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- Usenet Portal - Categorized links to web sites concerning technical aspects of usenet, tutorials, open usenet servers, and all aspects of usenet. Reviews and ratings of Usenet providers, articles about newsgroups, and NNTP software suggestions.
- UK Usenet - Homepage of the UK Usenet Committee. Information about usenet newsgroups in the UK.
- USENET Software: History and Sources - A Usenet post by Gene Spafford, archived 9 February 1998 by the Institute of Information and Computing Sciences. A useful historical summary, particularly in terms of the software used for usenet.
- Usenet Info Center Launch Pad - Apparently no longer maintained, but of interest for historical reasons. Besides a list of Usenet newsgroups, also contains links to FAQs, newsgroup descriptions, and other Usenet information.
- How to become a Usenet site - Periodic posting about the basic steps involved in configuring a machine to store USENET news.
- SmR-usenet - Usenet tutorials, FAQs, and reviews of usenet providers. Also providing free posting services via NNTP for text-only newsgroups.
- Freedom Knights of Usenet - Dedicated to free speech, and its implementation on Usenet, an alternative point of view. Information about Usenet sites of Virtue and surviving UDPs.
- Usenet Replayer - Web-based Usenet tools, including news resources archive, news server search, posting and retrieving of Usenet messages, advertising products, and forgery cancellations. Free.
- Jukka Korpela's Material about Usenet - Selection of links to material on Usenet. Editorials by Jukka explaining the workings of Usenet and the reasons for certain conventions.
- Usenet Replayer Wap Gateway - Read-only access to Usenet via a Wap enabled mobile phone or a Wap emulator such as wmlbrowser add-on for Firefox. A usual web browser like Internet Explorer won't work. The Wap (Wireless Access Protocol) is also known as Mobile Web in North America.
Wikipedia Articles
- Usenet Death Penalty - On Usenet, the Usenet Death Penalty (or UDP) is a final penalty that may be issued against Internet service providers or single users who produce too much spam or fail to adhere to Usenet standards. Messages that fall under the jurisdiction of a Usenet Death Penalty will be cancelled.
- Usenet II - Usenet II was a proposed alternative to the classic Usenet hierarchy, started in 1998. Unlike the original Usenet, it was peered only between "sound sites" and employs a system of rules to keep out spam.
- Notable Usenet personalities - A Usenet personality is an individual who has gained a certain level of notoriety from posting on Usenet. Since its inception, Usenet has attracted a wide variety of people posting all manner of fact, fiction, theories, opinions, and beliefs.
- Usenet Salute - The term Usenet Salute refers to the belief that one's post on an electronic bulletin board or similar system has been widely read despite the absence of evidence to support that belief. Posters on the Usenet groups did not receive feedback concerning how many people read their posts.
- Usenet quoting - When Usenet and e-mail users respond to a message, they often want to