newsgroup

/ˈnuzˌɡɹup/

Etymology

From news + group.

noun

  1. A repository on a computer network where people can post messages, usually about a single subject.““Most of it’s garbage and we’re not even bothering to translate it. There’s also a substantial amount of material downloaded from the alt.anarchy and alt.chaos.communist Internet newsgroups. Interesting reading but not exactly pertinent,” Brognola said.”