A newsgroup is a posted discussion group on Usenet, a worldwide network of newsgroups. Newsgroups are organized into subject hierarchies, with the first few letters of the newsgroup name indicating the major subject category and sub-categories represented by a subtopic name.
Many subjects have multiple levels of subtopics.
Users can post to existing newsgroups, respond to previous posts, and create new newsgroups. Repeat to add more groups. Once you have newsgroups displayed in the Folder List, you can use them just like mail folders. Then scroll down to the news.towson.edu section and read your subscribed news. If you have yet to subscribe to a group, click on the subscribe button to choose from the resources Towson has made available.