Newsgroups

Community Bulletin Boards

 
Definition:
  A worldwide bulletin board system that can be accessed through the Internet.  The Usenet contains thousands of forums, called newsgroups, that cover every imaginable interest group.  It is used daily by millions of users throughout the world.  More information is available at Wikipedia.

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    Giganews provides access to over 107,000 dynamic discussion groups including a full selection of alt.binaries.
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