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Newsgroups: USENet News Service
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Summary: Learn how UCSD employees and students can access Internet newsgroups via the UCSD USENet news service. |
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Internet newsgroups are, in general, discussion groups that differ from "chat rooms" in that they're not "real-time." Users "post" a message — a letter, an essay, a question — to the newsgroup. That message is then sent to thousands of different "news servers" — basically archives of posts — and kept there for days, weeks, or months, depending on how the news server is set up. Users can post replies to the original message if they want, or just read it along with other people's replies.
To use newsgroups, you need the name of your ISP's (Internet Service provider) newsgroups server and a newsgroups reader.
UCSD users typically access Internet newsgroups through the UCSD USENet news server. To use the UCSD news service, you will need to be connected to the Internet through the UCSD network via an on-campus Ethernet connection or the UCSD VPN.
If you connect to the Internet through a non-UCSD Internet Service Provider (ISP), contact your ISP's help desk in order to determine information on the news service provided by the ISP.
Find statistics and information about the UCSD news server at http://news.ucsd.edu.
To access and subscribe to newsgroups, refer to the following guides:
Need an expert? Contact ACT Help Desk, (858) 534-1853.
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