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• Getting Started with Usenet
  ...very Usenet server except one were to go down, that wouldn’t be the end of Usenet. However, if Facebook is down, it’s down for everyone. When it’s gone, Usenet is simple. It is plain text.
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• Tutorials
  * [[Getting_Started_with_Usenet|Getting Started with Usenet]] * [[Filtering_Spam_with_Thunderbird|Filtering Spam with Thunderbird]]
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• MediaWiki:Sidebar
  *About Usenet **What is Usenet?|What is Usenet?
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• User:Jason Evans
  ...kindle new interest in Usenet and to see new communities and conversations started and revitalized. My Usenet [[Tutorials]].
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• Main Page
  ...div class="col-3"><img src="https://www.big-8.org/Big-8_logo.svg" alt="The Usenet Big-8 logo: A blue figure 8 superimposed on a yellow figure 8 turned on its <p class="h1">The '''Usenet Big-8 Management Board'''</p>
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• Category:Meeting minutes
  This page is an index of Usenet Big-8 Management Board meetings and discussions. The Board started holding regular (approximately weekly) meetings by videoconference on 25 Ap
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• Nan:2007-01-25-kamens-announce
  coordinator of the Usenet Volunteer Moderators, and a member of the Group Mentors. He will continue to work with the Board as a member of both the
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• Minutes/2023-08-25
  ...ews|comp.ai}} has been experiencing a flood of hundreds of binary articles with randomized Subject and From lines. STUMP's blocking mechanism is ineffecti ** RL has added an article on [[NoCeM]] and a category [[:Category:Usenet infrastructure]].
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• Minutes/2023-08-18
  ** RL received many replies to his post on {{news|news.admin.net-abuse.usenet}}cancels, cancelbots, and other technical anti-spam measures currently in u ...s to post Paul Schleck's sample .newsrc file on our [[Getting Started with Usenet]] tutorial but discovered that the existing instructions in the tutorial or
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• Problems with moderated and unmoderated groups on nonstandard setups
  their domain. This is clearly inconsistent with established Usenet we started getting duplicate submissions. Someone or something was
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• Minutes/2023-07-14
  ** Usenet gateway wiki documentation *** RL has started work on [[Web-to-News Gateways]] and will link to it from the list of [[new
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• Minutes/2020-06-26
  ...using Thunderbird. He has another tutorial in the works on filtering spam with Thunderbird. He will put them on the Big-8 wiki once it's up. He also pla
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• Paid Usenet Providers
  = Usenet Services Map = ...as originally taken from [https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/providers r/usenet] on Reddit. All credit goes to them.
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• Minutes/2023-06-02
  ...ublished a blog post that provides instructions on how to get started with Usenet. TM to reply to Salahuddin and also follow up to the {{news|news.groups}} t ...that this information might inform the Board's future approach to dealing with dead moderated groups.
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• Minutes/2024-03-01
  ...e newsgroup (e.g., failing to approve and post the e-mails it receives) or with the mail-to-news gateway system (e.g., failing to forward the e-mails to th *** RL's discussions with the volunteer moderator have resumed and are ongoing.
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• Newsreaders
  ...ted. This list contains traditional newsreaders for reading and posting to Usenet, but it doesn't contain any mass downloaders for binary newsgroups. If you are looking to get started with Thunderbird, see our [[Tutorials|tutorials]].
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• Filtering Spam with Thunderbird
  ...it’s not uncommon to see two common issues that really turn people off of Usenet. The first is spam and the second is trolls. Trolls first came to life on the Internet via Usenet and some still reside there. What do I mean by a troll? Trolls are mainly p
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• Minutes/2020-05-15
  ...man to get us shell access. Some of the wiki pages seem to be out of date with respect to the Kathy Morgan's static copy at <http://tokak.us/big8/>. TM t ...ing sure the files are updated and migrate the PGP key. Once Russ is done with that, we need to update our instructions for news server admins. JE will h
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• Nan:2006-11-14-stroke-lcc2
  unmoderated Usenet newsgroup, soc.support.stroke. The discussion started with an attempt to start a can.* newsgroup. After a
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• Nan:2006-11-08-stroke-lcc
  unmoderated Usenet newsgroup, soc.support.stroke. The discussion started with an attempt to start a can.* newsgroup. After a
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• Questions Frequently Asked by New Newsgroup Users
  == What is Usenet? == ...wusers/What_is_Usenet%3F article on Usenet]; and a [ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.announce.newusers/What_is_Usenet%3F__A_second_opinion. reply to that a
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