Open ended debates New newsgroups in the main hierarchies are created after a periods of debate and voting. Not all computers that receive News receive or store all newsgroups. Individual binary newsgroups are available on request. In addition, Dalhousie stores local and regional newsgroups of local interest. The length of time articles are retained varies from one day to several weeks.
News is read using a news client program.
On the Internet Services Hosts , IS and IS2, the program tin is used to read news. This page was last modified Sunday, March 25, 2001.