remote computer that controls access to a newsgroup in a group of interconnected computers. Anyone interested in posting a message to or retrieving a message from a newsgroup first must connect with the news server.
a computer somewhere on the internet that carries newsgroups
a computer that stores all of the messages for the newsgroups that it carries
a computer which accepts and distributes news postings
a machine that receives, locally stores and delivers to clients the news articles posted worldwide to the various newsgroups
a server that mirrors newsgroups
A machine that contains a number of USENET newsgroups, discussion groups on countless subjects. You can connect to a News Server and read and post network news. News Server administrators decide which of the thousands of USENET newsgroups to carry. News Servers may only allow access to certain individuals. Online The state of being actively connected to a network. While online, you may exchange data and interactively communicate with other users or computers on the network. Packet A unit of data with attached headers containing addressing information. Packets are used to route information between computers through the Internet. For example, a packet might contain text from a document, a graphic, or the binary code for a program. All the information that flows through the Internet does so in the form of packets.
A remote computer that controls access to a Newsgroups in a group of interconnected computers.
Provides access to Usenet Groups, a collection of discussion groups on the internet. You can link html documents to these groups.
A computer that is used to hold the collections of articles that make up newsgroups, and to run the programs that pass any new articles posted to its newsgroups on to any other server that carries the same newsgroups.
A machine that provides a newsfeed. Not only do they provide Usenet access but they are the cause of much frustration as some multipart posts get eaten in between servers.
A computer that processes Usenet newsgroups. The news server collects articles posted to each newsgroup and stores them for users to read.
A computer that maintains newsgroups and articles. This is the computer you connect to in order to read Usenet newsgroups. Not to be confused with a Web Server which delivers web pages.
A computer that hosts the Usenet news groups.
An NNTP server or host machine.
Computer of an ISP that gathers USENET newsgroups.
A news server is the computer at an ISP that runs the necessary software that gathers and distributes newsgroup information to the ISP's subscribers. Your newsreader software, which runs on your PC in order to read and post messages, gets all its information from the news server.
The server portion to News software that allows the maintenance of a News repository of articles/postings.
Computer of your ISP that gathers USENET newsgroups. From this server you can download the newsgroups you're interested in.
News servers hold and route messages from Internet newsgroups. You can subscribe to newsgroups for reading and replying to messages. Contact your ISP for more information about using their news server.
A server that offers and provides paid-for access to news services. A business could, for example, pay its ISP to provide access from the server to one or more news services. These could be made available to users across the business’s intranet and/or be offered as a service to visitors at the company’s website.
Stores and manages the messages that are posted to various newsgroups.
A computer program operating on the Internet which is used to download articles from newsgroup networks on the Internet such as Usenet. Client programs (news readers) are used by students to connect with news server computers to read articles of interest. Allie needed to call the system administrator at her Internet Service Provider (ISP) in order to get the name, IP address, user name and password of their news server computer. She then configured her web browser using this information and soon she was reading Usenet articles in her areas of interest.
A networked computer dedicated to supporting network news. At OSU, the major server is called nntp.service.ohio-state.edu.
n. A computer or program that exchanges Internet newsgroups with newsreader clients and other servers. See also newsgroup, newsreader.
a server computer on the Internet that collects and distributes messages sent to newsgroups.
A computer that processes articles in Newsgroups and exchanges them with other News Servers across the Internet. It also serves articles to News Readers.
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A computer that controls access to a newsgroup.A users must make a connection with the news server in order to post or read messages from the newsgroup.
A machine that contains a number of USENET newsgroups. Also referred to a NNTP server.
A computer on the Internet that not only gets Usenet newsgroups but also lets you read them. Programs such as Free Agent, Trumpet, and Cello use a news server to get the articles for the newsgroups you request.
A news server is a set of computer software used to handle Usenet articles. A reader server provides an interface to read and post articles, generally with the assistance of a news client. A transit server exchanges articles with other servers.
