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echoes, rooms or
usergroups! Nor, as noted above, are they part of the Internet, though
they may reach your site over it. Furthermore, the people who run the
news systems are called news administrators, not sysops. If you want to
be understood, be accurate.)
DIVERSITY
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If the above definition of Usenet sounds vague, that's because it is.
It is almost impossible to generalize over all Usenet sites in any
non-trivial way. Usenet encompasses government agencies, large
universities, high schools, businesses of all sizes, home computers of
all descriptions, etc, etc.
(In response to the above paragraphs, it has been written that there
is nothing vague about a network that carries megabytes of traffic per
day. I agree. But at the fringes of Usenet, traffic is not so heavy.
In the shadowy world of news-mail gateways and mailing lists, the line
between Usenet and not-Usenet becomes very hard to draw.)
CONTROL
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Every administrator controls his own site. No one has any real
control over any site but his own.
The administrator gets her po
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