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From news +‎ group.

newsgroup (plural newsgroups)

  1. A repository on a computer network where people can post messages, usually about a single subject.
    • 2003, Sven Junghagen, Henrik C. J. Linderoth, Intelligent Management in the Knowledge Economy:

      Some of the users are 'old timers'; they have been around in the newsgroup for several years []

repository for posting messages on a computer network