists. This software may try to pick up anything that resembles an e-mail address anywhere in the body of the article -- including the signature line.
2. Usenet -- Articles
   Usenet is Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP), with articles sent from one news server to another like email,. Each article is first stored on that server's hard drive, then forwarded to the server's "mailing list" of other news servers. Each of them in turn stores it on their hard drive, and sends the articles to their list of servers, and so on. Usenet article "packets" ripple out from the originating site, taking varying amounts of time and various routes to travel to you. Usenet was never meant to handle binary material; just ASCII text. To work around this block, methods were devised to convert (encode) binaries into text for posting, and then back to their original binary form (decode) after downloading. Many encoding schemes are available, but UUencode/UUdecode are the most accepted Usenet standards. yEnc is the current "Hot" trend in encoding binaries due to it's reduced transmitted file size.
3. Newspaper Articles
   Access NewspaperARCHIVE is the largest historical newspaper database online, containing tens of millions of newspaper pages from 1759 to present. Every newspaper in the archive is fully searchable by keyword and date, making it easy for you to quickly explore historical content. NewspaperARCHIVE.com is adding newspaper pages faster than you can search them - with one newspaper page added every second - that’s over 80,000 images a day, or about 2.5 million pages per month.
4. News Readers
   Readers of the Dallas Morning News are hardly well served by the new repetition of old slurs. Use of the term "junk mail" as a substitute for "direct mail" is neither accurate nor fair. No less important, readers need to ask if the term "junk mail" represents an institutional conflict-of-interest. (See: "Currency examiners have cash to spare," October 17, 2004)
5. Bbc News
   Earlier, in March 2002 it was announced that the former Financial Times editor, Richard Lambert, was to head a government review into whether BBC News 24 was fulfilling its remit. By August it was complete and while praising improvements made to News 24, it said the channel must become "distinct" from its rivals with a "clearer sense of direction". Mr. Lambert was deeply disapproving of the original News 24 style of presentation. He quoted one insider who said the original set "looked like a car crash in a shower room", and that the short sleeved presenters did not have a sense of authority. One argument seemed to be contradictory. "An absolute determination to be the first to break accurate news must be at the heart of everything the channel does', said the report. But in an era where Sky News were deemed to be the best for breaking news, how can the BBC aim to mimic the success whilst still being distinctive?
6. Headline News
   This morning, CharterX Industry Headline News obtained a letter in which Robert Wells, CEO of Swiss-based TAG Aviation Holding, announced it has agreed to sell its subsidiary, TAG Aviation USA, to Sentient Flight Group, LLC. The announcement comes after the Federal Aviation Administration revoked AMI Jet Charter's air carrier certificate on Oct. 12, under an emergency order. Wells wrote: "This transaction will provide TAG USA with the best possible solution to an ‘operational control' matter related to its affiliated AOC holder, AMI Jet Charter. The operational control issues were largely the result of the structures ofTAG Aviation USA and AMI Jet Charter, mandated by foreign ownership and investment (in the case of AMI) in the companies."
7. Fox News -- Fox News Channel
   The Fox News Channel is a cable company and a satellite news channel that is based in the United States. The channel itself is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group. It is ... known very well as a subsidiary of the New Corporation owned by Rupert Murdoch. The channel itself became available to more than 85 million households in the United States as well as to international viewers in January of 2005. Primarily, Fox News operates out of studious in New York City.
8. Google News -- Sources
   Google News business product manager Josh Cohen called the new system "duplicate detection." In cases where multiple sources carry the same article, the first copy is shown, with credit to the original journalist.
9. News Server -- Newsgroups
   A reader server is one that makes the articles available in the hierarchical disk directory format originated by B News 2.10, or offers the NNTP or IMAP commands, for use by newsreaders. A reader server typically ... works as a transit server, but it may operate independently or serve as an alternative interface to an Internet forum. When receiving news, this type of server must perform the additional steps of filing articles into newsgroups and assigning sequential numbers within each group. An Xref line is usually added, listing all the groups where the message appears and the sequence numbers. Unlike Message IDs, the numbers and ordering of articles will differ on each server; but related servers may force agreement by operating in a slave mode, re-using their siblings' Xref lines. Reader servers typically also maintain a News Overview (NOV) database that allows newsreaders to quickly obtain message summaries and present messages in threaded form.
10. The War at Home -- Fox News
    The general tone of high morale across most war-blogs echoes Greyhawk’s assessment, but the assessments by recruiters at home is more negative. Reflecting on the shortfall in 2005, Army commander for recruitment Maj. Gen. Thomas P. Bostick recently told the New York Times that the Army “has to work harder” to recruit soldiers.

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