Usenet Servers

Usenet Access (50908) - UPDATE
This is an update to the previously reported problem preventing access to our news servers. A copy of the last announcement can be seen here:- http://usertools.plus.net/status/archive/1207667961.htm We believe that we have now arrived ...

Open Question: What can I use to view newsgroups instead of ...
I remember when there were tens of thousands of users at once. Now the IRC servers that are left are nearly empty. It's like a ghost town in there. And USENET is fading away, too. Why don't people discuss things on newsgroups anymore? ...

Peer To Peer!
The earliest peer-to-peer network in widespread use were the Usenet news servers, which communicated with one another as peers, propagating Usenet news articles over the entire Usenet network, which particularly in the earlier days of ...

W2K3/SP2 -> W2K3/R2
of Windows Server 2003 Enterprise R2 in order to perform upgrade, but the installation media does not incoroporate any Service Pack. Should we expect to be any problems in installing R2 on those servers due to SP mismatch? ...

What is Internet?
Important, separate networks that offered gateways into, then later merged with, the Internet include Usenet and BITNET. Various other commercial and educational networks, such as Telenet, Tymnet, Compuserve and JANET were ...

When setting up message filters...
...when do the message filters start deleting messages on usenet?[/color] You can't delete messages on Usenet. They are stored (for a period of time) on news servers all over the planet. They'll be stored in the archive forever. ...

RFC2616 - Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
It is a generic, stateless, protocol which can be used for many tasks beyond its use for hypertext, such as name servers and distributed object management systems, through extension of its request methods, error codes and headers [47]. ...