I think most of you have experience in posting news in newsgroup and reading news from them in the Internet. However, do you know who is the pioneer who make the first news reader in the Internet? What is hypernews? What is UUCP, NNTP, NOV, rn, nn... ? How to solve the problems you face in using the news reading software? If you want answers to the above questions, you would better explore this newsgroup.
The newsgroup I introduce to you is located news.software.*. It is a site for all people who are interested in or have questions in using news reading software. They post their questions, comment and opinion here and receive feedbacks. Besides these, there they have the history of most of the news reading software: UUCP, NNTP, INN, NOV, rn, nn, tin, pine, netscape, etc. Courses of using some news reader are also included. You can know more about the development of these software and the growth of news in the Internet.
For example, in this newsgroup, you can find a detail course teaching you to get started with News and the nn news reader. It may be a great treasure to one who want to try this software.
You can also find a passage that talks about hypernews - a new Internet tool for finding and posting public message. Moreover, answers to many frequently asked questions (FAQs) to INN, NNTP, XMIT, nn, etc. are posted there. It really helps many people as I saw in the newsgroup - many questions from users are answered.
To conclude, the content of the newsgroup is quite technical but it will be interesting if you are interested in it.In my opinion, the history and introduction of Internet news and the software are worthy to have a look and it widens your horizon in the Internet news world.I hope you would like this newsgroup and find it useful, too.
