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Newsgroups are collections of letters left on a virtual bulletin board. With Newsgroups, you can look at a collection postings and their replies. Most newsgroups are open or unmoderated (which means that no one monitors the activities).
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Newsgroups are listed in a hierarchy that goes back to the early 1980's. The different types of newsgroups are shown by a extension, an example of some of the different types of extensions and meanings are below (for Google newsgroups)
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You can use the links below to view the two methods of viewing newsgroups. These links open the AT&T Worldnet Service suggestions newsgroup. When you are done, close the newsgroup window or switch back to this window:
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Many other hierarchies of newsgroups are distributed alongside these. Regional and language-specific hierarchies such as japan.*, malta.* and ne.* serve specific regions such as Japan, Malta and New England. Companies such as Microsoft administer their own hierarchies to discuss their products and offer community technical support. Some users prefer to use the term "Usenet" to refer only to the Big Eight hierarchies; others include alt as well. The more general term "netnews" incorporates the entire medium, including private organizational news systems.
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All newsgroups prefixed with lbx. are for commentary on "remote notes" created within Libronix. Remote notes can be read and commented upon from within your news reader, but can only be created and appended to from within Libronix. When viewed from within Libronix, remote notes can contain text formatting and hyperlinksto Bible passages, making them a richer medium than newsgroup postings.
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Due to a recent increase in spam sent to posters in newsgroups, Microsoft advises that newsgroup participants* should consider avoiding posting to newsgroups using their real e-mail address. Microsoft is ... committed to continuing to address the issue of spam from a technological perspective.
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