An Internet utility that allows users to download (notionally, "read") "articles" posted to "newsgroups" by other users interested in the topic the newsgroup was formed to discuss. Also called "Usenet". The newsgroup sci.lang, for example, is dedicated to discussing the science of language. To read news, you need a news client like trn and access to a news server, such as those established at most universities.
A distributed conferencing service composed of a huge collection of discussion groups, both moderated and unmoderated. News originated as a service of USENET (Users' network), a global cooperative network of participating computers. News is now distributed to most Internet sites, including Penn. The news system allows each user to access articles from a single server at his or her site, thus avoiding the cost of storing redundant copies of articles. Users can post articles for distribution at their local site, within their region, or worldwide. News groups exist for literally thousands of topics.
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.
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.
an interesting read with a good mix of topics
Net shorthand for Usenet News, a huge network of discussion groups.
Software that allows the posting and reading of "articles" to and from a central area under a specific topic, just like placing and reading ads in a newspaper. The articles are read with a news reader (such as rn ), and maintained with a news server (such as NNTP ). The overall, shared Internet newsgroups and the system that maintains and updates them is referred to as Usenet . General Usenet newsgroups are shared and updated between Internet sites.
a type of Knowledge Object submitted to the News gateway by a registered member or added and uploaded by the topic editor or chief editor.
Generic term for information transported on the Internet using the NNTP (Network News Transport Protocol). Often used to distinguish news from mail.
(or Usenet news): a collection of threaded discussion groups, organized by topic.
Another name for newsgroups. Also "Netnews," "USENET," or "Usenet."
Speakeasy uses this term to refer to Usenet service. Usenet is a collection of user-submitted notes or messages on various subjects that are posted to servers on a worldwide network. Each subject collection of posted notes is known as a newsgroup. There are thousands of newsgroups and it is possible for you to form a new one. Most newsgroups are hosted on Internet-connected servers, but they can also be hosted from servers that are not part of the Internet. Usenet's original protocol was UNIX-to-UNIX Copy (UUCP), but today the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) is used.
Usenet / newsgroup / netnews This method is used for the bulletin board kind of service originally called Usenet, but nowadays commonly referred to as Newsgroups. News runs on the NNTP protocol.
The generic name for the Usenet.
A type of Usenet newsgroup that contains discussions about newsgroups themselves, such as news.announce.newusers (announcements of interest to new users). Also used to refer to the Usenet itself.
Usenet groups of news. Newsrc Abbreviation used in a URL for Newsgroup
A term often used to denote USENET news, a popular forum for discussion on the Internet.
Another way of referring to servers that provide the NNTP service. News is a free-form discussion forum on a multitude of topics.
Synonymous with Usenet news, or sometimes just Usenet.