Sentences with phrase «usenet messages»

Google breaks it down this way: 4.28 billion Web pages, 880 million images, 845 million Usenet messages, and a growing collection of book - related information pages.

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He posted the message to around six thousand of the electronic forums known as «Usenet newsgroups», on which people round the world exchange information and opinions with others who have similar interests.

Canter and Siegel counter that the violent reaction to their message comes from a small elite that has had the Usenet to itself for years, and resents other people using it to make money.

Others on the Usenet argue that if only a few people respond to a message that is accurately targeted, that's just too bad.

After Canter sent his message, anyone who logged onto a Usenet newsgroup hoping to find the latest gossip about their chosen topic — which range from Amazon women to the Vietnam war — would have been greeted by a message headed: «Green Card Lottery 1994 May be the Last One!!

A key guideline limits postings on a Usenet newsgroup to the topic it has been set up to cover; messages may be posted to several topics, but not across the board.

Many Usenet groups alow commercial messages, but only if they relate to the group's topic.

A physics lecturer from London has issued a writ for libel for a series of messages sent over the Usenet computer network, which links universities worldwide.

Whether we're talking about free speech on Usenet, the policy questions of legitimate marketing and com - mercial activity conducted over email, or the desirable but spam - ish mes - sages that trip the filters and disappear, there is always friction not around the most egregious case (no one argues for Leo Kuvayev's «\ / 1@gR / - \» messages) but at the blurry places where spam threatens to blend into acceptable use, and fighting one might have a deleterious effect on the other.

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.

Zebra accuses people of spamming, and says «Usenet convention defines spamming as excessive multiple posting, that is, the repeated posting of a message (or substantially similar messages).»

On usenet, a very noisy collection of message boards, the usual response to someone spreading misinformation was to provide accurate information.