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Encyclopedia: News server

A news server is a set of computer software used to handle Usenet articles. A reader server provides an interface to read and post articles, generally with the assistance of a news client. A transit server exchanges articles with other servers. Most servers can provide both functions.

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C-News

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Breidbart Index

cancellable spam when the Breidbart Index exceeds 20, at which point they can be auto-cancelled from news servers. Other hierarchies have their own rules; many (smaller, local ones) are much more restrictive...

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Backbone cabal

the backbone in 1983 to stabilize the Usenet propagation. [1], [2] While many news servers operated during night time to save the cost of long distance communication, servers of the backbone were...

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CARNet

maintains all the resources a typical ISP does, like a news server (NNTP), IRC servers, FTP servers... and NTP servers are all maintained by CARNet. CARNet maintains and connects the internets for four...

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Demon Internet

Demon Internet is a British Internet Service Provider. It was one of the earliest ISPs, starting on 1 June 1992 from an idea on CIX. The branch in the Netherlands started in 1996. Its first service was dialup IP, combined with access to mail and news servers. This was priced at £10 a month (Â...

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List of newsgroups

As of October of 2002, there are around 100,000 Usenet newsgroups, of which approximately a fifth are active. This number varies, depending on the news server carrying the newsgroups. It would be impossible for Wikipedia to list each and every newsgroup. However, several newsgroups are notable and...

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Newsgroup spam

1990s there was substantial controversy among Usenet system administrators (news admins) over the use of cancel messages to control spam. A cancel message is a directive to news servers to delete a... volunteers, who purge newsgroups of spam by sending cancels and filtering it out on the way into servers...

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Scientology vs. the Internet

to wipe out messages from news servers carrying the newsgroup. Lawyers representing Scientology made public appeals to Internet service providers to remove the newsgroup completely from their news servers (though these requests were repeatedly rejected). Furthermore, anonymous participants in the...

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Newsgroup

subject, frowning on off-topic postings. The news admin (the administrator of a news server) decides how long articles are kept before being expired (deleted from the server). Usually they will be... topics news.* - Discussion of Usenet itself sci.* - Discussion of scientific subjects humanities...

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POV-Ray

/or bug reporting should join the POV-Ray newsgroups on the povray.org news server. For those...

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