Division for Information Infrastructure Network News Service Network news service is UTK's implementation of Usenet, a worldwide network of computers that run the netnews software. Usenet is a public forum for the exchange of ideas in the form of news articles that are broadcast to member sites.
Net users can post articles, reply by email, or simply read news groups using the news programs.
The news messages are as diverse as the persons who send them. To bring some structure into this collection of users and their ideas, news articles are classified into news groups according to subject matter. A newsgroup can be thought of as a bulletin board or forum devoted to one topic. It is estimated that there are over 50,000 newsgroups. Our goals are to provide access to as many available news groups as possible, and to make local newsgroups Web-accessible.