• On Usenet, the Usenet Death Penalty (UDP) is a final penalty that may be issued against Internet service providers or single users who produce too much...
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    There Is No Cabal (category Usenet)
    catchphrase and running joke found on Usenet. The journalist Wendy M. Grossman writes that its appearance on the alt.usenet.cabal FAQ reflects conspiracy accusations...
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  • Backbone cabal (redirect from Usenet cabal)
    system Usenet. It existed from about 1983 until around 1988. The cabal was created in an effort to facilitate reliable propagation of new Usenet posts...
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    Usenet (/ˈjuːznɛt/), USENET, or, "in full", User's Network, is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers. It was developed from...
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  • communications method User Defined Primitive, a construct in Verilog Usenet Death Penalty, a discussion group disciplinary response Universality–diversity...
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  • August, after finding alternate routes for moderated newsgroups, a Usenet death penalty (UDP) was issued against UUNET. A week later, the UDP was lifted...
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  • Kill file Section 230 Shunning Terms of service Twitter suspensions Usenet Death Penalty Leerssen, Paddy. "An End to Shadow Banning? Transparency rights in...
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    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...
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    fallbackPages displaying short descriptions with no spaces Spam King Usenet Death Penalty – Policy of blocking and deleting posts See: Advance fee fraud "Developer...
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  • Kill file (category Usenet)
    Blocking a user from an online community without their awareness Usenet death penalty – Policy of blocking and deleting postsPages displaying short descriptions...
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  • Cancelbot (category Usenet)
    semi-automated process for sending out third-party cancel messages over Usenet, commonly as a stopgap measure to combat spam. One of the earliest uses...
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  • Meow Wars (category Usenet)
    the power to block posters from multiple Usenet servers. Kalisch declared a limited form of Usenet Death Penalty (UDP) when he became offended by what he...
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    District Court ordered a temporary injunction on Neij and Svartholm with a penalty of 500,000 kronor each, forbidding them from participating in the operation...
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    prominent examples of doxing took place on internet discussion forums on Usenet in the late 1990s, including users circulating lists of suspected neo-Nazis...
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  • genre consisting of images and videos of ex-girlfriends distributed through Usenet groups. In 2008, amateur porn aggregator XTube began receiving complaints...
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    self-identification and shared experience. The initialism BDSM is first recorded in a Usenet post from 1991, and is interpreted as a combination of the abbreviations...
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    Velvalee Dickinson (category 1980s deaths)
    Machine Document is in Italian; Google translation is available here The Spy in the Doll Shop in Smithsonian Magazine 50 Years Ago – July 1944 from Usenet...
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  • Roberto Suárez Gómez (category 2000 deaths)
    "Roberto Suarez Gomez ("King of Cocaine"), 68". Newsgroup: alt.obituaries. Usenet[email protected]. Gunson, Phil (3 August 2000)...
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  • Creating a branch "forks off" a version of the program. The term was in use on Usenet by 1983 for the process of creating a subgroup to move topics of discussion...
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    online child pornography" by no longer hosting many Usenet groups. Time Warner Cable ceased offering Usenet altogether, Sprint ended access to the 18,408 newsgroups...
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  • million to U.S. authorities. Serdar Argic (a.k.a. Zumabot), who disrupted Usenet by posting up to 100 messages per day on different newsgroups in an attempt...
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    2006. Free technical support is traditionally provided through online Usenet newsgroups, and CompuServe in the past, monitored by Microsoft employees;...
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    are caught using a hand-held mobile phone while driving will have three penalty points added to their license in addition to the fine of £60. This increase...
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    1979 (redirect from Deaths in 1979)
    toponyms. VisiCalc becomes the first commercial spreadsheet program. The first usenet experiments are conducted by Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis of Duke University...
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  • distributed by many Internet sources, primarily on the alt.fan.karla-homolka Usenet newsgroup. Information and rumours spread across myriad electronic networks...
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    part of what would become the open source movement. (They included the Usenet caching software NNTPCache, and Surfraw, a command-line interface for web-based...
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    Intelligence Laboratory. ARPANET evolved into the Internet in the 1990s. Usenet, conceived by Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis in 1979 at the University of North...
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  • dispositions in force with the July 10, 1996 law abolishing death penalty and modifying criminal penalties (M.B. March 13, 2003) Law of May 10, 2007 modifying...
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  • She was sentenced to death but the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment after the NSW Government abolished the death penalty; she was eventually...
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  • "Blackwater 61 – Cockpit Voice Recording". Newsgroup: rec.aviation.military. Usenet[email protected]. Archived from the original on November 8, 2012....
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