Usenet (/ˈjuːznɛt/), USENET, or, "in full", User's Network, is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers. It was developed from...

with each other being summed Cancel message, a special message used to remove Usenet articles posted to news servers Cancel character, an indication that...

use Usenet, essentially "killing" their service. Messages that fall under the jurisdiction of a Usenet Death Penalty will be cancelled. Cancelled messages...

Index, developed by Seth Breidbart, is the most significant cancel index in Usenet. A cancel index measures the dissemination intensity of substantively...

A Usenet personality was a particular kind of Internet celebrity, being an individual who gained a certain level of notoriety from posting on Usenet, a...

alt.sex is a Usenet newsgroup – a discussion group within the Usenet network – relating to human sexual activity. It was popular in the 1990s. An October...

automated or semi-automated process for sending out third-party cancel messages over Usenet, commonly as a stopgap measure to combat spam. One of the earliest...

Newsgroup spam is a type of spam where the targets are Usenet newsgroups. Usenet convention defines spamming as excessive multiple posting, i.e. repeated...

Usenet II was a proposed alternative to the classic Usenet hierarchy, started in 1998. Unlike the original Usenet, it was peered only between "sound sites"...

if it exists) of the cancel message must match the target article. This verification does not work well in modern day Usenet and is rarely used. Additional...

was a program developed by Richard Depew in 1993 to aid in the control of Usenet abuse. Concerned by abusive posts emanating from certain anonymous-posting...

to handle Usenet articles. It may also refer to a computer itself which is primarily or solely used for handling Usenet. Access to Usenet is only available...

free and open-source Usenet control client. The program is written in Java and allows the user to auto-cancel any messages on Usenet based on author, subject...

a Canadian computer security consultant from Ottawa, who fought spam on Usenet and the early Internet. Active in volunteer anti-spam efforts in the late...

When a message is replied to in e-mail, Internet forums, or Usenet, the original can often be included, or "quoted", in a variety of different posting...

the alias used in one of the first automated newsgroup spam incidents on Usenet, with the objective of denying the Armenian genocide. For a period of several...

first used in Internet slang, with numerous unattested accounts of BBS and Usenet origins in the early 1980s or before. The English noun "troll" in the standard...

September 1993, AOL added Usenet access to its features. This is commonly referred to as the "Eternal September", as Usenet's cycle of new users was previously...

alt.religion.scientology (also known as a.r.s and ARS) was a Usenet newsgroup started in 1991 to discuss the controversial beliefs of Scientology and the...

(1997-10-23). "10,000 Newsgroup Postings Deleted: Usenet Cancel Engine permits deliberate destruction of Usenet postings". PC World. IDG. Retrieved 2009-05-27...

colloquially as xna, is a newsgroup message header field used to prevent a Usenet message from being archived in various servers. The need for X-No-Archive...

and the ability to cancel and supersede articles. Ron Newman (1995-01-09). "The "Good Net-Keeping Seal of Approval" for Usenet Software". 1.2. Archived...

so-called "resurrector bot" that responded to any attempts at canceling a message on the usenet newsgroup news.admin.net-abuse by re-posting the message....

forged control messages (special posts used to create newsgroups, cancel individual usenet posts, and so on) caused the creation of hundreds of oddly-named...

A spamtrap can also be a Usenet newsgroup whose sole purpose is to lure cross-posted spam. For example, the alt.sex.cancel newsgroup charter states that...

started with your own website. On 6 August 1991, Berners-Lee first posted, on Usenet, a public invitation for collaboration with the WorldWideWeb project. In...

Eric S. Raymond discontinued his PC-clone UNIX Software Buyer's Guide on USENET, stating, "The reason I am dropping this is that I run Linux now, and I...

gz[permanent dead link] Troy Rollo (January 20, 1993). "/dcc". Newsgroup: alt.irc. Usenet: [email protected]. Retrieved November 10, 2010...

of Internet phenomena Online streamer Role model Social media marketing Usenet celebrity Virtual influencer "Most used social media 2021". Statista. Archived...

autism conferences, namely the autistic-led autreat, penpal lists, and Usenet. The framework grew out of the disability rights movement and builds on...