This RFC defines the standard format for the interchange of network News messages among
USENET hosts. It updates and replaces RFC-850, reflecting version B2. 11 of the News
program. This memo is distributed as an RFC to make this information easily accessible to …

Usenet is a complex socio-technical phenomenon, containing vast quantities of information.
The sheer scope and complexity make it a challenge to understand the many dimensions
across which people and communication are interlinked. In this work, we present …

Understanding the social roles of the members a group can help to understand the social
context of the group. We present a method of applying social network analysis to support the
task of characterizing authors in Usenet newsgroups. We compute and visualize networks …

Searching for the Leviathan in Usenet by Richard Clark MacKinnon The purpose of this
thesis is to identify signs of Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan in the Usenet computer conferencing
network. Certainly nothing that the Usenet users can experience can compare to the …

Usenet distributes thousands of topically‐oriented discussion groups, reaching millions of
readers world‐wide. Newsgroup participants often create distinctive sub‐cultures, which
have been all but ignored in scholarly work on computer networks and computer‐mediated …

In this paper we explore the nature of offensive conduct and its treatment on Usenet.
Specifically, we examine the frequency, form, and tone of reproaches for misconduct on five
newsgroups: rec. arts. tv. soaps; soc. motss; soc. singles; rec. sports. hockey; and comp. sys …

A database structure is disclosed that is particularly suited to Usenet servers. The database
is thread-hot, synchronized, and highly parallel. In addition, the database structure enables
high speed read/write activity with low latency search processes. The database is statically …

Abstract The Conversation Map system is a Usenet newsgroup browser that analyses the
text of an archive of newsgroup messages and outputs a graphical interface that can be
used to search and read the messages of the archive. The system incorporates a series of …

Recent research on uninhibited behavior in computer‐mediated communication (CMC)
systems have suggested that flaming is social‐context dependent and not a media
characteristic of CMC. This study takes a closer look at the social context in which flaming …