> All USENET News is public. Some people use News Software to run local
> setups, but they are not a part of USENET (as a piece of trivia, USENET
> predates the INTERNET as most people know it and although I don't have
> exact dates at hand, it probably predates the APRANET wihich was the
> private pre-cursor to the INTERNET.)
USENET started around 1980 (maybe '79--this was a while ago :) The
earliest versions used uucp (and some sites as late as 1994 where still
using uucp--that's unix to unix copy, by the way. It's my little revenge
on not knowing what fluif was at first). It then migrated to ARPANET and
then to the internet.
I prefer the mailing list format, personally.
Rob
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