NEWS GROUP

News groups are one of the many facilities available on the Internet . Like most of the internet, News groups are run voluntarily & co-operatively by people like you & me. A News group is centred on a discussion topic an example being rec.sport.soccer. Within these News groups several discussions or Threads take place on themes within the discussion topic. A news group devoted to the great rock guitarists may have a thread on who is the best guitarist out of Clapton, Beck & Page for instance. If you are having a problem getting something specific to work in a spreadsheet there will definitely be a news group to which you can pose your problem & it won't take long to get many responses. Unfortunately news groups appear to be the vehicle for a majority of the more undesirable topics that pollute the internet. If you see a particular News group of interest you can "subscribe" to it. Once this has been done you "post" your article & eventually it can be seen by anyone else who subscribes to the particular news group.