Usenet - Revision history

Rivest–Shamir–Adleman: added internal FAQ document

2026-07-18T11:12:56Z

added internal FAQ document

Umbire the Phantom: /* External links */ pothole

2025-03-03T01:18:59Z

‎External links: pothole

Ray Chason: Links to Internet Archive records of Usenet groups

2025-03-03T00:27:29Z

Links to Internet Archive records of Usenet groups

Umbire the Phantom: oops, forgot the entire reason I was here

2025-03-02T16:03:04Z

oops, forgot the entire reason I was here

Umbire the Phantom: lede

2025-03-02T16:00:40Z

lede

Umbire the Phantom: copyedit

2025-03-02T16:00:06Z

copyedit

Furey: revert back to meatball:UseNet. Meatball interwiki links work again.

2024-06-18T02:32:17Z

revert back to meatball:UseNet. Meatball interwiki links work again.

Furey: Delinkify comp.sources.games, rec.games.hack. Linkify NNTP. Fix redlinks. http -> https. update external link to meatball wiki.

2024-06-18T01:22:00Z

Delinkify comp.sources.games, rec.games.hack. Linkify NNTP. Fix redlinks. http -> https. update external link to meatball wiki.

Furey: Rewrite the first sentence. Usenet was developed independently of the Internet. NNTP was not the first transport protocol, either, but I will let that go for now.

2024-06-18T00:54:32Z

Rewrite the first sentence. Usenet was developed independently of the Internet. NNTP was not the first transport protocol, either, but I will let that go for now.

Ion frigate: mention what NNTP is; in PRIME, there are NNTP daemons that breathe flames at you

2024-06-07T05:36:38Z

mention what NNTP is; in PRIME, there are NNTP daemons that breathe flames at you

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 *** rec.games.roguelike.
 **** [[rec.games.roguelike.nethack]] [https://archive.org/download/usenet-rec/rec.games.roguelike.nethack.mbox.zip (archive)]
 * net. (obsolete; see [[wikipedia:Great Renaming|Great Renaming]]. All known versions of [[Hack]] were posted here)
 ** net.sources.

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 ==External links==
-* [[meatball:UseNet]]
+* [[meatball:UseNet|UseNet on MeatBallWiki]]
 {{noversion}}
 [[Category:Community]]

@@ Line 5: / Line 5: @@
 [https://groups.google.com '''Google Groups'''] formerly provided support for posting on Usenet until February 22, 2024, and posts made before the end of support can still be viewed through the site. While this allows access to many old NetHack releases, Google Groups is considered to be of little use for preserving them nowadays, due in part to factors such as their rendering of whitespaces causing patches to be displayed and/or rendered improperly.
 ==Usenet hierarchy==
@@ Line 11: / Line 13: @@
 * comp.
 ** comp.sources.
-*** comp.sources.games
+*** comp.sources.games [https://archive.org/download/usenet-comp/comp.sources.games.mbox.zip (archive)]
 * rec.
 ** rec.games.
-*** rec.games.hack (obsolete)
+*** rec.games.hack (obsolete) [https://archive.org/download/usenet-rec/rec.games.hack.mbox.zip (archive)]
 *** rec.games.roguelike.
-**** [[rec.games.roguelike.nethack]]
+**** [[rec.games.roguelike.nethack]] [https://archive.org/download/usenet-rec/rec.games.roguelike.nethack.mbox.zip (archive)]
 * net. (obsolete; see [[wikipedia:Great Renaming|Great Renaming]]. All known versions of [[Hack]] were posted here)
 ** net.sources.
-*** net.sources.games
+*** net.sources.games [https://archive.org/download/usenet-net/net.sources.games.mbox.zip (archive)]
 ==External links==

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 Access to Usenet is normally tolled: If you pay a fee, you may purchase real NNTP access to a Usenet server, and connect your own client software (and trade large files at binary groups), though there are also free methods to view UseNet and even post on a limited basis. Usenet's primary relevance to ''NetHack'' is the release of previous versions through the network, with the last such version released being [[NetHack 3.1.3]] in July 1993.
-[https://groups.google.com Google Groups] formerly provided support for Usenet until February 22, 2024, and posts made before the end of support can still be viewed through the site. While this allows access to many old NetHack releases, Google Groups is considered to be of little use for preserving them nowadays, due in part to factors such as their rendering of whitespaces causing patches to be displayed and/or rendered improperly.
+[https://groups.google.com '''Google Groups'''] formerly provided support for posting on Usenet until February 22, 2024, and posts made before the end of support can still be viewed through the site. While this allows access to many old NetHack releases, Google Groups is considered to be of little use for preserving them nowadays, due in part to factors such as their rendering of whitespaces causing patches to be displayed and/or rendered improperly.
 ==Usenet hierarchy==

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 {{wikipedia|Usenet}}
-'''Usenet''' is one of the oldest distributed computer communications networks. It consists of discussion groups called "newsgroups", in which servers propagate messages in a peer-to-peer fashion, and clients connect to servers to read and post to newsgroups. Communication (both client and server) takes place via [[Wikipedia:NNTP|Network News Transfer Protocol]], or NNTP, an application-layer protocol analogous to but different (and older) than the ubiquitous [[Wikipedia:HTTP|HyperText Transfer Protocol]], aka HTTP.
+'''Usenet''' is one of the oldest distributed computer communications networks. It consists of discussion groups called "newsgroups", in which servers propagate messages in a peer-to-peer fashion, and clients connect to servers to read and post to newsgroups. Communication (both client and server) takes place via [[Wikipedia:NNTP|Network News Transfer Protocol]], or NNTP: this application-layer protocol is analogous to, but different (and older) than, the ubiquitous [[Wikipedia:HTTP|HyperText Transfer Protocol]], aka HTTP.
 Access to Usenet is normally tolled: If you pay a fee, you may purchase real NNTP access to a Usenet server, and connect your own client software (and trade large files at binary groups), though there are also free methods to view UseNet and even post on a limited basis. Usenet's primary relevance to ''NetHack'' is the release of previous versions through the network, with the last such version released being [[NetHack 3.1.3]] in July 1993.

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 == External links ==
-* http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/UseNet
+* [[meatball:UseNet]]
 [[Category:Community]]

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 {{wikipedia|Usenet}}
-'''Usenet''' is one of the oldest parts of the Internet. It consists of discussion groups called "newsgroups", in which servers propagate messages in a peer-to-peer fashion, and clients connect to servers to read and post to newsgroups. Communication (both client and server) takes place via ''Network News Transfer Protocol'', or NNTP, an application-layer protocol analogous to but different (and older) than the ubiquitous [[Wikipedia:HTTP|HyperText Transfer Protocol]], aka HTTP.
+'''Usenet''' is one of the oldest distributed computer communications networks. It consists of discussion groups called "newsgroups", in which servers propagate messages in a peer-to-peer fashion, and clients connect to servers to read and post to newsgroups. Communication (both client and server) takes place via ''Network News Transfer Protocol'', or NNTP, an application-layer protocol analogous to but different (and older) than the ubiquitous [[Wikipedia:HTTP|HyperText Transfer Protocol]], aka HTTP.
 Access to Usenet is normally tolled. If you pay a fee, you may purchase real NNTP access to a Usenet server, and connect your own client software (and trade large files at binary groups). Many Usenet participants are stuck using free methods like http://groups.google.com to read and post.