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see also guide and links
How the Usenet News Protocols Work Excerpt from the book Electronic Mail by Jacob Palme as amended with online revisions.
International charsets and news by Eric Hall
message threading by Jamie Zawinski describes an "algorithm for threading messages"
mcntp - Transport of NetNews over IP-Multicast
nntp protocol page at Mib Software
Russ' FAQs by Russ Allbery
Cancel
- The Cancel FAQ by Tim Skirvin
- The Newsgroup Care Cancel Cookbook by Rosalind Hengeveld
Organizations:
- IETF: Usenet Article Standard Update (usefor) and NNTP Extensions (nntpext)
Research
- The Internet and Usenet Global Computer Networks 1994 thesis by Tim North
- Netscan -- current (and past) statistics by Collaborative and Multimedia Systems Group.
- Marc Smith is a Research Sociologist in the Collaborative and Multimedia Systems Group
  - Usenet Map -- neat depiction of the structure
  - Communities in Cyberspace: Perspectives on New Forms of Social Organization (co-author with Peter Kollock) (esp. see Invisible Crowds in Cyberspace: Measuring and Mapping the Social Structure of USENET)
- GroupLens (Univ. of Minn.) "The project began to explore automated collaborative filtering in 1992, but is most well known for its world wide trial of an automated collaborative filtering system for Usenet news in 1996."
Statistics
- Netscan -- current (and past) statistics by Collaborative and Multimedia Systems Group.
- Newsrate Usenet Server Comparisons by Mib Software providing daily statistical sampling and comparison to "expected" news server performance for a low monthly fee.
- Top 1000 Usenet Sites
- Usenet TOP1000 servers alternate home page
History
- Jim Ellis, Co-Creator of Usenet, Obituary
- Gene Spafford's goodbye post
- NNTP on the Intranet by Brad Templeton, founder of ClariNet Communications
- Usenet A-News Archive. Old Usenet news articles from 1981 to 1982.

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