Sentences with phrase «usenet newsgroups»

I got the modem and I found Usenet newsgroups, which they're still around, I guess.

Lawyers who need to track when a company, Web site, product or name is discussed in Usenet newsgroups have a new tool they can use.

There is a tradition in many Usenet newsgroups that once such a comparison is made the thread in which the comment was posted is finished and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever debate was in progress.

Spamming of Usenet newsgroups actually pre-dates e-mail spam.

«Newsgroup spam is a type of spam where the targets are Usenet newsgroups.

Starting in 1993, the year I «went public» on the Usenet newsgroups, I began seeing between 220 and 250 theatrical releases per year.

Newsgroup spam is a type of spam where the targets are Usenet newsgroups.

Spamming of Usenet newsgroups actually pre-dates e-mail spam.

Internet services usually provide access to Usenet newsgroups.

The scientologists accuse Erlich of posting material to which it claims the copyright on one of the Internet's bulletin boards, or «Usenet newsgroups».

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.

And, it detailed the Senator's previous means of online outreach to his constituents, including a network of dial up bulletin boards, ftp and gopher servers, and postings in Usenet newsgroups.

During the long hours of pumping, I began exploring «Usenet Newsgroups» (the early Internet places to find other people) about breastfeeding.

I've been helping site build awareness and earn links since before Google existed, but thanks to Google's purchase of DejaNews, you can still see evidence of my work in usenet newsgroups as far back as 1995.

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.

The first Usenet newsgroup that wasn't about science or computers was about SF.

Long ago, however, Robert A Freed, who was not affiliated with PKWARE but claimed to have permission, posted (on the Usenet newsgroup comp.sys.ibm.pc) part of the DISCLAIM.DOC file that PKWARE had distributed on January 11, 1989:

Not exact matches

For example, there's Usenet, a Web - based network of topic - specific newsgroups or bulletin boards.

misc.kids.breastfeeding (MKB) newsgroup: A usenet group devoted to topics concerning breastfeeding.

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

People who regularly participate in the newsgroups worry that if enough companies begin spamming, the Usenet's essential quality as an unregulated source of ideas and opinions will be destroyed.

Blanket posting to all newsgroups breaches the informal «netiquette» that has evolved to govern behaviour on the Usenet, which says that postings should be relevant to the topic of the newsgroup, and that you should give back as much to the Usenet as you take out.

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 acknowledged that — still do, «ask a reference librarian» is always good advice — but I elaborated on my favorite tool, Usenet: find the relevant newsgroups, and ask a clear, well phrased, and interesting question, catch the eye of someone who knew something not findable online, and tickle her or his fancy sufficiently that the answer would trickle down from the brain to the fingers through the keyboard and become findable thereafter, by searching in News.

Apparently, RC's William Connolley has the privilege of being one of the first third parties to comment, on Oct 15, 2004 on the Usenet sci.environment newsgroup.

Back in the prehistoric days of usenet, any newsgroup worth its salt had an FAQ in which newbies were advised to silently lurk in order to get the lay of the land, so to speak, prior to engaging their keyboards.

He reminds me of what happened, over 15 years ago, on a newsgroup called RCTN on Usenet, a predecessor to the Internet.

You access Usenet via Google Groups, each of the classic newsgroups being considered a Google Group, many of which you can still join.

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.

What used to be a brief annual nuisance turned into an onslaught of AOL n00bs, who overwhelmed Usenet's cultural institutions and turned the newsgroup into a noisome wasteland.