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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
newsgroup
noun
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▪ Finally, several newsgroups are aimed at helping new users get acquainted with Usenet.
▪ In cyberspace, newsgroups are the public bulletin-board areas where people talk about whatever interests them.
▪ Many of the most useful people in the Linux community can be found in newsgroups and mailing lists.
▪ Some people remember being able to read all new messages posted to Usenet newsgroups every day.
▪ The newsgroups also are struggling to absorb tens of thousand of new users who have discovered the Internet in recent years.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
newsgroup

by 1985, from news (n.) + group (n.).

Wiktionary
newsgroup

n. A repository on a computer network where people can post messages, usually about a single subject.

Usage examples of "newsgroup".

In order to determine this demand, and to ensure that we build what is really needed, we are creating a temporary newsgroup, Windsong Expansion Interest Group, moderated and archived at Windsong.

Sandor Arbitration Intelligence was one of the sharpest posters in this newsgroup.

God created the Advanced Research Projects Agency network, which was called ARPAnet, and the ARPAnet flourished and begat the Milnet, and the ARPAnet and the Milnet begat the Internet, and the Internet and its issue, Usenet newsgroups and the World Wide Web, became a trinity that changed the life of His people forever and ever.

Web he searched the Usenet - the collection of 80,000 newsgroups, in which people interested in a particular subject can post messages, pictures, programs, movies and sound clips.

Likewise, any silly message that you broadcast to a Usenet newsgroup is now being stored, for eternity or some approximation thereof, by a variety of commercial services.

Petrov in an Internet newsgroup devoted to crossborder health issues .

Two of those copies were wrapped in a digital envelope addressed to more than a hundred public distribution sites, from newsgroups like alt .

Over the last few weeks, some newsgroups have been full of tales of war and battle fleets, of billions dying in the clash of species.

Thousands and thousands of pages and newsgroups and discussion rooms.

Those who hang out in my SFFnet newsgroup and provide facts, ideas, and general support (in this case, a double dose of thanks to Cecil, Howard, Julia, Rachel, Tom, and Susan.

More often, it merely gives film scholars and fan[atic]s something to hash over during seminars and newsgroup exchanges.

Those assertions came from chronic theorizers, the sort of civilizations that get surcharged by newsgroup automation.

I'm on-line a lot, browsing through rare document dealers' Web sites and newsgroups.