netnews en · NOUN
Etymology
From net + news.
Meanings
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(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: