Usenet News

Urd is a Web-based Usenet binary download manager. It stores the newsgroup information in a MySQL database and aggregates the articles into sets of a single download .

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The annoyances it handles include mailing list footers, signatures, TOFU, sequences of blank lines, and repeated punctuation.

The Usenet can be best described to users who have never come in contact with it as a global forum with hundreds of thousands of groups and the ability for everyone to post and reply.

Abstract The social Web is a set of ties that enable people to socialize online, a phenomenon that has existed since the early days of the Internet in environments like IRC, MUDs, and Usenet .

What a decade it's been! From Napster to BitTorrent, from RazorBack2 to The Pirate Bay, so many P2P communities have come and gone.

Mozilla has released Thunderbird 3. You can read the release notes , or download the darn thing .

B L Ochman has an interesting post claiming that you don't need to ask six to 20 questions as scores of blog posts claim , but you need to ask just two: 1) Do they walk the walk? "If your key agency people are not participating as thought leaders in the space, should they be advising you? They need street cred themselves." Ed Nicholson, Director ...

Today, the Mac GUI Vault collection is excited to have expanded its Usenet archive to include a quarter of a million Usenet posts from the 80's and early 90's on the Apple II and Macintosh.

Earlier this year, we noted that the Dutch Usenet community FTD was suing BREIN, the local "anti-piracy" group, for suggesting that FTD was a criminal operation.

Google Apps has a new app, Google Groups, the company's online message board and mailing list service.

Re: Scott McLemee: A Wildly Weak and Untrained Mind "When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It!" -- Ben Yagoda 4:24 PM ed said... It gets even funnier.

From : Armenian News Network Date : Fri, 4 Dec 2009 17:00:03 -0800 Dear Groong readers, We bring to your attention the following letters we've received.

Entry from December 01, 2009 Nontroversy A "nontroversy" is a non-controversy or nonissue.

Connections are a ' or at least were a ' a hot button issue for the newsgroup community.

Darknets, Freenet, or whatever it is called this round is a neat tool. It is not very user-friendly, though.

I ran across a reference to an open source/open hardware logic analyzer at comp.arch.fpga . . So it got me thinking about open source test equipment.

LottaNZB aims to simplify and automate the download of binary news from Usenet You can tell LottaNZB what to download using NZB files, which are created by many Usenet search engines.

Easynews , the world's original web-based Usenet site, announced their first annual Black Friday special, offering half price plan upgrades for all current and new subscribers.

This Black Friday, UseNetServer is offering new subscribers its finest Usenet access with UNS High-Speed Plus for only $5.00 for the first month of subscription.