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Etymology edit

From net +‎ news.

Noun edit

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.

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