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Usenet is one of the oldest parts of the Internet.

It consists of discussion groups called "newsgroups". Servers propagate messages in a peer-to-peer fashion. Clients connect to servers to read and post to newsgroups.

Access to Usenet is normally tolled. If you pay a fee, you may purchase real NNTP access to a Usenet server, and connect your own client software (and trade large files at binary groups). Many Usenet participants are stuck using free methods like http://groups.google.com to read and post.

Usenet hierarchy[]

The tree listed here is restricted to those groups, past or present, that have some substantial connection to NetHack. The full Usenet hierarchy is of course much vaster than this.

  • comp.
    • comp.sources.
      • comp.sources.games
  • rec.
  • net. (obsolete; see Great Renaming. All known versions of Hack were posted here)
    • net.sources.
      • net.sources.games

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