Sentences with word «usenet»

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

Back in the 1970s academics on Usenet groups would seamlessly glide from discussions about physics and code to venomous, personal insults and back again.

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.

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

From Usenet groups and early forums to user - and company - created blogs designed to attract a specific following, the internet has continuously evolved to improve how people connect with one another over shared interests.

(It's a truism from Usenet days that one way to get good information on the Net is to post what you think and await correction.

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.

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.

Vocal Usenet users dismiss this as a red herring.

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

Once upon a time, before the days of Facebook, was a series of computer network systems called USENET.

Remembers when they let the AOL crowd onto USENET.

The band has remained an early adopter of communications technologies, from Usenet through to iPhone apps.

Back in those distant, innocent days, people were just beginning to pitch products and brands via Usenet, sparking accusations of spamming and a strong backlash in some communities.

[68] ISPs Cox and Atlantic Communications resisted the 2008 trend but both did eventually drop their respective Usenet feeds in 2010.

Why was drive - by anonymity supported by Usenet?

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.

However, Canter & Siegel was unrepentant, and insisted that it should be able to publish unsolicited ads over Usenet groups.

Yay thankyou, I was just wondering if I could usenet cashews instead of tofu, can't wait to make it now

But as this guide shows, the rules for effective Usenet outreach foreshadow those of modern social media marketing.

Some ISPs did not include pressure from Attorney General of New York Andrew Cuomo's aggressive campaign against child pornography as one of their reasons for dropping Usenet feeds as part of their services.

The next layers of code built on top of that base, including Usenet, were created mostly in the countercultural climate of the 1970s and 1980s, and particularly in the San Francisco Bay Area, which includes Silicon Valley.

Before the Web, there were other types of online connections, of which Usenet was probably the most influential.

The CIX gateway, unfortunately, does not allow the specific text searches and thread - following commands that you would find if you reached Usenet through a Unix - based system, but it is much easier to use.

Many academic scientists who want to talk shop use the major computing networks, such as JANET, which links British universities, and the worldwide Usenet.

The first [Usenet] appearance of Hottie McHotterson (on rec.games.video.sony),» Zimmer writes, beat out «Fatty McFatterson, Stiffy McStifferson, Drinky McDrinkerson, Jewy McJewerson, etc.» Zimmer also notes a cornucopia of deprecative McNicknames for George W. Bush, including «Chimpy McBunnypants,» «Drinky McCokeSpoon,» and «Smirky McWarHardon.»

It's pretty hard to control usenet, even for Her Majesty.

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.

In fact, the amount of Usenet traffic has steadily increased in the past 15 years.

As per this mechanism, each device has a unique key that can be used to track down any user that is using e-books obtained illegally from torrent or usenet sites.

Two game devs made up a classic JRPG to help promote their new title, a twine game about fandom, nostalgia and Usenet boards.

Other times readers would scour Usenet and send them into magazines, as Amrich and his friend Carl had done for Mortal Kombat.

Looking forward to reviving the historically interesting and productive usenet - style conversations on environmental matters, we are, sincerely, your globalchange moderators:

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.