Guest guest Posted June 19, 2001 Report Share Posted June 19, 2001 > Mine happened on a newsgroup (rec.crafts.textiles.needlework) Sorry to be such an internet novice but what are newsgroups?? TIA Jenni. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 20, 2001 Report Share Posted June 20, 2001 > > Mine happened on a newsgroup (rec.crafts.textiles.needlework) > > Sorry to be such an internet novice but what are newsgroups?? > > TIA > > Jenni. news groups are pretty similar to this really, but using a specific protocol rather than email (a protocol is like a language that your computer needs to speak in order to be able to use a particular service eg email uses Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and browsing uses HyperText Transfer Protocl (HTTP). News uses Network News Transfer Protocol NNTP). Outlook Express includes a news reader client and there are plenty of free or shareware ones out there. You can have a look at them on http://groups.google.com/ They are classified into hierachies. Have a look at this first http://groups.google.com/googlegroups/basics.html You can find out more here: http://www.dsv.su.se/~jpalme/e-mail-book/usenet-news.html or here http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,289893,sid9_gci212663,00.htm l hth james Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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