newsgroup

Reed-Solomon is also used in parity files (Parchive [1]) which were especially popular in the newsgroup/usenet days.

Two prior relationships were from college and from the Usenet newsgroup soc.singles.moderated, both back in the '90s.

Think newsgroup/forum style conversational threading, with a separate data channel for large transfers, and landgrab DNS based on popularity.

The newsgroup was best-known during the early and mid-1990s, and can no longer be considered active.

Almost all free-software projects that once used a newsgroup as their primary public discussion venue now have a mailing list, for example.

After reading these, and the replies, I definitely agree with John Resig about that newsgroup: don't read.

After about five or so newsgroup messages from him badmouthing other people I gave up.

But then I could not find any information on how to use transactions, and also received no answers on the newsgroup.

If you read the newsgroup post to the end, this is exactly what the author does, albeit with some important context to the issue omitted.

Usenet died because the ISPs no longer offer newsgroup access.

I think this is from an old newsgroup post, if i'm not mistaken.

Sounds like Usenet re-invented, where stream == newsgroup.

The first link describes it as "D news aggregator, newsgroup client, web newsreader and IRC bot." I don't see anything about mailing list.

I actually agree with this remark: "In the talk.origins newsgroup someone made an offhand remark that they didn't see how anybody, no matter how klutzy their programming, could write an O(n^3) sort." The examples were all constructed by smart people who are deliberately trying to invent slow algorithms.