Usenet: Netnews for Everyone (Hewlett-Packard Professional Books) [Paperback]

Jenny A. Fristrup (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1994 | Series: Hewlett-Packard Professional Books

Everyone has a need for exchanging information, and USENET - an important part of the electronic Internet - is a valuable, and powerful, tool for exchanging information informally, worldwide, among people with like interests on any subject imaginable. The available books on the Internet, however, touch only briefly on USENET - and often at a level beyond the grasp of the average, non-technical individual. This volume is the first book to focus exclusively on the USENET - not on the entire Internet. It introduces the non-technical, everyday person to the concept of electronic information exchange via USENET newsgroups - showing how to make contact, how to use the it, and what newsgroups are available. It thus serves as a stepping stone for non- technical people to the Information Superhighway. Provides an introduction to the concept of the USENET and its newsgroups (how people use newsgroups, rather than just how newsgroups work); explains how conversations are structured and distributed; contains an all inclusive list of what newsgroups are available; and shows how to get access to the USENET.

Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall Ptr (July 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0131231677
• ISBN-13: 978-0131231672
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.9 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,382,799 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jenny was born in 1962 and spent the first dozen or so years traveling the world as an "oil patch brat." She has lived in many different countries and loves the perspectives she gained from living in places vastly different than her own. She graduated from California Polytechnic with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics. After graduating, she lived and worked in California's Silicon Valley, where she developed information technology solutions for Fortune 500 clients, and volunteered as a fitness instructor for the YMCA. She lives in a small town in southern California.