rec.knives?

[James Healy]

I almost hate to ask, but what is rec.knives? From what i've heard, it's some kind of other knife discussion site, although it may not be around any more??

Can anyone enlighten me?

James

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The beast we are, lest the beast we become.

 

[David Rock]

rec.knives is a usenet discussion group. It antedates this and all other web-based knife fora, as far as I know. There is some good information to be had there. You can do key word searches using www.deja.com . The main drawback to rec.knives is that it is not moderated.

David Rock




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Stop when you get to bone.

 

[prn]

rec.knives is still active. As David points out, usenet predates the web by a good bit. The group rec.knives was first established about 1989 or 1990.

deja.com is a website that can serve up usenet content, but is nowhere near as convenient as real newsreader software with a real NNTP newsfeed.


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Paul Neubauer
prn@bsu.edu
If the odds are a million to one against something occurring, chances are 50-50 it will.

 

[Jeff Clark]

This is one of the small questions with the big answer. In addition to the World-Wide-Web that you are looking at now, there is a related network of USENET news groups. These are generally text-based forums where people post messages to exchange information and ideas. The whole thing is full of questions and info from people with special interests. The newsgroups have names like "rec.knives" or "alt.binaries.pictures.dogs".

A big difference between the World Wide Web and the newsgroups is that the latter are not linked together by hypertext links (you don't just click your way from newsgroup to newsgroup by selecting highlighted text). You don't use your regular web browser to get to the newsgroup (though your web browser may activate another tool to get you there). If you have Microsoft Outlook Express on your computer, it has the ability to "Read News" that gets you to the newsgroups (Internet Explorer has an option to Read News that invokes Outlook Express to do the job).

If you open up Outlook Express you can select: Tools--Accounts--News--Add--News to allow you to input the address of your ISP's news server. Typically this is something like: "news.wxyzISPcompany.net". Once you've got that in the program you are on your way. Your news program will ask you if you want to update your news directory (yes). It will load a list of thousands of available newsgroups. You will be able to look at and/or subscribe to the newsgroups. Newsgroup material is updated constantly and is eliminated after a few days or weeks.

You should try and take a look. It's educational.


[This message has been edited by Jeff Clark (edited 08-08-2000).]