An online discussion group, forum, or electronic bulletin board usually devoted to a specific topic There are tens of thousands of newsgroups on the Internet organized into hierarchies under the Usenet heading covering almost every imaginable subject and/or interest To access newsgroups, you must have a program called a news reader or a Web-based Usenet service that can connect you to the Internet's news servers
A newsgroup is an Internet site where people can put information and opinions about a particular subject so they can be read by everyone who looks at the site. a discussion group on the Internet, with a place where people with a shared interest can exchange messages. Internet forum for discussion of specific subjects. Newsgroups are organized into subjects (e.g., automobiles); each typically has several subgroups (e.g., classic cars, Formula One racing cars). A person starts a threaded discussion by "posting" (uploading) an article; the follow-up replies (including replies to replies) comprise the discussion. A newsgroup name usually consists of an abbreviation (e.g., "rec" for the recreation newsgroup) followed by subgroup names separated by dots (e.g., "rec.music.jazz"). Viewing and posting messages requires a news reader, a program that connects the user to an Internet news server. Most newsgroups are connected via Usenet, a worldwide network that uses the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP). See also bulletin-board system
A discussion group operated through the Internet Not to be confused with LISTSERVERS which operate through e-mail For more information see the Beyond General Web Searching Usenet Newsgroups section
A online forum that contains articles or postings devoted to a similar topic Some articles are formal and are written by paid reporters (e g , as in the Clari groups) and some are posted only with the approval of a moderator in what is called a "moderated" newsgroup The majority of articles are informal and are exchanged among individuals with a common interest or area of expertise
A Newsgroup is an Internet based discussion area that has an agreed topic Newsgroups are accessed using news reader software from Usenet (the Internet system reserved for news group discussion) News groups exist to discuss most areas of interest
A virtual forum focusing on a specific subject The collected email entries (known as news articles) can be perused by all Internet users On this campus, many newsgroups allow people to discuss academic and recreational interests
Perhaps you've already discovered the wild and woolly world of Usenet, which has tens of thousands of lively discussions -- called newsgroups -- on every topic you can imagine Several conversations, called "threads," are usually going on at once in any group; participants take these discussions seriously and often respond to anything they see written ("posted") to the group Be advised that you should participate in newsgroups only after reading through a few threads to get a sense of the conversations and the people that frequent the group Usenet is easily reachable through the Net and through your Web browser
Internet A newsgroup is a topic-focused, public discussion forum on the Internet to which messages are posted Tens of thousands of newsgroups exist, to which millions of users subscribe Most usually newsgroup postings are in the form of requests for help on particular topics, or replies including information thereon
A Newsgroup is a way of sharing news and information across the network that predates the World Wide Web They are made up of bulletin boards where individuals make postings to share with the community More efficient than mass emailing, a message on a newsgroup stays on the news server for all to see without clogging any one's mailbox Newsgroups are frequently used to post important information CWRU has several newsgroups that are restricted to the CWRU community including cwru net general which is a newsgroup for making postings about the CWRU network
A discussion group on Usenet devoted to talking about a specific topic Currently, there are over 15,000 newsgroups Also called usenets, newsgroups consist of messages posted on electronic bulletin boards Each board has a theme, and there are tens of thousands of newsgroups concerning every imaginable topic Many of them cover professional subjects and societies and are rich sources of business information; others are junk and contain little but mindless drivel
A newsgroup provides a hierarchical organization for Internet news messages During the '80s, there were seven major USENET newsgroup hierarchies: comp (computers), misc (miscellaneous), news, rec (recreational), sci (science), soc (social), and tal k Adding a new newsgroup required some time and discussion, so a new hierarchy, alt (alternative) emerged as a way to start a group immediately without any discussion Many more hierarchies, particularly geographically-based hierarchies, have been created over the last few years Anyone can read a message on a newsgroup Newsgoups can be configured to exist on a local network only
Collections of related messages (also called articles) on a particular topic that are posted to a news server by users, which then distributes them to other participating servers There are thousands of newsgroups covering a wide range of subjects You must subscribe to a newsgroup in order to participate in it or to track the discussion on an on-going basis Newsgroups are found primarily on Usenet
(also group) An Internet discussion forum, such as rec pets cats or alt internet services All together, the thousands of newsgroups form a global bulletin board where people talk about every topic imaginable Newsgroups are where you post articles Use AOL NetFind Newsgroup Finder to find the newsgroups that match your interests
An electronic, community bulletin board that enables Internet users all over the world to post and read messages that are public to other users of the group There are more than 30,000 public newsgroups and thousands of private newsgroups collecting hundreds of megabytes of data daily
A discussion group on the Internet devoted to talking about a specific topic It might be a group devoted to discussing your favourite rock band, world politics, hobbies or sports Just about any topic under the sun that people like to talk about is in a newsgroup There are currently over 5,000 newsgroups