Usenet Newsgroups
What is Usenet?
Usenet is a computerized message system that spans the globe. Similar to a computerized bulletin board but much larger in scope, Usenet (also known as "netnews" or sometimes just "news") has thousands of discussion areas, known as newsgroups, about everything from computers to politics to recipes; thousands of articles are exchanged every day.
Newsgroups local to this area have su (Stanford University) and ba (Bay Area) at the beginning of their names. The su newsgroups are used by student, staff, and faculty organizations to exchange information and opinions about university-related matters.
Tools for Reading and Posting to Usenet Newsgroups
Windows and MacOS
You can download a free copy of Internet Explorer or Netscape Communicator from the Essential Stanford Software site; each of these browsers comes with a built-in newsgroup reader:
Unix
The following link provides information about Usenet at Stanford and instructions for using the newsreading tool "trn" on Unix workstations or via telnet to Leland Systems servers:
