Re: net.martyr
"Adam H. Kerman" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | alt.fan.usenet,alt.culture.usenet,news.groups |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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Grant Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: >On 2/28/24 19:08, Sn!pe wrote: >>What distinguishes one from the other? >I'm assuming that "NetNews" is a reference to FidoNet (or other FTN) echos. >Usenet is one set of groups and FidoNet echos are a different set of groups. I don't agree. NetNews and Usenet are synonymous terms. RFCs 850 and 1036 refer to Usenet; RFC 5536 to Netnews. Some documents refer to USENET. There isn't a lot of consistency. The only distinction I make between Usenet and newsgroups is that Usenet is limited to newsgroups whose articles are distributed; local newsgroups aren't Usenet. But plenty of people don't even make that distinction. >With the gatewaying that happens between, there is some amount of >overlap between them. >But each will have newsgroups / echos that the other does not have.