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• Usenet and Big-8 Links
  Please [mailto:webmaster@big-8.org contact us] to extend or correct these links. |[ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.announce.newusers/ MIT news.announce.newusers FTP archive]
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• Links
  #REDIRECT [[Usenet and Big-8 Links]]
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• Main Page
  ...ss="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 side <p class="h1">The '''Usenet Big-8 Management Board'''</p>
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• Usenet and Big-8 Links
  Please [mailto:webmaster@big-8.org contact us] to extend or correct these links. |[ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.announce.newusers/ MIT news.announce.newusers FTP archive]
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• What is Usenet?
  |"Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea:<br /> massive, diffic [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet Usenet] is a decentralized, worldwide, peer-to-peer system for circulating newsgro
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• Other Usenet Hierarchies
  * Each of the subsets of the Big-8 is a hierarchy (comp.*, humanities.*, misc.*, news.*, rec.*, sci.*, soc.*, ...soc, or talk, then it is in a different hierarchy outside the scope of the Big-8 Management Board.
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• Minutes/2023-06-23
  ...nning them? TM suggested to ask about this on {{news|news.admin.net-abuse.usenet}} and to discuss the result at the next meeting. ** RL has fixed the Big-8's webmail (again).
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• How to find a charter
  ...es, or otherwise modifies a newsgroup. A '''newgroup''' control file for a Big-8 newsgroup will almost always contain a charter for that group. ...n can be found at [https://ftp.isc.org/usenet/control/ https://ftp.isc.org/usenet/control/].
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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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• News.newusers.questions
  ...sgroup {{news|news.newusers.questions}} is for questions and answers about Usenet and the Internet. Newcomers to newsgroups and the Internet in general can a ...roup. Then, your article must propagate back to your news server by way of Usenet news feeds. The entire process may take from minutes to hours.
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• Big-8 Management FAQ
  ...n the task of rethinking how to manage the [[Checkgroups|official list for Big-8 newsgroups]]. ...Board to make suggestions about how to revise the management of the [[big8|Big-8 newsgroup hierarchies.]] After a year on probation, the [[n.a.n.]] moderat
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• Content and Format of a Request for Discussion (RFD)
  * The name must begin with one of the branches of the big-8: comp, rec, humanities, sci, talk, soc, misc, news. ...proposed name and newsgroup description line using [http://pjr.gotdns.org/usenet/validator this validator].
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• Big-8 Usenet hierarchies
  <!-- Edited 2013-01-21 (ewh) replaced links to Joe Berstein's site so they point to archive.com --> <!-- Edited 2013-01-20 (ewh) removed links to Joe Bernstein's old Panix site -->
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