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News

The news scheme allows USENET news groups or articles to be specified. It differs from the other schemes in that no host is specified in the URL; your news host is usually specified directly to the browser by an environment variable or some other means.

The syntax for newsgroups is:

    news:newsgroup

and for individual articles:

    news:article-id

Examples of actual news URLS are:

    news:comp.infosystems.www.providers

    news:[email protected]

Spinning the Web by Andrew Ford
© 1995 International Thomson Publishing
© 2002 Andrew Ford and Ford & Mason Ltd
Note: this HTML document was generated in December 1994 directly from the LaTeX source files using LaTeX2HTML. It was formatted into our standard page layout using the Template Toolkit. The document is mainly of historical interest as obviously many of the sites mentioned have long since disappeared.