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	<description>Usenet ramblings and information</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>misnomers and corrections</title>
		<link>http://www.usenetplus.com/blog/2008/08/07/misnomers-and-corrections/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The hardcore usenet user knows that usenet has been around since before the world wide web. And yet users are still clueless about usenet.
Daily in discussions on usenet we see threads (a series of posts) that refer to usenet as a list or a forum.
Usenet is not a forum, technically speaking anyways. Yes a forum [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Merry Christmas</title>
		<link>http://www.usenetplus.com/blog/2007/12/25/merry-christmas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.usenetplus.com/blog/2007/12/25/merry-christmas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2007 06:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Merry Christmas everyone. Have a great holiday season and a happy new year.
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		<title>RIAA sues usenet.com</title>
		<link>http://www.usenetplus.com/blog/2007/10/18/riaa-sues-usenetcom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.usenetplus.com/blog/2007/10/18/riaa-sues-usenetcom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It had to happen sooner or later, the litigation happy group known as the RIAA has sued Usenet.com
Attached is a PDF of the complaint where all the lastyness is laid out for us to see. Of course the complaint takes some liberal uses of available text and content.
Shall usenet prevail? Usenet has been around longer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows Vista &#038; Piracy</title>
		<link>http://www.usenetplus.com/blog/2007/08/27/windows-vista-piracy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.usenetplus.com/blog/2007/08/27/windows-vista-piracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Somewhat related to usenet, this is a rant that just needs to come out.
I sure have seen a lot of Windows Vista on usenet. Home edition, premium edition, useless features edition.
Well I just got a computer today that has Vista on it. What a piece of crap! Nice looking Toshiba laptop, beautiful wide screen, supposedly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giganews Accelerator</title>
		<link>http://www.usenetplus.com/blog/2007/07/20/giganews-accelerator/</link>
		<comments>http://www.usenetplus.com/blog/2007/07/20/giganews-accelerator/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 22:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Giganews Accelerator is a Windows based application which enables Giganews account holders to download compressed newsgroup headers and utilize Giganews&#8217; encrypted Usenet access services.
In addition to supporting 256-bit SSL encrypted Usenet for Giganews account holders with SSL enabled, the Giganews Accelerator encrypts all authentication and NNTP commands for every customer, regardless of account level. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giganews at 200 days retention!</title>
		<link>http://www.usenetplus.com/blog/2007/07/15/giganews-at-200-days-retention/</link>
		<comments>http://www.usenetplus.com/blog/2007/07/15/giganews-at-200-days-retention/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 04:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I must have been asleep at the keyboard, as Giganews recently announced they will now have 200 days of binary retention by the end of summer!
That&#8217;s one heck of a lot of data. With a newsfeed currently pushing 3.5TB per day that works out to around 700TB and is high enough to now count in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of sporge and lamers</title>
		<link>http://www.usenetplus.com/blog/2007/07/12/of-sporge-and-lamers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.usenetplus.com/blog/2007/07/12/of-sporge-and-lamers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most annoying things on usenet is sporge. What is sporge some might ask?
Sporge is short for spammed forgery, simple enough in it&#8217;s name, but it&#8217;s use makes some users go mental.
When someone decides to sporge a group they typically take a popular posters nym (their name or nick on usenet) and make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More paypal spam</title>
		<link>http://www.usenetplus.com/blog/2007/05/26/more-paypal-spam/</link>
		<comments>http://www.usenetplus.com/blog/2007/05/26/more-paypal-spam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2007 06:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[People don&#8217;t learn do they? The latest dumbass spamming usenet with his paypal get rich scheme posted the following
&#8220;Remember, all of this is ABSOLUTELY LEGAL! You are creating a service! A Business&#8230; An Email List Service Business. If you have any doubts, please refer to Title 18 Sec. 1302 &#38; 1241 of the United States [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paypal spam</title>
		<link>http://www.usenetplus.com/blog/2007/05/02/paypal-spam/</link>
		<comments>http://www.usenetplus.com/blog/2007/05/02/paypal-spam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 21:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s truly sad to see that some people still assume that they can spam usenet with their &#8216;paypal get rich legally&#8217; schemes and not run into problems.
So today I thought I&#8217;d take a look into it and see what can/will happen.
Not only will paypal close your account and freeze your funds for 180 days your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Usenet Works</title>
		<link>http://www.usenetplus.com/blog/2007/04/30/how-usenet-works/</link>
		<comments>http://www.usenetplus.com/blog/2007/04/30/how-usenet-works/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Technical]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Excerpt from the book Electronic Mail by Jacob Palme
Usenet News is a distributed computer conferencing system. Conferences in Usenet News are called newsgroups, and messages are called articles.
The basic principle of Usenet News is that a local server handles most of the functionality. Usenet News standardizes two variants of the NNTP protocols: One for communication [...]]]></description>
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