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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
topic groups or <a href="../F/fora.html"><i class="glossterm">fora</i></a>. Usenet groups can be
<span class="firstterm">unmoderated</span> (anyone can post) or
<span class="firstterm">moderated</span> (submissions are
automatically directed to a moderator, who edits or filters and then posts
the results). Some newsgroups have parallel
<a href="../M/mailing-list.html"><i class="glossterm">mailing list</i></a>s for Internet people with no netnews access, with postings
to the group automatically propagated to the list and vice versa. Some
moderated groups (especially those which are actually gatewayed Internet
mailing lists) are distributed as <span class="firstterm">digests</span>, with groups of postings periodically
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),
<tt class="systemitem">comp.arch</tt> (on computer
architectures), <tt class="systemitem">comp.unix.wizards</tt>
(for Unix wizards), <tt class="systemitem">rec.arts.sf.written</tt> and siblings (for
science-fiction fans), and <tt class="systemitem">talk.politics.misc</tt> (miscellaneous political
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>