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News Protocol

Opens a newsgroup in the client's default news application.

Syntax

news:sNewsGroup

Possible Values

sNewsGroup Required. Specifies the full address to a news group.

Remarks

Available as of Microsoft® Internet Explorer 3.0 or later.

Example

The following sample demonstrates the use of the News protocol. 

<A HREF="news:comp.databases.ms-sqlserver">
Discussions about Microsoft's SQL Server
</A>

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