No geek here

Just curious. I know virtually nothing about usenet. Do we have any sort
of administrator here. Our local bulletin board has a regular web address
and the web master routinely goes in and removes all spam. I know this is
different but wasnt sure if anyone had any 'big brother' powers.
Bill Brister - Austin, Texas

Just curious. I know virtually nothing about usenet. Do we have any sort
of administrator here. Our local bulletin board has a regular web address

No admin here...wide open to the world... research the post header,
copy the full post (headers too) and send to te abuse department
listed in the post.

and the web master routinely goes in and removes all spam. I know this is
different but wasnt sure if anyone had any 'big brother' powers.

None at all.

As Calumbo sez "just one more thing sir". Who or what pays
for/houses/supports/posts/etc usenet? Somewhere there is a pretty good
little chuck of hard drive to house 7+ years of threads and the search
engine. Does it ever go down? And this is just one of thousands.
Bill

"Newbie Bill" wrote in message
...
Just curious. I know virtually nothing about usenet. Do we have any sort
of administrator here. Our local bulletin board has a regular web address
and the web master routinely goes in and removes all spam. I know this is
different but wasnt sure if anyone had any 'big brother' powers.
Bill Brister - Austin, Texas

"Newbie Bill" wrote in message
m...
As Calumbo sez "just one more thing sir". Who or what pays
for/houses/supports/posts/etc usenet? Somewhere there is a pretty good
little chuck of hard drive to house 7+ years of threads and the search
engine. Does it ever go down? And this is just one of thousands.
Bill


You and I pay for it. Yes there is. Yes is does. Yes it is.

I notice every message in this thread (as best as I can interpret) comes
from a different news server. Does that mean that each server has all this
info, my server just houses my info and each post is essentially a link to
their respective news server, is there a 'mothership' that my server is
accessing and downloading as 'requested', etc. I know(I think) that a
website is essentially on A computer (or server) and everyone is accessing
it. If that is the case with usenet does my server pay a 'subscription' or
download fee. After about 6 years I am still fascinated by the whole thing -
the way the net connects us all almost as if we were neighbors. In fact I
have neighbors just 3 houses away that I still dont know (after 7 months)
but I 'know' people in PA because of the net and our common interest. Darn
right amazin.
Bill
" George" wrote in message
...

"Newbie Bill" wrote in message
m...
As Calumbo sez "just one more thing sir". Who or what pays
for/houses/supports/posts/etc usenet? Somewhere there is a pretty good
little chuck of hard drive to house 7+ years of threads and the search
engine. Does it ever go down? And this is just one of thousands.
Bill


You and I pay for it. Yes there is. Yes is does. Yes it is.

Bill wrote Darn
right amazin.

You can say that again!
I'm not sure it all works, luckily I have a computer geek teenager in residence
to take
care of me.


kathy :-)
algae primer
http://hometown.aol.com/ka30p/myhomepage/garden.html

"Newbie Bill" wrote in message
...
I notice every message in this thread (as best as I can interpret) comes
from a different news server. Does that mean that each server has all this
info, my server just houses my info and each post is essentially a link to
their respective news server, is there a 'mothership' that my server is
accessing and downloading as 'requested', etc. I know(I think) that a
website is essentially on A computer (or server) and everyone is accessing
it. If that is the case with usenet does my server pay a 'subscription' or
download fee. After about 6 years I am still fascinated by the whole thing -
the way the net connects us all almost as if we were neighbors. In fact I
have neighbors just 3 houses away that I still dont know (after 7 months)
but I 'know' people in PA because of the net and our common interest. Darn
right amazin.
Bill

I suggest you spend less time thinking about things you cannot control, then go
down the street and meet your neighbors.

Apparently you arent married. I sure as h*** cant control my wife but I
want to know everything I can about how she works.
Bill

" George" wrote in message
...

"Newbie Bill" wrote in message
...
I notice every message in this thread (as best as I can interpret) comes
from a different news server. Does that mean that each server has all
this
info, my server just houses my info and each post is essentially a link
to
their respective news server, is there a 'mothership' that my server is
accessing and downloading as 'requested', etc. I know(I think) that a
website is essentially on A computer (or server) and everyone is
accessing
it. If that is the case with usenet does my server pay a 'subscription'
or
download fee. After about 6 years I am still fascinated by the whole
thing -
the way the net connects us all almost as if we were neighbors. In fact
I
have neighbors just 3 houses away that I still dont know (after 7
months)
but I 'know' people in PA because of the net and our common interest.
Darn
right amazin.
Bill

I suggest you spend less time thinking about things you cannot control,
then go
down the street and meet your neighbors.

On 6/18/04 9:37 AM, "Newbie Bill" wrote:

I notice every message in this thread (as best as I can interpret) comes
from a different news server. Does that mean that each server has all this
info, my server just houses my info and each post is essentially a link to
their respective news server, is there a 'mothership' that my server is
accessing and downloading as 'requested', etc. I know(I think) that a
website is essentially on A computer (or server) and everyone is accessing
it. If that is the case with usenet does my server pay a 'subscription' or
download fee. After about 6 years I am still fascinated by the whole thing -
the way the net connects us all almost as if we were neighbors. In fact I
have neighbors just 3 houses away that I still dont know (after 7 months)
but I 'know' people in PA because of the net and our common interest. Darn
right amazin.
Bill
" George" wrote in message
...

"Newbie Bill" wrote in message
m...
As Calumbo sez "just one more thing sir". Who or what pays
for/houses/supports/posts/etc usenet? Somewhere there is a pretty good
little chuck of hard drive to house 7+ years of threads and the search
engine. Does it ever go down? And this is just one of thousands.
Bill


You and I pay for it. Yes there is. Yes is does. Yes it is.




You might be interested in this:
http://www.usenet.com/

Joe




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http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World!
-----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =-----

Do I really have to don the computer geek beanie? Really? Can't I just
go sit by the pond, feed the fish and drink a nice glass of Merlot?
(Maureen, you're welcome to share.)

Okay. *pout*

Usenet is a really big "thing" that has been around for many years,
predating the internet and the web. It originally, from my
understanding, started out as a communications medium for serious stuff
like science, research, etc. This is the reason for the prefixes such
as sci., bionet., it., etc. Over time, other things started up as us
geeks decided to branch out into other things that struck our fancy -
recreational stuff (rec.), alternative stuff (alt.) and so on and so
forth.

Data from usenet is gotten by feeds. Most systems have a usenet feed
because of it's multiple uses. It's actually not quite the whopping
space hog that email is in that it only stores one copy of each post
that everyone can go out "there" to read. Unlike email, where if I send
one email to fifty of my colleagues in the university where I work,
there will be an identical complete copy of that email stored in each of
those fifty people's mailboxes.

As to the cost, well, because it is often used for research purposes, it
can be a genuine need so the feed must be carried. There are also
people who look at it as a must have when shopping for an ISP. In
addition, it's also just part of the general cost of being part of the
world. You might as well ask why each computer on the internet also
relays mail to other nodes, playing a giant game of "pass it on". (This
can take *lots* of disk space especially if a node up the line goes down
and your forced to hold mail until the node comes back up. Think sink
with stopper closed versus open.) This is just all part of the "rules"
one agrees to when one becomes part of this world. Isn't it nice that
they do? *grin*

Yeesh. *smile* Is it time to go home yet? I'm jonesin' for a pondfix.

Susan
shsimko[@]duke[.]edu