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Article #1Re: What is Usenet
From: Tony
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 20:54
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 20:54
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Subject: Re: DSL speed upgrades Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 23:14:35 -0330 From: "J. Conners" <jack.conners@tux.nil> Organization: Datemas.de http://datemas.de Newsgroups: can.internet.highspeed chuckcar wrote: > Senex <Senex@Senex.nex> wrote in > news:mn.8d4b7d6b31a9b371.54228@Senex.nex: > > >>chuckcar stunned us with this revelation on 11/17/2006 : >> >> >> >>>Madonna <nospam@nospam.ca> wrote in news:455e532d$1_1@x-privat.org: >> > > <snipped> > >>Nothing has been "incorrectly quoted". What you have provided is your >>predictable folksey take on things which is invariably incorrect. >>When you get caught out in your false assumptions, you always take >>this agressive defensive posture. You really should learn to observe >>and learn something. There is a lot of expertise in this News Group. >>I've watched and learned a bunch. >> >>Give it up. In this NG I'm certain you are in *way* over your head. >>The knowledge base that I've observed here will ignore you for the >>troll you are. >> > > > I'm certainly *not* the one getting defensive here. That would be *you*. > The *only* quote from me was misquoted/badly edited period. That is > *fact*. The fact of the matter is that the word modem gets it's name > from the two words modulator/demodulator which was my point which you > seem to have completely missed for some inexplicable reason. The fact > that you *didn't* know this *basic* fact means you know absolutely > nothing on this subject and are not even competant to even have an > opinion here, much less point fingers. You don't know me, I have said nothing to be defensive about and you have no notion regarding what I do or do not know. Hence, what you have blurted above is horse hockey. > > What you also seem to fail to realize (if you aren't *yet* another > persona of that Steve Troll) is that there is a kid abusing this group > by posting his own twisted view of vengence under numerous identies such > as Tony, Steve, and varations of that name along with others. Until this > idiot is dealt with, *no* *one* in this group will get anywhere. And that means absolutely nothing to me and has nothing to do with the subject at hand. Mad as a Box of Frogs wrote: > Hot-text <hot-text@hotmail.com> wrote: > >1 About Usenet > >1.1 What is Usenet? > >Usenet is a distributed network which means that the submitted information > >is always available via the fast internet connections from your local Usenet > >Provider. > >Usenet offers the ability to efficiently exchange information among all > >other Usenet users around the globe. > > > >Usenet, which is short for Unix User Network, is one of the oldest > >communication networks, being developed in 1979 and was made available > >before the internet and the World Wide Web were invented. Usenet isn't > >governed by any authority and can be characterized by the absence of a > >central server or administrator. > >Usenet servers distribute all the information they receive among other > >Usenet servers around the world, enabling all Usenet users to have access to > >all information available on the global Usenet. > > > >Usenet was designed to be able to discuss scientific insights and ideas > >among universities and scientific institutions around the world on a broad > >scope. Therefor Usenet was designed to distribute only text messages. In > >1990 a method was introduced to be able to decode files (like documents or > >images) to text, so they could be distributed on the global Usenet. > > > >Every post submitted to Usenet has to be stored by all Usenet servers. This > >results in a continuous flow of new Usenet articles. > >As the Usenet servers storage capacity isn't unlimited, older articles have > >to be removed in order to make room for newer articles. > >The period of time that articles are available is called retention. > >As different Usenet providers have different storage capacities, the > >retention differs per Usenet provider. > >The retention of Usenet services offered by Internet providers (ISPs) is > >significant lower (on average 10-20 days) then the retention offered by > >professional Usenet providers (hundreds of days). > > > >Being one of the oldest networks, Usenet has survived many new innovations. > >At present, Usenet's popularity is still growing, while more and more people > >discover the advantages of using Usenet. As more people are becoming active > >on Usenet, more information is offered to the global Usenet. The daily > >newsfeed (which is the amount of data offered to Usenet on a daily basis) is > >now well beyond 5 terabyte on average (winter 09/10). > > > >Usenet is known by many names. Synonyms for Usenet are Newsgroups, News or > >Newsserver. > > Unix User network huh? Very enlightening. I had no idea what this place > was called.. > > I was told it was the Cesspool. > > > > >http://www.news-service.com/faq.html#faq1.1 > > > > > > -- > "Ward, weren't you a little hard on The Beaver last night?" --June Cleaver -- The Grandmaster of the CyberFROG Come get your ticket to CyberFROG city Nay, Art thou decideth playeth ye simpleton games. *Some* of us know proper manners Very few. I used to take calls from *rank* noobs but got fired the first day on the job for potty mouth, Hamster isn't a newsreader it's a mistake! El-Gonzo Jackson FROGS both me and Chuckcar Master Juba was a black man imitating a white man imitating a black man Using my technical prowess and computer abilities to answer questions beyond the realm of understandability Regards Tony... Making usenet better for everyone everyday
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X-Google-Thread: 4e777fa27a,a3cebfcd8e54e40e X-Google-Attributes: gid4e777fa27a,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: Tony <Tony@TheDeli.Sandwich> Newsgroups: alt.windows98,alt.usenet.kooks,24hoursupport.helpdesk Subject: Re: What is Usenet Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 16:54:43 -0400 Organization: Sultans Of CyberFROG Lines: 139 Message-ID: <4C002D93.5F73BF28@TheDeli.Sandwich> References: <htmp29$9mg$1@speranza.aioe.org> <htn0fc$sb9$1@undertow.eternal-september.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: uJuEd1Qt5LMfg4USsVOR2A.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.8 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2