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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.

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