Newsgroups are online discussion groups that deal with a variety of topics. A common analogy used to describe newsgroups is “online bulletin boards.” All newsgroups were originally part of a worldwide ...

America Online on Tuesday confirmed that it will stop supporting access to newsgroups, a once-popular feature on the Internet that has since become overshadowed by message boards and blogs. The ...

So every now and then, I decide to check out something that is very mainstream, yet I have never experienced. Recently I had to use IRC, which i had never used before, then it was Instant Messaging.

Comcast has become the latest ISP to shut down access to Usenet newsgroups as part of a voluntary agreement to try and fight child porn online. Users of the ISP giant found themselves unable to access ...

Usenet newsgroups dedicated to piracy are seeing a resurgence in activity as file sharers seek less-policed areas of the internet to trade illegal data. Some pirated movies are now even appearing in ...

Microsoft is holding an online meeting on May 4 on the topic of Windows Community. I'm wondering whether there might be an agenda item on the company's decision to discontinue its NNTP newsgroups.

Excite@Home removed several newsgroups this week that it said fostered copyright infringement under federal law. The Internet service provider pulled a handful of newsgroups it said were related to ...

In a new series of lawsuits, Hollywood studios for the first time are targeting companies that provide access to Usenet newsgroups. This corner of the Internet, largely a leftover from the days before ...

A nice feature of newsgroups (see previous tip) is that anyone who posts a message must include an e-mail address. This makes Usenet a gold mine of sources. All you have to do is find someone you want ...

Verizon recently joined the likes of Comcast and Time Warner, becoming the latest Internet service provider to stop giving its customers access to newsgroups on Usenet, a decades-old collection of ...

You've just finished reading three certification books, taken two different practice exams, and spent countless hours configuring your test network-but you're still nervous about taking that Microsoft ...