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netnews

netnews noun: electronic messages distributed by means of newsgroups, such as on Usenet.

Noun

netnews (uncountable)

  1. (Internet) Electronic messages distributed by means of newsgroups, such as on Usenet.
    • Usenet software has gotten much better over time to cope with the ever increasing aggregate flow of netnews[…]1995, Mark Harrison, The Usenet handbook: a user's guide to Netnews
    • In the UNIX tradition categories of netnews groups are structured hierarchically.2003, Mark G. Sobell, A Practical Guide to Red Hat Linux 8, page 399

Origin of netnews

From net + news.

Questions about netnews

What does netnews mean?
Netnews means electronic messages distributed by means of newsgroups, such as on Usenet.
What part of speech is netnews?
Netnews is a noun.

Words near netnews in the dictionary

  1. netminders
  2. netminding
  3. netminds
  4. netname
  5. netnames
  6. netnews
  7. netnographer
  8. netnographers
  9. netnographic
  10. netnographical
  11. netnographically

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