Usenet; Standards And Specifications - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 SP2 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION Installation Manual

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50.8 Usenet

Created in 1979 before the rise of the Internet, Usenet is one of the oldest computer
networks and still in active use. The format and transmission of Usenet articles is very
similar to e-mail, but is developed for a many-to-many communication.
Usenet is organized into seven topical categories: comp.* for computer-related discus-
sions, misc.* for miscellaneous topics, news.* for newsgroup-related matters,
rec.* for recreation and entertainment, sci.* for science-related discussions, soc.*
for social discussions, and talk.* for various controversial topics. The top levels are
split in subgroups. For instance, comp.os.linux.hardware is a newsgroup for
Linux-specific hardware issues.
Before you can post an article, have your client connect to a news server and subscribe
to a specific newsgroup. News clients include Knode or Evolution. Each news server
communicates to other news servers and exchanges articles with them. Not all news-
groups may be available on your news server.
Interesting newsgroups for Linux users are comp.os.linux.apps,
comp.os.linux.questions, and comp.os.linux.hardware. If you cannot
find a specific newsgroup, go to
.html. Follow the general Usenet rules available online at
.org/faqs/usenet/posting-rules/part1/.

50.9 Standards and Specifications

There are various sources that provide information about standards or specifications.
http://www.linuxbase.org
The Free Standards Group is an independent nonprofit organization that promotes
the distribution of free software and open source software. The organization endeav-
ors to achieve this by defining distribution-independent standards. The maintenance
http://www.linux.org/docs/usenetlinux
http://www.faqs
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