Follow the instructions on the screen. You will be asked to choose your browser, ensure that Netscape Navigator is selected. By using your ntlworld CD to setup and install your software all of the software will be ready for you to use, therefore this section will not be needed. A newsgroup is a discussion about a particular subject consisting of notes written to a central Internet site and redistributed through Usenet, a world-wide network of news discussion groups. Newsgroups are organised 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.
Users can post to existing newsgroups and respond to previous posts.
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