Chapter 13. How Newsgroups Work
Usenet, the world’s biggest electronic discussion forum, provides a way for messages to be sent among computers across the entire Internet. People from all over the world participate in discussions on thousands of topics in specific areas of interest called newsgroups.
Hundreds of different major hierarchies of newsgroups exist, such as recreation (identified by the letters “rec”) and computers (identified by the letters “comp”). Within these major hierarchies are subcategories (such as rec.arts) and further subcategories (such as rec. arts .books). Individual newsgroups can cover anything from movies to ...
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