Configure Usenet Servers

[eeeboy]

Originally Posted by Movie Man

How is Usenet related to the Internet?

I have found this answer in this form :

This ability to both read and write into a Usenet newsgroup makes the Usenet very different from the bulk of what people today call ``the Internet.'' The Internet has become a colloquial term to refer to the World Wide Web, and the Web is (largely) read-only. There are online discussion groups with Web interfaces, and there are mailing lists, but Usenet is probably more convenient than either of these for most large discussion communities. This is because the articles get replicated to your local Usenet server, thus allowing you to read and post articles without accessing the global Internet, something which is of great value for those with slow Internet links. Usenet articles also conserve bandwidth because they do not come and sit in each member's mailbox, unlike email based mailing lists. This way, twenty members of a mailing list in one office will have twenty copies of each message copied to their mailboxes. However, with a Usenet discussion group and a local Usenet server, there's just one copy of each article, and it does not fill up anyone's mailbox.

source :http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Usenet-News-HOWTO/x27.html

[Will.Spencer]

Originally Posted by Movie Man

How is Usenet related to the Internet?

The Internet is a big IP-based network which supports many Layer 4 protocols.
Usenet is a distributed system for online discussion groups which uses a protocol called NNTP (Network News Transport Protocol). NNTP runs over IP.

Usenet News appears to be slowly losing popularity to web-based discussion groups, such as this one.

Originally Posted by Movie Man

What are Usenet servers?

Usenet consists of servers and clients. The messages (posts) on Usenet are not stored in one central server, but are instead copied to servers all over the globe. Each server provides service to a number of (usually local) clients.

Originally Posted by Movie Man

Where do I configure these Usenet servers?

In your Usenet News client.

To read Usenet newsgroups, you will need an NNTP client, such as Mozilla Thunderbird.

Then, you will need to tell your Usenet client the addresses of you NNTP servers.

In most cases, your ISP will provide you with NNTP servers as part of your Internet service. Contact your ISP, tell them you want to read Usenet newsgroups, and ask them the addresses of your Usenet news servers.

Then, configure those NNTP servers into your Usenet news client.