The articles in a news group are usually listed by subject, date, and author, you can control how articles are sorted with the View menu. Sometimes several people will follow-up the same article. An article and its follow-ups are called a thread . Forward lets you forward an e-mail copy of an article to someone else. The Print and Stop buttons let you print any article and stop the transfer of items that take too long.
News articles are very much like e-mail messages.
FAQs, Archives and Manners One of the things that happens in news groups is that people ask the same questions over and over again, a minor annoyance if you are a regular subscriber, so group administrators collect F requently A sked Q uestions and their answers. Be patient, it can a day or two for your article to get threaded and posted around the world. If you subscribe to a listserv you get your news through e-mail, if you subscribe to a news group you get your news through a newsreader.