Sams Teach Yourself Windows XP All in One, Second Edition

Chapter 32. Participating in Newsgroups, Web Message Boards, and Blogs

Now that you’ve gotten started with email and chat, it’s time to look at a couple of other ways of communicating: newsgroups, web-based message boards, and web logs (called blogs). These features share aspects of emailing and chatting, but they work in different ways by handling a larger volume of messages, sorted by topic.

Getting Started with Newsgroups

When you know how to use an email program, you know 90% of what you need to know to use newsgroups. Reading a message, composing a new message, and replying are all very similar in an email program and a newsreader.

Where a newsreader differs is that it retrieves messages from and posts (sends) messages to Internet newsgroups, ...