27 What is news?
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This article is from the Amiga Networking FAQ, by Richard Norman with numerous contributions by others.
27 What is news?
NEWS is a global BBS run by everyone and no one. I will describe it briefly here, but see the NEWS FAQ for details.
NEWS is made up of broad topics called news groups, to which people can post or respond to posts. Anyone can create a new post, but new news groups are added based on an email voting system. A few groups are moderated, but most are not. NEWS is available via usenet, the internet, and some commercial services. Almost NOBODY carries ALL the news groups. User access is through a news reader application that accesses a news server. There are many variations of news readers. Several for the Amiga can be found on Aminet and Fred Fish .
GRn by Michael Smith is one Amiga News reader.
Arn by Roland Bless (rob@spirits.ka.sub.org) is another.
THOR and Offline-Orbit are offline news and message readers.
NEWS began life on a college campus and then became the USENET news as it spread to other college campuses and beyond via UUCP . Today it is also carried across the Internet using the NNTP application over TCP/IP. The links between servers are set up manually by news server administrators and the links are called news feeds. A lot of the feeds come and go, since they are done on an informal basis.
GRn in combination with INetUtils allows you to access news over either NNTP or UUCP.
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