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Someone should mention John Gilmore here, or are all of you conservatives? Family Guy Guy 07:19, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
" Likewise, any and all of the alt.binaries.* newsgroups can be accepted or rejected by administrators if they choose. Binaries are often of extremely large size, which is why administrators may choose to exclude them."
Which administrators are you talking about ? The administrators of the servers providing access to newsgroup ? Or the administrators of the newsgroup itself ? Because, as I can read, there's not really admin for the alt. hierarchies, so I don't understand.
I have no idea what I'm talking about... 04:48, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
Interesting article, though.
I'm the author of the previous post. I apologize, I just had not read the first part of the article, lol.
So, if I understand, there is indeed administrators in the alt hierarchy. And if I want to create a group about, mmh, bananas for instance, named alt.bananas, I have first to submit this idea to the alt.config group, or my group may exist but may not be well distributed. Strange, however, does it mean that the news servers check alt config before to retrieve all the group of alt ? Moreover, what does it means "technically capable" ? What do I need to create a newsgroup with my newsreader ?
Thanks. 16 april 2006
No, there are no "administrators" for individual newsgroups, except for a handful of "moderated" groups that require approval to post in.
This Usenet Tutorial is a page I wrote about 10 years ago that will answer most of your questions about Usenet - rather than filling up a talk page with questions. I'm also removing the Sources tag at the top, as the article has plenty of sources. If there is some fact that needs challenging, please use
{{fact}}
next to the fact you are disputing. StreamingRadioGuide ( talk) 05:06, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
The page currently says "The language of preference in the "original" Usenet hierarchies, including alt.*, is English, which implies that the preferred character set encoding for these newsgroups is ASCII. Other language hierarchies have later been created in parallel to the existing English ones, for example de.* for German, fr.* for French, etc."
It is my understanding that de. and fr. etc are country top-levels and not language top-levels (even though many de. groups would use German as the language of communication). For example, za. mean "South Africa", not "Afrikaans". -- leuce ( talk) 07:57, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
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Someone should mention John Gilmore here, or are all of you conservatives? Family Guy Guy 07:19, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
" Likewise, any and all of the alt.binaries.* newsgroups can be accepted or rejected by administrators if they choose. Binaries are often of extremely large size, which is why administrators may choose to exclude them."
Which administrators are you talking about ? The administrators of the servers providing access to newsgroup ? Or the administrators of the newsgroup itself ? Because, as I can read, there's not really admin for the alt. hierarchies, so I don't understand.
I have no idea what I'm talking about... 04:48, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
Interesting article, though.
I'm the author of the previous post. I apologize, I just had not read the first part of the article, lol.
So, if I understand, there is indeed administrators in the alt hierarchy. And if I want to create a group about, mmh, bananas for instance, named alt.bananas, I have first to submit this idea to the alt.config group, or my group may exist but may not be well distributed. Strange, however, does it mean that the news servers check alt config before to retrieve all the group of alt ? Moreover, what does it means "technically capable" ? What do I need to create a newsgroup with my newsreader ?
Thanks. 16 april 2006
No, there are no "administrators" for individual newsgroups, except for a handful of "moderated" groups that require approval to post in.
This Usenet Tutorial is a page I wrote about 10 years ago that will answer most of your questions about Usenet - rather than filling up a talk page with questions. I'm also removing the Sources tag at the top, as the article has plenty of sources. If there is some fact that needs challenging, please use
{{fact}}
next to the fact you are disputing. StreamingRadioGuide ( talk) 05:06, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
The page currently says "The language of preference in the "original" Usenet hierarchies, including alt.*, is English, which implies that the preferred character set encoding for these newsgroups is ASCII. Other language hierarchies have later been created in parallel to the existing English ones, for example de.* for German, fr.* for French, etc."
It is my understanding that de. and fr. etc are country top-levels and not language top-levels (even though many de. groups would use German as the language of communication). For example, za. mean "South Africa", not "Afrikaans". -- leuce ( talk) 07:57, 13 July 2018 (UTC)