Chapter 13. Internet News
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Usenet newsgroups are a fascinating and informative source of information, entertainment, news, and general chat. Usenet is one of the oldest components of the Internet and was popular long before the World Wide Web came on the scene. Usenet is still the most popular aspect of the Internet in terms of user interaction, offering a dynamic and often controversial forum for discussion on any subject.
Usenet newsgroups now number well over 100,000 groups dedicated to many different subjects. A full download of an average day's newsgroup postings takes several hundred megabytes of disk ...
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