The closing date for submissions is 31 October 2000. The term Usenet news is derived from Users network news. Newsgroups are arranged in a hierarchy. For example, the local newsgroup exeter.test is provided so that you can subscribe to a newsgroup and try to access existing contributions and submit your own messages. Before posting to a Usenet newsgroup it is recommended that you lurk for a while, reading other people s messages and learning about netiquette .
Some sites store Usenet news and make it available for reading and searching on the Web.
When the Exeter news server was upgraded earlier in the year it became possible to use Netscape Communicator to access Usenet news. The Netscape online help explains how to use newsgroups. Note that it is possible to alter some of the settings for newsgroups using the Netscape Preferences. The Exeter INN news server offers significant enhancements over the old server software for monitoring and tracking local article submissions, enabling much improved supervision of use of the resource both locally and globally. The announcement that online access via BIDS to the ISI Citation Indexes and Index to Scientific and Technical Proceedings is being withdrawn on 31 July has caused some confusion.