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Newsgroups are like bulletin boards where you can post any messages on a given topic. There are many newsgroups. Most of foreign language or culture newsgroups are in the "soc.culture" section. Browsers like Netscape or Internet Explorer has a newsgroup reader built in, and you can access and read the newsgroups. If you are on AOL, CompuServe or something similar you may have an entirely different way of accessing newsgroups. Check with your on-line provider.
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Newsgroups are great interactive way to find answers to difficult answers. Newsgroups let you "post" global e-mail messages (which are readable to anyone that read the newsgroup). Hopefully, someone will respond to your question. If you know the answer to a question someone else has posted, you can share your knowledge with them. You get free advice and you can ... give free advice.
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Newsgroups had their beginnings in an academic environment in 1979, when a couple of Duke University graduate students connected some computers together to exchange information with the UNIX community. At the same time, another graduate student at the University of North Carolina wrote the first version of the software used to distribute news.
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Newsgroups, which are ... called Internet Discussion Groups, function like electronic world wide bulletin boards. In a newsgroup you can post or view messages or reply to someone else's. If you reply to a posting in a newsgroup, you can choose to either reply to the list (Re:List), or to the individual (Re:Mail), or both (Re:Both). There are thousands of newsgroups, and the trick is finding the pertinent ones for you. For starters go to Deja News, which searches the archives of the newsgroups. At Deja News you can do a word search and then view previous articles that contain that word.
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Newsgroups provide a mechanism whereby mail messages are systematically made available to large groups of people. In this case the mail message is said to be "posted" to the newsgroup. It is expected that a posted message will be replied to by other readers of the newsgroup, and those replies are usually ... posted to the newsgroup. Therefore, subscribers can participate in discussions that may go on for very long periods and range over many topics related to the subject matter of the newsgroup.
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While Newsgroups were not created with the intention of distributing binary files, they have proven to be quite effective for this. Due to the way they work, a file uploaded once will be spread and can then be downloaded by an unlimited number of users. More useful is the fact that every user is drawing on the bandwidth of their own news server. This means that unlike P2P technology, the user's download speed is under their own control, as opposed to under the willingness of other people to share files. In fact this is another benefit of Newsgroups: it is usually not expected that users share. If every user makes uploads then the servers would be flooded; ... it is acceptable and often encouraged for users to just leech.
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