<tt>NetNews</tt> terminology



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NetNews terminology

  1. category: top level name of the organisational structure of newsgroups.
  2. newsgroup: is a special interest group.
  3. article: is a post to a specific newsgroup.
  4. thread: a set of articles with the same subject.
  5. newsfeed: workstation used to propagate the news to newsservers.
  6. newsserver: a workstation storing news articles.
  7. newsreader: a program used to read the NetNews off the newsserver.



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Fri Feb 17 15:55:40 EST 1995