Meaning of Usenet | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of Usenet.
   alt-of
2. A world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups that are classified hierarchically by subject.
   Internet

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Examples

“And as the Carnegie Mellon study⟳ is careful to point⟳ out, pornographic image files, despite their evident popularity, represent⟳ only about 3% of all the messages on the Usenet newsgroups, while the Usenet itself represents only 11.5% of the traffic on the Internet.”

“Flames are, unfortunately, a fact of USENET life. It's a rare USENET regular who hasn't been shaken to the foundations with anger at something some jerk has posted.”

“Back when I first started using USENET, you couldn't use⟳ it unless you were 18+ : no dial-up accounts then, only students, professors and corporate types. The invasion of the dial-up accounts in the 90's and the comparisons with the new terms at Uni's/Colleges - forming the basis of "the never ending September" phrase :-(”

“One man I exchanged e-mail with, an engineer for Ford, said "I'd personally be LOST without USENET. Not so much the alt groups (although I DO lurk in several groups there) as the comp.* hierarchy. I've turned down jobs where I couldn't get⟳ unrestricted Net-access. Comp.unix.* and comp.lang.* have⟳ saved many a project for me.[…]"”

“To this end⟳, Jabby attempts to xpost across USENET, telling rape victims that Evolution says that 'rape is good', telling depressed teenagers that suicide is good, telling war refugees that the fact that they got hammered shows that they are Not Fit, etc. Jabby also wants to create⟳ the Manpanzee, a human-chimp xbreed.”

“1. The FAQ points out that USENET is not what it used to be before the Never Ending September. Third party cancelling used to be sternly looked down upon. Spam, floods, gibberish, have⟳ changed the scene.”

“We actually had seats in the last⟳ two rows at the third level, so we didn't annoy anybody, or else we would have⟳ been told. We had enough room, space, we enjoyed it and we were ok. Not any idiot who spits hatred all over the USENET, like⟳ some of you guys, sings well, unannoyingly.”

“You seem to be missing the point⟳ that you have⟳ failed to convince⟳ anyone that what you propose⟳ IS an improvement. As you already mentioned, change⟳ != progress⟳/improvement. USENET has been around awhile now and the accepted rules are pretty much the result⟳ of eliminating things thta didn't work⟳ well.”

“This was what happened when the AOLers, WebTVers, and Google Groupers showed up during the Endless September. We don't need⟳ to go through that again! Otherwise, instead of ending up with ex-webbies who have⟳ adapted to USENET, USENET might be converted into a vast web-board/social-networking site/blog by webbies […]”

“So, anyway, I think⟳ the USENET should not be a place⟳ for lay⟳ or young or regular people. It should be the place⟳ for the type⟳ of people who created it and populated it --- before eternal September, say⟳, lol.”

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