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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.
| Beginner's Quick Start - Usenet Guides | ||||
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| Help Choosing a Usenet Provider Help Choosing a Newsreader Client Newsreader Setup Guides News Server Addresses and Ports |
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Video Usenet Tutorial Series |
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| Newsbin Pro Newsleecher Alt.binz Grabit SABnzbd+ Forte Agent |
Bintube News Rover Binary Boy Xnews ThunderBird Outlook Express |
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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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| Online Usenet / Newsgroup Resources | ||||
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| Usenet University Usenet History Newsgroups Directory Wikipedia - Usenet DMOZ - Usenet Asian Usenet Tutorial Usenet Terms Defined |
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