newsgroup

plural newsgroups

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

   Some of the users are 'old timers'; they have been around in the newsgroup for several years[…]

   2003, Sven Junghagen, Henrik C. J. Linderoth, Intelligent Management in the Knowledge Economy

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   “Most of it’s garbage and we’re not even bothering to translate it. There’s also a substantial amount of material downloaded from the alt.anarchy and alt.chaos.communist Internet newsgroups. Interesting reading but not exactly pertinent,” Brognola said.

   1998 November, Tim Somheil, chapter 6, in Hostile Proximity (The Executioner; 239), Toronto, Ont.: Worldwide Library, →ISBN, page 75

   Synonyms: froup, newsfroup, Usegroup