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netnews en · NOUN

Etymology

From net + news.

Meanings

  1. (Internet, uncountable) Electronic messages distributed by means of newsgroups, such as on Usenet.
    • 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:
    • 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: