What is Newsgroups?
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While chat is a way to communicate with people in real time (like a telephone conversation), Newsgroups allow you to Post messages (called a posting), respond to others' posts, and even download files they've left there for you, all when it's most convenient for you. If you've ever lived with a group of people, Newsgroups are kind of like that refrigerator door where everyone leaves notes, papers, newspaper clippings, and other items of interest for each other. Usenet has tens of thousands of newsgroups on every topic you can imagine. Several conversations, called threads, are usually going on at once in any group; participants take these discussions seriously and often respond to anything they see written ( posted ) to the group. Because you have time to think of what to write in a Newsgroup posting, the discussions in Newsgroups tend to be of a more serious, though not necessarily less amusing, nature. Many a community has grown from the Newsgroup world. |
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