newsserver

English

Etymology

From news +‎ server.

Noun

newsserver (plural newsservers)

1. (Internet) A server for newsgroups.
   • 1987 June 7, s...@pixar.uucp, “patches to psterm and libcps”, in comp.windows.news‎^[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 9 December 2025:

     Support host names on the right hand side of the ';' in the NEWSSERVER environment variable. If you have NEWSSERVER set to ';foo', then the network address of ``foo will be looked up, and the /etc/services file will be consulted for a ``NeWS service.

   • 1988 April 20, Rich Salz, “v14i056: VN NNTP conversion kit”, in comp.sources.unix‎^[2] (Usenet), archived from the original on 9 December 2025:

     Basically, local newsgroups were setup on a different machine than our USENET gateway, and one has to talk to the rtech newsserver to get USENET, or one of 2 other machines to get different sets of local newsgroups.

   • 2004 January 24, Supafly, “Why is Agent 1.93 slow in getting Bodies from files?”, in alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent‎^[3] (Usenet), archived from the original on 9 December 2025:

     My maximum speed is 200 kb/s when I download over the internet. My newsserver is Newshosting.

   • 2013 August 9, X. X. Sputnik, “Test for your newsserver.”, in alt.free.newsservers‎^[4] (Usenet), archived from the original on 9 December 2025:

     If alt.os.linux.fedora is added, your newsserver isn't perfect but still, well, Okay.

See also

• newshost