Monday, September 20, 2010

What Is Usenet News?

Usenet News
Usenet service enables a group of Internet users to exchange their views/ideas/ information on some
of interest with all members belonging to the group. Several such groups exist on the Internet and
newsgroups. For example, a newsgroup named comp.security.misc consists of users haying; interest in
security issues.

A newsgroup is like a large notice board accessibly to all members belonging t6 the group. A member^ to exchange his/lier N-views/ideas/information with other members, creates a specially formatted submits it to the Usenet software running on his/her own computer. The software posts the message on notice board. The posted message can be read (seen) from any member's computer belonging to newsgroup, just as a notice posted on a notice bonM.ma access to the notice there are two types of newsgroups r moderated and non-moderated. In a moderated newsgroup, only selected members have right tb post (write) a message directly, on a virtual notice board, whereas in a no moderated group, any member can directly post a message on it. In a moderated newsgroup, a message created by an ordinary member is first sent to one of the members having right to directly post a message on the’ notice board, message is. then checked by the authorized member to decide whether the message is appropriate for posting./she does any editing that might be required to improve the message's quality, and then posts it on the notice I. The message now becomes readable Jo (can be seen by) other members,
main  ideas of a moderated  newsgroup is to ensure quality of the posted messages. As no one moderates quality of messages in a no moderate newsgroup, anyone can post anything. However, members of such newsgroups fild be careful in posting a message, because other members may react angrily by sending a flaming message use to an ill-mannered message. To address this issue, the concept of netiquette (network etiquette) has that deals with rules of framing messages that will not hurt others,

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