The authors conducted online research to find out what makes the Internet "tick", resulting in this examination of the pioneering vision and actions that have helped make the Net possible. "Netizens" is a detailed description of the Net's construction and a step-by-step view of the past, present, and future of the Internet, the Usenet and the World Wide Web.

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A perfect gift for any Internet user, whatever their level of experience. bull; Written in a straight to the point, understandable format in jargon - free language, by some of the most popular personalities in the field. bull; Backed by a massive marketing campaign, including TV, radio, print, and online appearances by the authors.

For system administrators who want to install and manage the UUCP and Usenet software. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Beginning with a brief outline of Usenet's general structure and development over the past few years, the book addresses the problems of exploring virtual communities and distributed information systems in general, and of finding information in electronic information environments. It covers traditional approaches such as information filtering, collaborative filtering and information retrieval, outlining their successes and failures, and discusses the prospects of novel approaches such as visualisations of social processes and social navigation.

This book will help the millions of beginning and intermediate Internet users become more productive with newsreader software, learn how to send and receive graphics and other files, avoid getting flamed, and become accepted by the Internet community. The disk includes Windows and Mac versions of a newsreader program and graphics decoding and viewing programs.

Newsgroups cover a wide range of subjects and attract people throughout the world to exchanger opinions and engage in electronic debates. This book focuses on every aspect of USENET discussion groups - finding, subscribing and contributing - and explains how to avoid making netiquette blunders. It also explains how to navigate the newsgroups to find useful information. An encylopaedic section fully describes the focus, mission and character of nearly 800 useful newsgroups.