| 释义 |
newsgroup, n. Computing.
Brit. |ˈnjuːzgruːp|, U.S. |ˈn(j)uzˌgrup|
[‹ news n. + group n.]
A forum on a network, esp. the Internet, for the discussion of a particular subject and the exchange of information about it; a group of Internet users who exchange e-mail messages on a topic of mutual interest.
1983M. R. Horton Request for Comments (Network Working Group) (Electronic text) No. 850. 8 This allows conversations within a newsgroup to be kept together, and potentially users might shut off entire conversations without unsubscribing to a newsgroup. 1983Byte Oct. 219/1 Usenet provides a set of programs (collectively called netnews) that allows messages to be posted in news groups, where user-defined topics are discussed. 1990L. Wall & R. L. Schwartz Programming Perl vii. 378 Since Perl is constantly being improved (and broken) Larry frequently posts patches to the Usenet newsgroup comp.lang.perl. 1994Time 25 July 53/4 The newsgroups are organized into hierarchies, such as science (sci), recreation (rec), society (soc) and the miscellaneous category called alternate (alt). 1998P. Ceruzzi Hist. Mod. Computing ix. 298 UNIX-based news groups appeared after 1979, somewhat independently of the mainstream ARPANET-Internet activities and under the general name of Usenet. |