news
Last revision July 20, 2004
Access a USENET newsgroup. The hostname field must specify a valid news server using the NNTP protocol, such as nntp.stanford.edu. The filepathname field is interpreted to be the name of the USENET news group that you want to access, such as comp.Unix.ultrix. Different browsers may behave differently when selecting a news type link. Netscape, for example, will download the subject lines of all the current messages in the group and provide you with an ordered index of links to each message, which you can then use to retrieve individual messages for viewing.