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Definition of Newsgroups
1. newsgroup [n] - See also: newsgroup
Lexicographical Neighbors of Newsgroups
Literary usage of Newsgroups
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Inform Designer's Manual by Graham Nelson (2001)
"§46.4 newsgroups and revival 1992- The rest of the infrastructure of the present
interactive fiction community was created by four almost simultaneous ..."
2. Firewalls and Internet Security Conference, 1996: Proceedings edited by Peter Tippett (1998)
"newsgroups are similar in concept to the message boards that you find throughout
... The major difference is that - since these newsgroups are distributed ..."
3. An Educator's Guide to Evaluating the Use of Technology in Schools & Classrooms by Sherri Quinones, Rita Kirshstein (2000)
"V. newsgroups, gophers and telnet Level 1 I have no knowledge of newsgroups, gophers,
... Level 3 I read the newsgroups that interest me on a regular basis, ..."
4. Internet Indecency: Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and edited by John McCain (1998)
"Option 3) Email and newsgroups A significant amount of adult content is delivered
via unsolicited commercial email and is published in newsgroups. ..."
5. Gender and the Information Revolution in Africa by Eva-Maria Rathgeber, Edith Ofwona Adera (2000)
"newsgroups Subscribers to e-mail newsgroups can select types of news to meet their
... newsgroups can also provide a forum for disseminating ideas on ..."
6. Managing Small-Scale Fisheries: Alternative Directions and Methods by Fikret Berkes (2001)
"newsgroups are another means of electronic information exchange, ... Of the
thousands of newsgroups on nearly as many topics, a few are fisheries-related. ..."
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