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  2. UUNET - Wikipedia

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    Because UUNET started with a loan from Usenix and controlled the e-mail addresses for moderated Usenet groups, it was hard to block email traffic to or from Usenet. In 1997, UUNET had lost so much credit that on 1 August, after finding alternate routes for moderated newsgroups, a Usenet death penalty (UDP) was issued against UUNET. [8]

  3. Mary Ann Horton - Wikipedia

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    November 21, 1955 (age 68) Richland, Washington. Website. maryannhorton.com. Mary Ann Horton (born on November 21, 1955), is a Usenet and Internet pioneer. Horton contributed to Berkeley UNIX (BSD), including the vi editor and terminfo database, [1][2] created the first email binary attachment tool uuencode, and led the growth of Usenet in the ...

  4. Usenet - Wikipedia

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    Usenet newsgroups in the Big-8 hierarchy are created by proposals called a Request for Discussion, or RFD. The RFD is required to have the following information: newsgroup name, checkgroups file entry, and moderated or unmoderated status. If the group is to be moderated, then at least one moderator with a valid email address must be provided.

  5. History of email - Wikipedia

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    The history of email entails an evolving set of technologies and standards that culminated in the email systems in use today. [ 1 ] Computer-based messaging between users of the same system became possible following the advent of time-sharing in the early 1960s, with a notable implementation by MIT 's CTSS project in 1965.

  6. List of Usenet newsreaders - Wikipedia

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    GNOME Evolution. Gnus, is an email and news client, and feed reader for GNU Emacs. Mozilla Thunderbird is a free and open-source [1] cross-platform email client, news client, RSS and chat client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. Pan a full-featured text and binary NNTP and Usenet client for Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, OpenSolaris, and ...

  7. Network News Transfer Protocol - Wikipedia

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    e. The Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) is an application protocol used for transporting Usenet news articles (netnews) between news servers, and for reading/posting articles by the end user client applications. Brian Kantor of the University of California, San Diego, and Phil Lapsley of the University of California, Berkeley, wrote RFC ...

  8. Usenet newsgroup - Wikipedia

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    Usenet newsgroup. A Usenet newsgroup is a repository usually within the Usenet system, for messages posted from users in different locations using the Internet. They are discussion groups and are not devoted to publishing news. Newsgroups are technically distinct from, but functionally similar to, discussion forums on the World Wide Web.

  9. Email-address harvesting - Wikipedia

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    The simplest method involves spammers purchasing or trading lists of email addresses from other spammers.. Another common method is the use of special software known as "harvesting bots" or "harvesters", which uses spider Web pages, postings on Usenet, mailing list archives, internet forums and other online sources to obtain email addresses from public data.