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Also known as: subscribing
A newsreader's record that a group should be displayed and tracked, held locally in .newsrc or an equivalent database. Nothing is registered on the server, so subscribing costs nothing and the provider never sees it. The same word also names a paid account with a Usenet provider, which is a wholly separate thing: access to a server rather than interest in a particular group.
Browse all terms in Core Usenet Concepts, or see the full Usenet glossary.