Meanings
- InternetuncountableHosting of a newsgroup.
If you are looking for newshosting and newsfeeds please see [link]
1998 October 31, Norman Gillaspie, “Newshosting and newsfeeds available”, in biz.pagesat (Usenet), archived from the original on 09 Dec 20252 more examples
Within the past two weeks, NETZILLA.NET has lost their news-peering, newshosting arrangemenet^([sic]) with three sites, JERSEY.NET, HOM.NET [MID-GA.COM] and this past Friday, with NI.NET. This is due to the Usenet spamming from and for the site, and the the^([sic]) forgery and fraud which is exhibited net-block wide.
1997 September 9, David Ritz, “[usenet] (UU444893) EMP/ECP/Forgery/Fraud (NETZILLA) BI = 18951.030 Mon Sep 8”, in news.admin.net-abuse.sightings (Usenet), archived from the original on 09 Dec 2025Out of interest, what good does the 'Xref' header do Demon ? I wondered why they bothered adding it. It doesn't seem to be a standard used by any common newshosting software.
1998 January 26, Simon Slavin, “What good does the 'Xref' header do Demon ?”, in demon.ip.support (Usenet), archived from the original on 09 Dec 2025
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newshosting. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/newshosting
“newshosting.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/newshosting. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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