USENET is an electronic discussion network that is disseminated worldwide. USENET is comprised of a set of newsgroups with names that are classified by subject. Messages can be sent to whatever newsgroup a user with a computer and the appropriate...

Usenet (a contraction of user network) is a global, decentralized, distributed Internet discussion system that evolved from a general purpose UUCP architecture of the same name. It was conceived by Duke University graduate students Tom Truscott and Jim...

It's been spurned, scorned and spammed, yet somehow Usenet lumbers on. And if you're not cheering, you've probably never heard of Usenet. Usenet is an online bulletin board. Actually, it is 100,000 or so bulletin boards, each dedicated to a particular subject. For...

The Usenet computer network developed with no centralized administration, no membership restrictions and no clearly defined objectives. AT&T's release of UNIX version 7, which included the Unix to Unix copy (UUCP) program made the birth of Usenet possible. In 1979 Duke University graduate students...

The recording industry is going after an old-fashioned online bulletin board system called Usenet, filing a lawsuit against one provider on grounds it allows users to illegally distribute copyright-protected music.Music companies, represented by the trade group Recording Industry Association of America, said Internet users have...