Terms
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Stefan Ram@21:1/5 to
All on Thu Feb 29 08:21:01 2024
There are several definitions for such fundamental terms as "Usenet"
and "Netnews", and you are free to choose. For this post, I chose to
quote from a 1995 draft, the author of which seems to be Ronda Hauben.
Ronda, in turn, quoted Horton 1981:
|USENET is a public access network.
Then, she quotes "a description of Usenet posted in March 1982":
|USENET is an international network of UNIX sites with hookups
|into the ARPA network, too. It is basically a fancy
|electronic Bulletin Board System.
. And we find, still in Ronda's text:
|Characterizing Usenet as a logical network, as opposed to a
|physical network, Horton explains that Usenet is a network of
|sites running Netnews software:
Note that the sentence above also says something about "Netnews".
I take it from this that it might be possible that other
networks, different from Usenet, might use Netnews software, too.
The text then continues:
| "For those of you who don't know, USENET is a logical network
| of sites running netnews. Netnews is a network oriented
| bulletin board, making it very easy to broadcast a query to
| a large base of people. USENET currently has about 50 sites
| and is growing rapidly."(30)
|
| Horton emphasizes that Usenet is a users' network. He
|explains: "USENET exists for and by the users, and should respond
|to the needs of those users."(31)
|
| He also notes that "USENET is a cashless network." This
|meant that "No person or organization may charge another
|organization for news, except that by prearrangement." He
|explains that a site could charge only for the extra expenses
|incurred in sending Usenet to another site. And almost every site
|that received news had to be willing to forward it to at least
|two additional sites.
.
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