A Usenet newsgroup is a repository usually within the Usenet system, for messages posted from users in different locations using the Internet. They are... 16 KB (2,151 words) - 17:47, 19 February 2024 |
 | collectively termed news) to one or more topic categories, known as newsgroups. Usenet resembles a bulletin board system (BBS) in many respects and is the... 90 KB (8,878 words) - 14:13, 19 April 2024 |
inception, Usenet newsgroups have attracted a wide variety of people posting all manner of fact, fiction, theories, opinions, and beliefs. Some Usenet posters... 22 KB (2,654 words) - 03:36, 10 March 2024 |
 | Spamming (section Newsgroup and forum) applied to similar abuses in other media: instant messaging spam, Usenet newsgroup spam, Web search engine spam, spam in blogs, wiki spam, online classified... 64 KB (6,982 words) - 09:15, 23 April 2024 |
Alt.sex.stories (category Newsgroups) stories is a Usenet newsgroup for erotic stories created on May 7, 1992, by Tim Pierce as an alternative to pre-existing alt erotica newsgroups.[better source needed]... 5 KB (629 words) - 02:04, 14 April 2024 |
 | Google Groups (category Usenet clients) Until February 2024, the Groups service also provided a gateway to Usenet newsgroups, both reading and posting to them, via a shared user interface. In... 17 KB (1,641 words) - 21:47, 17 April 2024 |
Newsgroup spam is a type of spam where the targets are Usenet newsgroups. Spamming of Usenet newsgroups pre-dates e-mail spam. The first widely recognized... 7 KB (920 words) - 00:22, 16 September 2023 |
 | Alt.* hierarchy (redirect from Alt newsgroup) The alt.* hierarchy is a major class of newsgroups in Usenet, containing all newsgroups whose name begins with "alt.", organized hierarchically. The alt... 8 KB (1,025 words) - 18:28, 24 February 2024 |
Alt.religion.scientology (category Usenet alt.* hierarchy) The Usenet newsgroup alt.religion.scientology (often abbreviated a.r.s or ARS) started in 1991 to discuss the controversial beliefs of Scientology, as... 10 KB (1,064 words) - 21:57, 10 February 2024 |
Backbone cabal (redirect from Usenet cabal) news server administrators of the worldwide distributed newsgroup-based discussion system Usenet. It existed from about 1983 at least into the 2000s.[citation... 4 KB (377 words) - 21:44, 1 December 2023 |