Subscribing to groups As a user of News, you subscribe only to the groups in which you are interested. You tell your newsreader program which ones to subscribe to, and it keeps a record of these. You can join or leave groups at any time. Threads Articles in newsgroups are collected in threads. A new thread is started every time an article appears which has a new Subject line.
Some newsreaders are better than others at threading.
Damien Stevens Dell vs. Keeping up When you open a newsgroup, your newsreader program will normally only display articles which you have not previously seen. All the most frequently asked questions are collected here, together with the perfect answers. Many newsgroups also post their FAQs in the special group called news.answers. Certain major sites act as news feeds to other sites.