One approach is by sending e-mail messages to the news organization that can be made available on the news web site. Unmoderated usenet newsgroups provide greater freedom for discussion, but unfortunately most news stories posted on the WWW do not have links to relevant usenet newsgroups. Another form of interactivity is chat. Text-based chat rooms can be found on some news web sites such as the Boston Globe 's. Audio chat rooms are also possible with software from companies such as Quarterdeck.
Avatars enable users to project a particular image to other users.
Some electronic news sources on the Internet are free, and other news sites are only partially available, requiring a fee for full access. The Nando Times has archives of news stories, and it uses photographs and advanced multimedia effects implemented with Java extensively. The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times have an online fee-based version of their newspapers. News items that match those keywords are then sent via e-mail to the user. One of the difficulties with keyword filtering is that the words in a keyword profile may not be the same as the words in a news web page.