Newsgroups

Newsgroups Newsgroups are a great way to communicate with a large group about various subjects.

• Newsgroup Browsers There are several browsers available with a very wide variety of features. Choose the one that's best for you.
• Newsgroups - Cancelbots When a newsgroup administrator wants to delete a spam or flame newsgroup posting, he will send out a cancelbot.
• Newsgroup Prefixes The names of the newsgroups explained
• Newsgroup Questions and Answers Here are the answers to questions that you might have about newsgroups
• Newsgroup Security It's important to protect yourself properly when posting to newsgroups or you could get burned.
• Messages are tracked when posted Reading from newsgroups is generally untraceable, but your posts to newsgroups can and are tracked.
• Newsgroups - Crossposting It's great to be a subscriber to many different newsgroups, but watch the multi-posts and crossposts.
• Newsgroups - Quoting It's a good idea to include a few lines of test from the message to which you are replying. It's not a good idea to include hundreds of lines. Trim it down and your readers will thank you.
• Newsgroups - Servers Okay, so where can you get access to newsgroups? Your ISP is a good place to start, and if that fails, try one of the paid services.
• Newsgroups - Replies Believe it or not, there is a right way to reply to a newsgroup and a wrong way.
• The Exchange 2000 Server If your company needs a way to communicate and you run IIS servers, perhaps you could just use Microsoft's news server.