netnews

English

Etymology

From net +‎ news.

Noun

netnews (uncountable)

1. (Internet) Electronic messages distributed by means of newsgroups, such as on Usenet.
   • 1995, Mark Harrison, The Usenet handbook: a user's guide to Netnews:

     Usenet software has gotten much better over time to cope with the ever increasing aggregate flow of netnews […]

   • 2003, Mark G. Sobell, A Practical Guide to Red Hat Linux 8, page 399:

     In the UNIX tradition categories of netnews groups are structured hierarchically.

Anagrams

• newsnet