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Below are some helpful articles related to Usenet to help you get started using Usenet for filesharing.

Although Usenet can be a bit complicated nonetheless there are many benefits such as privacy, high speed downloads (when compared to other filesharing mechanisms).

Hopefully these Usenet tutorials and Usenet how to guides will make it easier for you to get started.

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NBRemote Install Tutorial – Instructions, Tips And Tricks


We’ve told you about the release of the newest NewsBin app to the app store, NBRemote, but in that announcement we didn’t have enough room to add the installation instructions…well, here they are, but you will need to handle a couple of small details first, we outlined these then, but just in case you missed [...]

Usenet Compared To Social Networking


While the USENET system is something that most people access over the Internet, it has actually been around a lot longer than the Internet has. In fact, when USENET debuted, most people didn’t even own a personal computer. Over the years, the system has continued to evolve and is still in heavy usage today. In [...]

Is a Newsreader Hard to Use?


When you connect to the USENET system, you connect with a news reader. This is a specific piece of software that allows you to hook into what is usually termed the server’s news feed.   A Newsreader provides the means by which you download articles, download attachments and by which you upload both of those [...]

The Decentralized Design of USENET


If you understand the way the Internet works, the workings of the USENET system will be very familiar to you. It is a decentralized system in which each individual server has a specific administrator but which has no overarching authority that applies to all of the servers. Each individual server connects to others and, eventually, [...]

The Technical Basics of USENET Part 2


Like many of the technologies we’re using today, USENET has its origins in the work of two motivated and creative individuals who were looking for a better way to work with information in the 1970s. In this case, two students at the universities of North Carolina and Duke University started exchanging information, which they logically [...]

Enjoying the USENET to its Fullest


The USENET is one of the most delightfully liberated places in the world. There are literally no rules to the USENET. The closest that the system comes to having rules are the conventions by which new groups are created and the policies of moderators in determining what is appropriate and what is inappropriate for the [...]

USENET Hierarchies – Explained Again


Here is another attempt at explaining USENET Hierarchies When the USENET first came out, there were so few users that organizing groups into logical hierarchies was not a particularly pressing concern. By the time the mid-80s rolled around, however, there were up to 500 posts being made every day and the topics were wide-ranging enough [...]

The Five Alternative USENET Hierarchies


The most established and popular hierarchies on the USENET system belonged to the Big 8 hierarchies, those created in the mid-1980s to help deal with the increasing popularity of the USENET system. There are five other hierarchies, however, called the Five Alternative hierarchies or, simply, the alternative hierarchies. These hierarchies are subject to the same [...]

Advantages Of Moderated Newsgroups


Moderated USENET newsgroups offer quite a few advantages over newsgroups that don’t have any moderators at all. One of the biggest problems on the USENET in the past was the propagation of spam across most of the groups. This drove many users away from this great resource, even though the best groups on USENET were [...]

The USENET soc Hierarchy


The USENET soc hierarchy was created in the mid-1980s and constitutes one of the Big Eight hierarchies, the oldest currently operating hierarchies on the USENET system. The system of naming was devised to better separate the subjects of the various newsgroups contained within them. The USENET system became very popular in the 1980s and seven [...]