Topics are wide-ranging and include computers, culture, mathematics, philosophy, politics, sciences and recreational topics. Articles from readers around the world are contributed to newsgroups and form electronic conversations. Each newsgroup has a unique name, consisting of words or abbreviations strung together with periods. Topics and articles in alt. Others are local to a region or an institution.
Local categories restrict the propagation of articles to the region or institution.
For example, the UofR receives newsgroups in the ca. Size of Netnews Netnews is growing explosively. There may be as many as 39,000 Netnews sites and 8.5 million users world-wide. Recent measurements of Netnews traffic for a two-week period show 200,000 articles incoming per day over 6300 active newsgroups. These and other Netnews statistics are posted in the newsgroup news.lists.