Newsgroups in a sentence

Newsgroups vary in popularity; some newsgroups receive under a dozen posts per year while the most popular can get several thousand in under an hour.

Some admins keep posts in local or technical newsgroups around longer than posts in other newsgroups.

All of the articles in all of the newsgroups were stored in files on the local disk (known as the "news spool"), and rn could simply read those files directly when presenting them to the user.

As early as 1992, the band was sending news updates to their fans via Usenet newsgroups.

As the volume of FidoNet Mail increased and newsgroups from the early days of the Internet became available, satellite data downstream services became viable for larger systems.

At that time there was a great controversy over what newsgroups should be allowed.

Because newsgroups are widely distributed, a file uploaded once will be spread to many other servers and can then be downloaded by an unlimited number of users.

Binary While newsgroups were not created with the intention of distributing files such as pictures, sound and video, they have proven to be quite effective for this.

For newsgroups that are not widely carried, sometimes a carrier group is used for crossposting to aid distribution.

In fact, this is another benefit of newsgroups: it is usually not expected that users share.

It may be surprising to some that back in 1991, I did not yet know enough about Usenet newsgroups to realize that a "US only" tag was merely an advisory tag that had little real effect on how Usenet propagated newsgroup postings.

Major NSPs have a retention time of more than 7 years. citation A number of websites exist to keep an index of files posted to binary newsgroups.

Messages that were crossposted to too many newsgroups at once – as opposed to those that were posted too frequently – were called velveeta (after a cheese product).

Moderated newsgroups A moderated newsgroup has one or more individuals who must approve posts before they are published.

Newsgroup and forum main Newsgroup spam is a type of spam where the targets are Usenet newsgroups.

Newsreader software is used to read newsgroups.

Others expanded the term to include the practice of playing a seriously misinformed or deluded user, even in newsgroups where one was not a regular; these were often attempts at humor rather than provocation.

Spamming of Usenet newsgroups actually pre-dates e-mail spam.

The administrators of these servers gained sufficient influence in the otherwise anarchic Usenet community to be able to push through controversial changes, for instance the Great Renaming of Usenet newsgroups during 1987.

There are two main issues that pose problems for transmitting large files over newsgroups.