Text 32788, 63 rader
Skriven 2007-05-30 13:44:19 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
  Kommentar till text 32744 av JEAN PARROT (1:123/140)
Ärende: nntp
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 JP>         NNTP would not have helped me get connected, August. You are
 JP>     in a trio, us in a quatuor outnumber you all. I see no point at
 JP>     the moment to try anything else to replace ZOC-BW-TSE.

 RF> Whether or not you use telnet to access Fido, NNTP is the protocol
 RF> for news groups and usenet, which encompasses today the vast
 RF> majority  of online/offline topic discussions.

RF can certainly say that again... i'm aware of more than one newsgroup with
memberships numbering in the thousands and at least two with over 100000(!)
members... now, these that i'm aware of are not usenet groups but are hosted
privately... usenet, which many folk think of, is only certain hierarchies...
the alt.* hierarchy being the biggest and spammiest due to it mainly being
unmoderated... alt is the radioactive wastelands that everyone fears...

Newsgroups are organized and grouped by title using hierarchical compound names
such as rec.sport.basketball.college. Here, rec specifies recreational topics,
sport specifies a subgroup of recreation, and so on. The Big Eight mainstream
hierarchies are:

 * comp: Anything related to computers (e.g., programming languages, operating
systems, hardware)

 * humanities: Art, music, literature, philosophy, classical studies, etc.

 * misc: An assortment of topics that don't fit in any of the other Big Eight
hierarchies

 * news: Pertaining to the administration and discussion of Usenet software,
protocols, policies, etc.

 * rec: Recreation and hobbies of all kinds

 * sci: Academic discussions of science and, to a lesser extent, technology

 * soc: History, culture, religion, politics, lifestyle, and other topics of
social interest

 * talk: Debate and extended discussion, often heated

Alternative hierarchies have smaller distributions than their mainstream
cousins; each has its own rules and focus. These hierarchies include:

 * alt: This is by far the largest and most diverse hierarchy; all manner of
topics can be found here. As there is no formal newsgroup creation procedure,
anyone may create an alt group at any time. For this reason, many news servers
either do not carry alt, or subscribe to only a small portion of its groups.

 * biz: Almost as well established as the mainstream groups, biz caters to a
variety of business interests.

 * k12: This hierarchy contains groups designed for K-12 educators.

Numerous national, regional, local, and organizational hierarchies also exist,
some of which are available globally (e.g., the chi groups for Chicago, the
relcom Russian language groups, and the British uk hierarchy).

For more information, see the Master List of Newsgroup Hierarchies.
http://www.magma.ca/~leisen/mlnh/

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