articles based on the threads to which they belong. This helps simplify the
organization of articles in the newsgroup.
TIP
The free news server news.gmane.org makes the Red Hat and Ubuntu
mail lists available via newsgroups. The beta list is available as
gmane.linux.redhat.rhl.beta. It is a handy way to read threaded
discussions, and some prefer using it to using the Ubuntu mail list archives.The protocol used to transfer newsgroup articles from one host to another is
Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP), defined in RFC 3977
(https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3977). NNTP was designed as a simple
client/server protocol that enables two hosts to exchange newsgroup articles
in an efficient manner.
Whether or not your Ubuntu machine is set up as a news server, you can use a
newsreader program to read newsgroup articles. A newsreader program
requires just a connection to a news server. It does not matter whether the
news server is on the same machine or is a remote news server on the other
side of the world.
Several programs are available to connect to news servers to read and post
articles in newsgroups. If you are interested in Usenet, you might want to
check out a program from the Ubuntu repositories called Pan. Pan is a
graphical newsreader client that can download and display all the newsgroups
available on a server and display posted news articles.
References
http://www.mozilla.com—The home page for Mozilla Firefox and
Thunderbird
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet—A history of Usenet