News Groups

What are News Groups?

Newsgroups are an electronic discussion forum.  People can exchange information and participate in discussions on a wide variety of topics.  They often can even exchange pictures, music, documents and other electronic media through the newsgroup.

Newsgroups are most often organized into discussion groups based on topics.  Often the topics are then organized into sub folders or trees also know as hierarchies.  Newsgroups are often for trading sports information, jokes, scientific discussions, religion, school projects, business or almost anything else.

There are news groups in almost every language that are used worldwide.  Many sites provide FAQ’s or frequently asked questions that are posted.  Often, newsgroups provide a charter of the groups purpose and acceptable uses.  You should read this and make sure that you are in agreement prior to posting any information or joining.

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Does GateHouse Networks provide News Groups?  If not will they?  If so how soon may that be?

Currently GateHouse Networks does not provide News Groups.  The provisioning of News Groups is a product that is offered for free or for a fee at several sites on the Internet.  As a result, GHN would not be providing a value added service to the majority of our customers by adding news groups to our list of services.

Sites that offer News Groups:

  1. http://www.google.com
    1. Got to the groups tab on the home page to see the news groups that can be accessed.
  2. http://www.tile.net/news
  3. http://www.ii.com/internet/messaging/newsgroups/
    1. This site lists many news groups that can be accessed.
  4. http://www.bauser.com/news.groups.reviews/
    1. The site offers reviews of news groups between 1994 and 1999.
  5. http://www.faqs.org
    1. Choose the News group tab on this page and it will provide frequently asked questions (FAQs) regarding newsgroups.
    2. The site as a whole offers FAQs regarding the Internet.
  6. http://groups.yahoo.com/
    1. Yahoo allows you to start a group of your own.
  7. http://www.15seconds.com/newsgroups/default.htm
  8. http://www.craftsfaironline.com/News.html
  9. http://newsone.net/
  10. http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp
  11. http://www.pharmacy.org/news.html
    1. Site offering links to pharmacy newsgroups.
  12. http://www.squeakycleannews.com
  13. http://www.virtualfreesites.com/search.news.html
    1. Site indicates links to 1000’s of newsgroups.
  14. http://www.up.net/newsgroups.html
  15. http://www.reviewjournal.com/
    1. Go to the eForums tab to access their newsgroups.  This is a Las Vegas site.
  16. http://www.newsville.com

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