Individual computing sites appoint somebody to oversee the huge quantity of incoming messages, and to decide how long messages can be kept before they must be removed to make room for new ones. Typically, messages are stored for less than a week. They are made available via a news server. Back up to menu Access Usenet newsgroups can be read at thousands of sites around the world.
Users access local newsgroups with a newsreader program.
Some WWW browsers come with an inbuilt newsreader or you may use a dedicated newsreader program. If you don't have access locally to News, there is also a changeable list of publicly accessible Usenet hosts. If you don't know whether your site has Usenet access, check with your local computer support people. Every Usenet message belongs to a newsgroup - there are a few thousand of these, each containing messages on a particular subject. Users sending Usenet messages must address each message to a particular newsgroup.