Re: Bogus Usenet outside USA

Mr. Man-wai Chang <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 6/23/2026 2:10 AM, Sn!pe wrote:
> > 
> > Usenet is not under the jurisdiction of United States of America, it is
> > a worldwide distributed service.  Each News Service Provider is under
> > the jurisdiction of its own national lawmakers individually.
> > 
> 
> But is the word "Usenet" like a registered trademark, that all messages
> are supposed to sync with the Usenet in USA? Unless... unless...
> 

Of course not, it's shorthand for "The Users' Network", originally built
on the crude early Internet that connected universities around the
world.  It's completely decentralised and every Usenet newsserver
synchronises with every other newsserver independently of US control.

>
> They created a bogus NNTP network and called it "Usenet". :)
> 
> The reason is to conduct spy and terrorist operations within USA, as for
> example. Or maybe to send an agent to USA that behaves like a certain
> person outside USA, like a double.
>

That's fantastic nonsense.  

You should read about what Usenet is and how it relates to the Internet
as a whole.

Clue:  What many people think of as "The Internet" is actually just the
World Wide Web.  There is very much more than that to it.

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