Creating a Link to Usenet News
Usenet is one of the best--or worst--resources on the Net, depending on whom you ask. Anybody with an opinion can tell you what he or she thinks. They may not know what they're talking about, but they'll let youknow their opinion. Usenet is the ultimate embodiment of the freedom of speech, letting everybody say anything they want.
The opportunity for anybody, anywhere on the Net to have a voice could be an asset to your home page. Often, you may want to put in a link to Usenet when you want people to read for more information. If your home page has some information about HTML authoring, for example, you might want readers to go to a particular newsgroup for more help. You can also include such a link so people can see what the differing opinions are. If you have a certain political view and want others to see what the opposition is, a Usenet news link would be helpful.Creating a link to a Usenet newsgroup is pretty simple; this kind of link is also just a derivative of the basic hypertext link. As you did with the e-mail link, you need to modify two parts in the anchor reference. When you're creating a Usenet link, enter news: instead of http:. Likewise, instead of specifying a particular URL, put in a specific newsgroup.
