Usenet

Usenet - Protect Yourself

The wonderful thing about Usenet is that it is much, much more secure than Peer-to-Peer services such as Torrents. However, there is always a few things you can do to secure yourself a little bit more. Why not read this post and double check to make sure you aren’t missing out on any additional security?

Usenet - Downloading

Without the aid of tools such as search engines, it use to be quite hard to find what you wanted on Usenet. You had to watch and wait for posts to come by, so you’d subscribe to a group and monitor that group. Nowadays, you can simply go to a search engine and search for what you’d like to find. Simple!
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Usenet - Introduction

Usenet is widely used all over the internet, but when you ask the common person, who knows about P2P(BitTorrent, etc) file sharing, they don’t know what it is. It seems even though it’s used all over, it’s only used by select groups. Generally, all these people fall into the “Techie” group. A lot of older people, who are technically inclined, know what it is but only what it was generally used for in their time.