Business Definition for: newsgroup
newsgroup
a public forum or discussion area on a computer network. All users of the network can post messages, and every user can read all the messages that have been posted. The most famous newsgroups are those distributed worldwide by the Usenet system, covering thousands of topics.
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Usenet
newsgroup
online discussion group that can be accessed only through a program that connects a user to a news server on the Internet.
See also
Usenet
newsgroup
a public forum or discussion area on the
internet
where messages are posted for public consumption and response. The most famous newsgroups are those distributed worldwide by the Usenet system, covering thousands of topics.
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- a set of thousands of newsgroups (discussion forums) distributed via the Internet (formerly distributed through the Usenet wide-area network). Newsgroups have descriptive names such as sci.astro. amateur and are arranged into hierarchies (classifications), of which the main ones are:
| news. |
for announcements about Usenet itself; |
| comp. |
for computer science and technology; |
| sci. |
for other academic topics (including humanities); |
| soc. |
for cultural interest groups; |
| rec. |
for hobbies and sports; |
| talk. |
for wide-ranging discussions, often heated; |
| misc. |
for a few topics that don't fit elsewhere; |
| alt . |
for trial newsgroups and "alternative" topics. |
Usenet has no headquarters; the messages are copied back and forth among numerous servers. However, in recent years, participation in this network has declined, and many users prefer to access the newsgroups through http://groups.google.com (Google Groups). This sometimes creates the false impression that Google runs the whole system. - a wide-area network for UNIX machines that formerly exchanged files by modem through the UUCP ("UNIX-to-UNIX copy") command. Usenet addresses were of the form
psuvax!ugacc!aisun1!mcovingt
(which means "user mcovingt on machine aisun1, which can be reached through ugacc, which can be reached through psuvax"). Usenet has been supplanted by the Internet.
- a set of thousands of newsgroups (discussion forums) distributed via the Internet (formerly distributed through the Usenet wide-area network). Newsgroups have descriptive names such as sci.astro. amateur and are arranged into hierarchies (classifications), of which the main ones are:
| news. |
for announcements about Usenet itself; |
| comp. |
for computer science and technology; |
| sci. |
for other academic topics (including humanities); |
| soc. |
for cultural interest groups; |
| rec. |
for hobbies and sports; |
| talk. |
for wide-ranging discussions, often heated; |
| misc. |
for a few topics that don't fit elsewhere; |
| alt . |
for trial newsgroups and "alternative" topics. |
Usenet has no headquarters; the messages are copied back and forth among numerous servers. However, in recent years, participation in this network has declined, and many users prefer to access the newsgroups through http://groups.google.com (Google Groups). This sometimes creates the false impression that Google runs the whole system. - a wide-area network for UNIX machines that formerly exchanged files by modem through the UUCP ("UNIX-to-UNIX copy") command. Usenet addresses were of the form
psuvax!ugacc!aisun1!mcovingt
(which means "user mcovingt on machine aisun1, which can be reached through ugacc, which can be reached through psuvax"). Usenet has been supplanted by the Internet.
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