Sentences with phrase «by usenet»

Why was drive - by anonymity supported by Usenet?

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Usenet groups broke down by topic, with a characteristic naming convention that set off subtopics by dots, and they could spin off in interesting directions, as in the legendary alt.

Usenet was an online directory of topics where anyone could post comments, drive - by style.

By doing so, he breached the unwritten rules of the Usenet and provoked an almighty row.

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!!

HTML for Dummies by Ed Tittle and Steve James (IDG, # 28.99, ISBN 156 884 330 5) sticks a sketchy explanation of everything from Usenet to modem speeds and HTTP servers into an introductory section before explaining HTML, the language of the Web.

If the publishers would agree a deal with Tom Kabinet, they would get a share for every sold e-book, even when that was an illegal one, they did get some money to compensate that which they would never got if people only download them from usenet, but they didn't even react on that offer made by Tom Kabinet.

All of this is rather silly, though, because usenet A) has just about any title anyone could ever want and B) is completely unstoppable by Her Majesty.

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.

This was posted by Vic (president of WD) on Usenet:

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.

There is a thread on a new google group started very recently about coupling economic and climate models, you may be interested in it: http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange This group is intended as an alternative to the usenet forums that have been overrun by trolls.

As you know, USENET adapted «troll» to apply to the drop - by dive - bombers who visited just to cause fights, by «translating» the assumed visual and mental ugliness of the fantasy troll so that the decribed certain USENET types.

Wired did a piece on how screwed up the searching of the Usenet archive was, and Google responded within a day by fixing what it claimed was a minor bug.

A Usenet comp.os.os2.apps posting by Chris Waters on October 20, 1992, suggests there was a lot of cooperation between PKWARE and Info - Zip with respect to the ZIP 2.0 standard.

One of the brilliant features of Usenet was that you could nest groups within groups, by adding modifiers in subsequent places.