NEWS GROUPS
A news group
is a system of discussion group in the Internet which allows users to
discussion with people anywhere in the world on any subject. Newsgroups are
developed from e-mails. These consist of a number of linked users so that an article
posted on the group can be read by any member of the group. Also any member in
the group in the group can post article on the subject. Thousands of different
topics are available in the Internet, they are science, television programs,
hobbies, software, etc.
Major
subjects of news group are divided in to subtopics and so the name of the news
group usually consists of more than one part separated by dots. For example,
the news group ‘alt.arts.movies’ is an alternate news group developed for
movies.
News
group are divided in to moderated news group and unmoderated news group. A
moderated news group controls the content of every article received, before
broadcasting to members. This reduces the quantity of irrelevant articles, and
the quality of articles posted on the news group is maintained. In unmoderated
news groups, there is no control on the article posted to the group. Moderated
news groups have the word moderated at the end of the name.
The
area of interest of major news groups are,
Name Topics
ALT This
is alternative news group. It contains interesting articles.
COMP This refers to computer network group. It
contains articles related to computer.
MISC This is a Miscellaneous news group.
NEWS This newsgroup contains articles about
the newsgroup itself.
REC This is the forum for discussion of articles
relating to various recreational activities.
SCI This newsgroup is meant for science.
SOC This group for discussing topics related to
social science.
TALK This group deals with varied and wide
subjects.
Benefits of
newsgroups
- A fast connection to the internet is not a requirement
News
articles don’t fill up the e-mail inbox- Newsgroups can be searched by keyword
- Most news readers are designed to thread related articles .Threading means that the original article and its responses are kept together ,so that the entire discussion can be followed.
- The latest news can be read during at any time ,since the news server automatically deletes old article even if it is not read .