Usenet news can generally be thought of as public e-mail as that is generally the way it behaves In reality, it is implemented by different software and is often accessed by different programs Different newsgroups adhere to different topics, and some are "moderated", meaning that humans will try to manually remove off-topic posts, especially spam Most established newsgroups have a FAQ, and people are strongly encouraged to read the FAQ prior to posting
new information about specific and timely events; "they awaited news of the outcome"
a distribution system (Nikkei Economic Data Wire Service) that feeds broadcast and online services
A term often used to denote USENET news, a popular forum for discussion on the Internet
News is a system for exchanging related public messages across the Internet News is organized into topic-related newsgroups When a URL points to a location that starts with news: //, the URL is pointing to a newsgroup Note that not all br owsers support a news interface
The Internet protocol for retrieving files from an Internet news service (Usenet Newsgroups)
Uses the Network News Transport Protocol to access an NNTP (Usenet News) Server It is the browser that determines which NNTP server to use The format of the NEWS URL is different For example: news: rec humor allows the reader to access the newsgroup rec humor
The Internet protocol for retrieving files from an Internet newsgroup You can create news hyperlinks (news: //) in FrontPage
{i} report of recent events; information about previously unknown facts; people or events that are currently of interest
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News is information that is published in newspapers and broadcast on radio and television about recent events in the country or world or in a particular area of activity. Foreign News is on Page 16 We'll also have the latest sports news The announcement was made at a news conference Those are some of the top stories in the news
If you say that someone or something is news, you mean that they are considered to be interesting and important at the moment, and that people want to hear about them on the radio and television and in newspapers. A murder was big news If you are a celebrity, you are headline news