Usenet is still useful
Howard Lake | 12 February 2001 | News
Newcomers to the Internet may not be aware of some of the older elements of the Net that pre-date the Web. Despite its age, Usenet, for example, remains a useful if underused tool for charities in the UK.
Newcomers to the Internet may not be aware of some of the older elements of the Net that pre-date the Web. Despite its age, Usenet, for example, remains a useful if underused tool for charities in the UK.
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In addition to the many charity-specific newsgroups or discussion fora, there is one general charity newsgroup which regularly features fundraising issues. Uk.community.voluntary aims “to provide a forum for the discussion of the activities of UK based charities and voluntary organisations.” You do not have to contribute to the discussions; indeed many users simply “lurk” and use the information posted by others.
Find out more from the UK Usenet Committee.
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About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.