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newsgroup
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n. [Usenet] One of Usenet 's huge collection of topic groups or fora. Usenet
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groups can be unmoderated (anyone can post) or moderated (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 mailing list s for Internet
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people with no netnews access, with postings to the group automatically
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propagated to the list and vice versa. Some moderated groups (especially
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those which are actually gatewayed Internet mailing lists) are distributed
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as digests , with groups of postings periodically collected into a single
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large posting with an index. Among the best-known are comp.lang.c (the
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C-language forum), comp.arch (on computer architectures), comp.unix.wizards
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(for Unix wizards), rec.arts.sf.written and siblings (for science-fiction
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fans), and talk.politics.misc (miscellaneous political discussions and
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flamage ).
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