1. XP New Perspectives on The Internet, Fifth Edition— Comprehensive, 2005 Update Tutorial 7 1 Mass Communication on the Internet Using Newsgroups Tutorial 7

2. XP New Perspectives on The Internet, Fifth Edition— Comprehensive, 2005 Update Tutorial 7 2 Objectives Learn about Usenet newsgroups and structure. Subscribe and unsubscribe to a newsgroup. Learn how to reply to and post articles to Usenet newsgroups.

3. XP New Perspectives on The Internet, Fifth Edition— Comprehensive, 2005 Update Tutorial 7 3 What are Usenet Newsgroups? Usenet News Service (Usenet)  another information resource on the Internet.  way of collecting information and storing that information by topic category. Topic categories  called Newsgroups or Forums.  New term - Internet Discussion Group.

4. XP New Perspectives on The Internet, Fifth Edition— Comprehensive, 2005 Update Tutorial 7 4 How Newsgroups Work? Similar to Mailing Lists  accept messages from users and makes them available to other users. Newsgroup stores articles (postings) on a news server. Users interested in a particular topic connect to the newsgroup and read the newsgroups articles.

5. XP New Perspectives on The Internet, Fifth Edition— Comprehensive, 2005 Update Tutorial 7 5 Usenet Structure Each news server obtains newsfeeds to maintain currency. Most newsfeeds occur over the Internet using the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP). Organizations that operate news servers include most ISPs, universities, large businesses, government units, and other entities connected to the Internet.

6. XP New Perspectives on The Internet, Fifth Edition— Comprehensive, 2005 Update Tutorial 7 6 Usenet Hierarchies Newsgroups are organized into topical hierarchies  each newsgroup has a unique name  shows its position and classification in the hierarchy.

7. XP New Perspectives on The Internet, Fifth Edition— Comprehensive, 2005 Update Tutorial 7 7 Usenet Newsgroups Original Usenet news service top-level categories

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9. XP New Perspectives on The Internet, Fifth Edition— Comprehensive, 2005 Update Tutorial 7 9 Web Access to Newsgroups Tile.net  maintains a comprehensive list of Usenet newsgroups.

10. XP New Perspectives on The Internet, Fifth Edition— Comprehensive, 2005 Update Tutorial 7 10 Web Access to Newsgroups The Google Groups  directory that offers many useful tools for accessing Usenet newsgroups.  has a search engine that allows you to query its newsgroup article database.

11. Web Access to Newsgroups New Perspectives on The Internet, Sixth Edition— Comprehensive Tutorial 7 11 Google Groups home page

12. XP New Perspectives on The Internet, Fifth Edition— Comprehensive, 2005 Update Tutorial 7 12 Web Access to Newsgroups Using a Newsreader  programs designed for the sole purpose of communicating with news server computers. Most e-mail programs include newsreader features.