Once the connection is established, your newsreader downloads all of the new messages posted in the newsgroups that you are subscribed to.If your ISP does not have a news server, you can refer to a list of publicly accessible news servers. Typically, the news server's connection information is provided to you by your Internet Service Provider (ISP). Your newsreader, using NNTP, connects to the news server designated in your configuration.
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News server - A server that maintains an archive of the messages posted to a newsgroup or series of newsgroups.Flame - A criticism of someone else's post.Unmoderated - A newsgroup in which any message posted is immediately incorporated into the newsgroup (more common).Moderated - A newsgroup that has a person or persons who read all messages before they are posted to the general group and reserve the right to reject a message that they deem inappropriate for the newsgroup.Big Eight - Usenet's original eight newsgroup categories Now, there are thousands of newsgroups in hundreds of categories, but Usenet originally divided newsgroups into one of eight major categories: comp (computers) humanities (arts and culture) misc (miscellaneous) news (news and current events) rec (recreational) sci (science) soc (social) talk (general discussion) Ironically, alt (alternate), which is now the biggest general newsgroup category, was not part of the original eight.For example, is a newsgroup for Java programmers, in the Java section of the language category, which is part of the overall computer category. The name of the newsgroup provides the category information, going from general to specific (left to right). Hierarchies - Category information provided in the name of the newsgroup Newsgroups are categorized according to interest.Thread or Threaded discussion - A post and the series of messages replying to it.
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