MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions - an international standard for the exchange of text and binary files in Internet messages. It is presented in Internet Standard RFC-1341 by Nathaniel Borenstein and Ned Freed, June 1992. Newsgroup A collection of articles on a given topic. When you write an article, you specify to which group or groups it should be sent. Each newsgroup has a hierarchical name which suggests the topic of that group.
Names consist of several words separated by periods.
For instance, the newsgroups sci.chem and sci.math are scientifically-oriented groups which are dedicated to chemistry and mathematics, respectively. The person or person's responsible for running the news feed at each site. They define the type of newsgroups received by each site and determine whether news from particular newsgroups is transmitted to other sites. Based on local system resources, your news manager also determines how many days of news traffic can be kept for each newsgroup. Newsreader A computer program through which you interact with the Usenet News system.