How do PenTeleData newsgroups work?
Using a piece of software called a “newsreader,” a user connects to the PenTeleData Usenet server and can then download a list of available posts (which are called “headers”) within newsgroups of interest. The posts themselves can contain text messages and/or binary files which your newsreader software will decode after the post is downloaded. Once you have found newsgroups which are of particular interest to you, you can use your newsreader software to “subscribe” to them. Subscribing allows you to quickly be able to access the newsgroups that interest you most instead of having to wade through the many thousands of available groups each time. Any time you want to see the most recent postings in your subscribed groups, simply retrieve the new headers for those groups.
