Usenet is a system of discussion groups, with well over a million participants.
Topics range from computers, sciences and humanities, to backpacking, skiing and biking.
Millions of sites throughout the Internet exchange articles which are classified into categories know as newsgroups. In many of our undergraduate courses instructors use a course newsgroup to communicate with their students. Course newsgroups are named according to the number of the course. For example, the newsgroup for CPSC 415 is ubc.courses.cpsc.415 . Other important newsgroups that students should read are ubc.cs.undergrad , cs.gripe , cs.general , and ubc.club.csss .