Definition of "newsgroup" []

• An area on a computer network, especially the Internet, devoted to the discussion of a specified topic: read messages posted to newsgroups that discuss pet cats. (noun)

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• "The internal newsgroup is led by the ignorant flaming the desperate, few of them with real publications that qualify for the term "Professional Writer", as most of the real writers either realize that time spent arguing on the forum is time that should be spent writing, or have left the SFWA already."
• "Steve Pearl, the moderator of the online rec. arts.anime.misc newsgroup from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, has passed away over the weekend."
• "I stopped reading certain newsgroup at google because the language was foul and the ideas were crazy."