| What is USENET? It is a collection of
user-submitted notes or messages on various subjects that are posted to servers on a
worldwide network. Each subject collection of posted notes is known as a newsgroups.
There are thousands of newsgroups and it is possible for you to form a new one. Most
groups are hosted on Internet-connected servers, but they can also be hosted from servers
that are not part of the Internet. The original protocol was UNIX-to-UNIX Copy (UUCP),
but today the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP)
is used.
Usenet is mostly accessed via newsgroup readers, such as Outlook Express, that run as
separate programs.
Why use a Private Newsfeed ?
Where is your normal news server? At Netcom? America
Online? A provider in France? Belgium? Singapore? Beware, wherever you are!!Your internet
provider can see in their modem logs which user is connected to each of their modems at
every point of time. And they can see what modem node is using their own news server and
what newsgroup the user on that modem is reading and even what exact articles and pictures
that user is downloading.A news server logs your activities by default! You may not have
known this, but this is the truth. It is possible to turn the logging off. But almost NO
newsmasters have done this, sometimes at the request of the police in their country. One
way to fight is to read your news from a server on secure ground! There have been cases
where police received permission to go through the logs of internet providers to find
people who may have downloaded material posted on internet news groups that happened to be
illegal in the specific city or country of download
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