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Usenet... called Netnews, is the world's largest discussion forum and it is doubling in size every year. There are Usenet discussion groups on every imaginable topic, from the technical and scientific, to the political and religious, and onto the truly bizarre and arcane. If you simply use the Netnews system, all of this discussion can be interesting and entertaining. But if you're a system administrator who has to set up and run a Netnews system, you suddenly have the unenviable task of making sure that your system can handle a data flow of thousands of megabytes per day. Unfortunately, Usenet administration is one area of network administration that is still learned primarily by word-of-mouth and Internet folklore. That is, until now.
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Usenet is the internet version of the computer bulletin board, where individuals can post messages, respond, or read discussions on a single topic. To view a Usenet group, an individual must have access to a news group server and must have their browser or other software to view and post.
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In its simplest form, Usenet represents democracy, or the right to share almost everything that could be possibly shared from a computer. Most of the material in Usenet is contributed by the same people who actively read Usenet. Thus, the Usenet audience chooses the content and subject matter to be thought about, presented, and debated. In this way, Usenet is a worldwide uncensored forum for debate and informational exchange where many sides of an issue come into view. Rather than being force-fed by an uncontrollable power, the participants set the tone and emphasis of the different groups in Usenet. Without the time and effort put in by its users, Usenet would not be the democratic and resourceful informational forum it is today
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The servers in the Usenet community are independent in the sense that each gets to decide what portions of the Usenet they will serve to their users and how long postings will last on the server. For example, some servers may leave out the adult groups. Because postings have to be transmitted from computer to computer, a given posting takes some time to be available on all servers. Further, they may disappear from active groups on busy servers in a matter of days or weeks.
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Usenet is ontwikkeld in de University of North Carolina. Waarom dat ze de naam Usenet hebben gekozen is om de aandacht te trekken van de organisatie USENIX. Usenix associatie is een Advanced Computing Technical Association. Het is ontstaan in 1975 onder de naam Unix Users Group. Het focust zich voornamelijk op de ontwikkeling van Unix systemen of gelijkaardige systemen. Het is een gerespecteerde groep van mensen bestaand uit ontwikkelaars, onderzoekers en gebruikers van besturing systemen.
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Usenet was designed from the ground-up to be simple to access and adapt to the desires of its users. The current state of Usenet is an excellent sign of that, as the network now handles the duty of hosting an abundance of files as well as the discussion groups that laid the groundwork for its current success.
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