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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>newsgroup</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../N.html" title="N"/><link rel="previous" href="newsfroup.html" title="newsfroup"/><link rel="next" href="nick.html" title="nick"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">newsgroup</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="newsfroup.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">N</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="nick.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="newsgroup"/><dt xmlns="" id="newsgroup"><b>newsgroup</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Usenet] One of <a href="../U/Usenet.html"><i class="glossterm">Usenet</i></a>'s huge collection of
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topic groups or <a href="../F/fora.html"><i class="glossterm">fora</i></a>. Usenet groups can be
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<span class="firstterm">unmoderated</span> (anyone can post) or
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<span class="firstterm">moderated</span> (submissions are
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automatically directed to a moderator, who edits or filters and then posts
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the results). Some newsgroups have parallel
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<a href="../M/mailing-list.html"><i class="glossterm">mailing list</i></a>s for Internet people with no netnews access, with postings
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to the group automatically propagated to the list and vice versa. Some
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moderated groups (especially those which are actually gatewayed Internet
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mailing lists) are distributed as <span class="firstterm">digests</span>, with groups of postings periodically
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collected into a single large posting with an index.</p><p>Among the best-known are <tt class="systemitem">comp.lang.c</tt> (the C-language forum),
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<tt class="systemitem">comp.arch</tt> (on computer
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architectures), <tt class="systemitem">comp.unix.wizards</tt>
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(for Unix wizards), <tt class="systemitem">rec.arts.sf.written</tt> and siblings (for
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science-fiction fans), and <tt class="systemitem">talk.politics.misc</tt> (miscellaneous political
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discussions and <a href="../F/flamage.html"><i class="glossterm">flamage</i></a>).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="newsfroup.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="nick.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">newsfroup </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> nick</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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