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In article <1992Sep30.045453.8563@wolves.uucp> news@wolves.durham.nc.us writes:
>
>Some BBS programs allow the individual BBS systems to share messages by
>using a communications medium to exchange the messages via a standard
>protocol which the BBSes understand.  Such systems are "networked"
>BBSes.  There are several BBS Networks around the world. Among them are
>FIDOnet, WWIVnet, RIMEnet, VNET and Usenet.
>                                    ^^^^^^

	Where is the Internet??  That is one of the major ones...
and, by your definitions, the Internet is as much of a BBS network
as Usenet is.
	
>From: news@wolves.durham.nc.us
>Date: Mon Sep 28 23:00:00 EDT 1992
>Subject: 3. What is Usenet?
>
>Usenet is a network message sharing system that exchanges messages in a
>standard format.  Messages are arranged into topical categories called
>newsgroups.  The messages contain plain text information (which may
>include encoded binary information) and a series of headers that define
>who the message came from, when the message was posted, where it was
>posted, where it has passed, and other administrative information.
>
>Properly speaking, Usenet is defined as newsgroups in the major
>categories of comp, misc, news, rec, sci, soc, and talk.  There are a
>number of other major "hierarchies" which may be worldwide (alt, bionet,
>vmsnet) or may be regional (usa, can, triangle) or even organizational
>(duke, ut, sun).
>
>There is not enough room here to fully discuss the ins and outs of
>Usenet.  There are several Usenet groups that are dedicated to
>discussion of Usenet itself.  (news.* and alt.culture.usenet are
>examples, the `*' refers to any newsgroup that begins its name with a
>string of "news.")
>

	Wait a minute!!  Usenet is much more then just the newsgroups!!
You are right, it is difficult to fully discuss the ins and outs of
Usenet, but it is not *JUST* newsgroups!!  IMHO, Usenet was the
predecessor for Internet, the main difference between the two
is the fact that the Internet involves *DIRECT* system connections
as opposed to going through a modem.  Alot of things have changed
since the birth of Internet, but, in a lot of places, a Usenet site
gets its main connection from the Internet; Usenet sites archive
and distribute files, like Internet; Usenet sites distribute 
private email, like Internet; some Usenet sites even offer anon UUCP,
same as Internet's anon ftp; in fact, about the only main difference
*I* can really see between Usenet and the Internet is that Usenet
isn't as *FAST* due to the modems.

>	UnixBBS <---renamed to Uniboard since UnixBBS was too generic


My thoughts...

Marc

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