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What is it ?

Newsgroups are articles (messages) based on a set of protocoles (cf. Usenet ) which allows to generate, stock and recover them. These articles can be exchanged with Internet users all over the world.

Newsgroups are classified in accordance with a system which allows to easily find the collection of articles whished. Computer Newsgroups mostly begin with comp.* followed by a hierarchy of names :

comp.sys.mac
comp.mail.sendmail
comp.lang.java.help
comp.lang.c++

The last few years collections of articles called "Binaries" appeared, which permit to send and collect images, softwares and videos. Binaries Newsgroups mostly begin with alt.binaries.* followed by a hierarchy of names :

alt.binaries.cartoons
alt.binaries.cd.image.linux
...

These collection of articles are available on Newsgroups servers managed by Newsgroups providers.

Newsgroups operate in broadcasting. A sending message (post) will be broadcast towards all Newsgroups
servers in the world. Moreover, posts are sent for a limited length of time, it depends on Newsgroups providers.

In order to read and send posts in Newsgroups, you need a Newsgroups software available for simple posts or binaries.

For an easy search in Newsgroups (without searching in all collections of articles), Web sites exist which list the contents of English-speaking Newsgroups : Indexers.