For all its widespread use, UUCP is said to be a difficult UNIX utilities to master. This book is for system administrators who want to install and manage UUCP and Usenet software.
This text describes the communications and file transfer program UUCP. UUCP is regaining its popularity among computer users because it works efficiently on the PC-sized computers most people use today. UUCP is very attractive to computer users with limited resources, a small machine, and a dial-up connection. In addition to Taylor UUCP, the text ...
This book shows users how to communicate with both UNIX and non-UNIX systems using UUCP and cu or tip, and how to read news and post articles. This handbook assumes that UUCP is already running at your site.
Providing quick ways to find a particular topic on the Internet, this text focuses on newsgroups. The book features mini-reviews of 2300 newsgroups, 21,000 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) files, and a list of more than 8000 Internet newsgroups.
Everyone has a need for exchanging information, and USENET - an important part of the electronic Internet - is a valuable, and powerful, tool for exchanging information informally, worldwide, among people with like interests on any subject imaginable. The available books on the Internet, however, touch only briefly on USENET - and often at a level ...
The Elements of Electronic Communication is a brief, practical, how-to guide to effective electronic communication. It puts the contemporary technology of electronic media into context by offering examples of how writers create electronic messages and how receivers of electronic messages respond. The Elements of Electronic Communication offers ...
Aimed at IT professionals who wish to provide access to Usenet news groups or use a news server as part of a corporate Intranet, this book details the installation, configuration, optimization and ongoing management of a news server on a Unix platform. It is divided into three sections, covering planning, constructing and administration. The CD ...
You'll learn how to find, access, participate in, and subscribe to the newsgroups you want most. The Usenet Book also provides you with an encyclopedic section that fully describes the focus, mission, and character of the top 300 most useful newsgroups.
This text includes tutorials on four of the most popular newsreaders (including tin and Trumpet for Windows), network etiquette, processing encoded and compressed files.
An essential reference for beginning Internet users, The Complete Idiot's Guide to USENET teaches users how to subscribe to--and successfully participate in USENET newsgroups. The book's friendly format combines solid instructions with a lighthearted style that takes the fear out of choosing a newsgroup reader program, locating and subscribing to ...
The Usenet is a phenomenal computer news service. But--until now--using the Usenet has not been as easy as opening the morning newspaper or turning on the TV. Now, this guide provides detailed lessons on using the various news readers and software. For the first time all the major news reader software is examined and compiled into one ...
This book will help the millions of beginning and intermediate Internet users become more productive with newsreader software, learn how to send and receive graphics and other files, avoid getting flamed, and become accepted by the Internet community. The disk includes Windows and Mac versions of a newsreader program and graphics decoding and ...
This book provides an overview of interfaces to social information spaces, illustrated by several contemporary systems including Usenet News and CoWebs. Beginning with a general outline of those systems and a history of Usenet News, it looks at the problems of exploring virtual communities and distributed information systems, and of finding ...
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