Sentences with phrase «usenet discussion»

They contracted with a computer developer to create a program to generate advertising for the firm's Green Card Lottery service and to spread it to 6,000 Usenet discussion groups.

After all, blog - like things are hardly new — USENET discussion groups started in the mid-1980s, and some have actually been quite productive.

After a barrage of protests, electronic «mail bombs» that clogged its e-mail box, telephone threats, and the cancellation of two Internet accounts, Canter & Siegel agreed late last month to refrain from further mass postings on Usenet discussion groups «until the issue is resolved», according to Martha Siegel, a partner in the firm.

These include (but are not limited to) books published by vanity presses, self - published «zines», blogs, web forums, usenet discussions, personal social media, fan sites, vanity websites that permit the creation of self - promotional articles, and other similar venues.

Not exact matches

According to Whitney Phillips, a New York University lecturer, Usenet users first used «the word «troll» to describe someone who deliberately disrupted online discussions in order to stir up controversy.»

Usenet as a realm for public discussion died fast with the rise of websites, Yahoo / Google Groups and other alternative online social spaces, and it survives now primarily as a distribution channel for big (and often pirated) binary files.

Early cybernauts accessed these Usenet «newsgroups» through a «newsreader,» a standalone program that displayed the discussion threads to which you'd subscribed.

You see kids, back when I joined the online world in the ancient days of 1995 (you wouldn't BELIEVE how much of a pain it is to cram a cuneiform tablet into a modem), the internet was a much different realm — email existed, FTP existed, a few text - heavy websites existed, but a significant part of our social interaction took place in a huge and diverse set of discussion groups collectively called the Usenet.

Technically, Usenet and the Internet are distinct: Usenet is a collection of thousands of online discussion groups, while the Internet is the «network of networks» that links computers around the world.

Messages posted to Usenet, forums, Twitter, Facebook and message boards that are off - topic (unrelated to the topic of discussion), cross-posted to unrelated newsgroups, posted in excessive volume, or posted against forum / message board rules.

I have a «little» experience on Usenet and Discussion boards along the way.

UseNet Groups: UseNet groups are internet discussion groups set up to discuss a specific topic (solar heating for example).

At least Usenet had permanent archived repositories so you could re-visit past threaded discussions.

Usenet may not have been the perfect online discussion venue, but for a period of time... it worked pretty well.

Begun in 1979, Usenet was a collection of discussion groups — or, newsgroups, as they were known — that, as Wikipedia says, «can be superficially regarded as a hybrid between e-mail and web forums» but possessing considerable technological sophistication.

In the early (usenet) days, this same kind of robust discussion, then referred to as «flamefests», was broadly considered unworthy of suit.