[Usenet] One of {Usenet}'s huge collection of topic groups or {fora}.
Usenet groups can be unmoderated (anyone can post) or moderated
(submissions are automatically directed to a moderator, who edits or
filters and then posts the results). Some newsgroups have parallel
{mailing list}s for Internet people with no netnews access, with
postings to the group automatically propagated to the list and vice
versa. Some moderated groups (especially those which are actually
gatewayed Internet mailing lists) are distributed as digests, with
groups of postings periodically collected into a single large posting
with an index.
Among the best-known are comp.lang.c (the C-language forum),
comp.arch (on computer architectures), comp.unix.wizards (for Unix
wizards), rec.arts.sf.written and siblings (for science-fiction
fans), and talk.politics.misc (miscellaneous political discussions
and {flamage}).
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