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OCR: NewsWatcher 2.0 Usenet is organized as very large collection of separate "newsgroups" (or just groups for short) Each group is to a single topic. For example "the Palt.archery group devoted to discussing archery, "comp .sys. .mac. .apps' is devoted to talking about Mac application software, and so on Most sites offer somewhere between 4,000 and 10,000 different groups. The system administrators at each site decide which groups are available at that site Groups are named by words separated by periods The first in the group name identifies the broad category of topic For example, the "comp groups are for computer topics, the rec groups are for recreational topics, the sci" groups are for scientific topics the soc groups are for social topics, and so on The alt' groups are free- for-all colle ...