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Beginner's Guide to Newsgroups
The purpose of our Usenet tutorial section is to provide you with information and resources to better understand newsgroups. Whether you want to get setup and running quickly or your looking to dive in and learn more about the history of Usenet this section provides all the necessary links. The tutorial is broken into sections so that you can pick and choose based on your Usenet experience and interests.
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Help finding a Usenet provider and newsreader: Usenet Providers - Choosing a Usenet Newsgroup Providder Newsreader Software - Tips for Choosing a Usenet Newsreader Newsreader Setup - Step by Step Newsreader Setup Guides -------------------------------------------------------------------- Help using newsgroups and associated utilities: RAR Files - How to use WinRAR for extracting/UnRAR PAR Files - How to Use QuickPar to Repair RAR Files |
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Video Usenet Tutorial Series |
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Newsreader Setup Guides by Usenet Client |
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| History of Usenet | ||||
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| Tom Truscott - April 2007 Interview Jim Ellis - created Usenet with Tom Truscott Steve Bellovin - wrote the first news software Dr. Mary-Ann Horton - designed B News software Rick Adams - maintained B News from 1983 to 1989 Dr. Gene Spafford - originally organized the Backbone Cabal Phil Lapsley - NNTP co-author - May 2007 interview Brian Kantor - NNTP co-author - June 2007 interview Erik Fair - NNTP co-author Dr. Brian Reid - alt.* hierarchy - March 2007 interview John Gilmore - alt.* hierarchy - April 2007 interview Henry Spencer - co-author of C News - May 2007 interview Geoff Collyer - co-author of C News - March 2007 interview |
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| Usenet University Usenet History Newsgroups Directory Wikipedia - Usenet DMOZ - Usenet Asian Usenet Tutorial Usenet Terms Defined |
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