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...popular diversion for fas users, and the Internet community, is known as Usenet, or netnews. Usenet is a system of bulletin boards that operate across the Internet, allowing individuals to read and leave messages on a variety of topics...
Messages on Usenet aren't "real-time;" you don't miss out if you're not there every second. Instead, each of these messages are stored for a certain length of time, accessible when you want to read them. Think of it as a protracted conversation with individuals who aren't constrained by location or schedules, but who come together to discuss common interests...
...news echoed dully across Usenet last week, like the sound of a body being dropped to the floor. It traveled first from Finland across the Net and then bounced instantly to wired people everywhere in the world. If you like, you can experience that doomed moment yourself--it's still frozen there on the newsgroups that convene to comfort people in troubled times. On alt.sex.abuse.recovery, for instance, you'll find a discussion that begins with the subject line "The End of Penet.fi...
Judging from the thousands of messages that have been plastered across Usenet, the vast bulletin-board system of the Internet, something more than silliness is going on here. "He wasn't your average murderer," writes a typical fan on alt.fan.unabomber. (For Unabomber info on the Web, go to: http://pathfinder.com/ pathfinder/features/unabomber/index.html). In fact, spiritual strands link antigovernment cyberpunks and the outlaw...
...there is a valid philosophical reason for opposing the white power newsgroup that transcends the issue of its relevancy. Newsgroups do not exist in a public forum. The computers which carry Usenet news are privately owned resources, and each new group they carry takes up expensive disk space. There's a huge difference between an individual allowing an opponent to have his say, and that individual using his own private resources to propagate his opponent's views in a misguided notion of fair play. While it would be reprehensible for me to lobby for legislation banning neo-Nazi speech...