An agreement by which one site sends copies of network news articles to another A given site can arrange for multiple newsfeed to ensure that it receives network news when one connections fails
A subscription from one news server to another for one or more newsgroups Once a news server downloads newsgroup articles from its feeds, clients of the news server can read and resound to those articles
ISPs get their newsgroups from different newsfeeds, or news sources, by transferring them over the Internet, or other networks