The message was copied to its servers around the world and many others containing newsgroup messages.

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First stop, news:soc.culture.malaysia, a fiery newsgroup where stories are posted, views aired and debate unleashed.

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The service seemed to work much better with downloading newsgroup messages than it did Web sites.

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But when a report of the Pentium flaw made its way on to an early Internet newsgroup, users erupted.

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Each class has its own Internet newsgroup, which allows students to collaborate and post documents whether they are at school or at home.

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He found a newsgroup that was populated by amateur linguists from all over the world, who were excitedly conversing about new ways of conversing.

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He pointed to a recent case in California, where an employee was dismissed from his job because of his personal Web site and his postings to a fiction writers newsgroup.

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