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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