Newsgroups

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Directories/FAQs of newsgroups:

• NewsReaders.com group/FAQ search page
• Liszt's Usenet Newsgroups Directory
• tile.net
• Dolist.nets's list in English or French
• FAQs.org FAQs by newsgroup (FAQs.org FAQs about Usenet list)

FAQ (Info/Resources for FAQ maintainers):

• The FAQ Autoposting Server lets you easily perform FAQ-Server@rtfm.mit.edu maintenance operations
• auto-faq FAQ Management and Posting Package by Ian Kluft and Paul W. Schleck "was made to help posting Frequently-Asked Questions (FAQ) articles to UseNet newsgroups. It also helps with cross-posting FAQs to the *.answers newsgroups, if the FAQ author chooses to do so, by complying with all the formatting requirements automatically."
• FAQ Maintenance Aids

Charters:

• NewsDemon's list of charters
• big eight hierarchies
• alt.*
• other hierarchies

Info:

• creating newsgroups
  
• moderated groups: info/tools

Hierarchies:

• Alt.Binary
• Regional hierarchies
• Private hierarchies
• FAQs.org list
• master list of hierarchies
• "official" list of newsgroups (isc.org)
• news-admin.org has been set up by news hierarchy maintainers (that is, the persons responsible for managing one or more of the top-level newsgroup hierarchies) for use by other maintainers and by users of USENET.
• Big Eight:
  • comp. (computers!)
  • humanities. (tiny number of groups)
  • misc. (truly misc)
  • news. (internet/usenet)
  • rec. (recreational/sports/hobbies/tv/etc)
  • sci. (science)
  • soc. (social/socialogical)
  • talk. (politics/religion)
• Alt.*: (just about any group)
  • Alt.* FAQ

Other specialized newsfeeds: (subscription newsfeeds)

• bit. "Bit newsgroups are different than other newsgroups in that they all have a mailing list associated with the newsgroup. Depending on the preferences of the newsgroup creator, the messages on a mailing list can be sent to the bit newsgroup, messages in the bit newsgroup can be sent to the mailing list or both." Existing mailing lists can apply to have a bit. group added, or you can apply to start a new bit. group
• Clari.net from Clari Communications Corporation provides news (i.e. current events!) via web or as a news (nntp) feed to institutions, corporations, and ISPs. I.e., they don't supply a usenet feed, but supply a feed with clari. newsgroups. Individuals interested in receiving a Clari. feed should ask their provider to subscribe or check the list of ISPs that subscribe to Clari.
• news.gmane.org hosts GMANE (GNU Mail To News And Back Again) newsgroups. GMANE archives mailing lists as newsgroups and allows posts via nntp to be mirrored to the list.
• govnews.org (see also financenet.gov for gov.topic.admin.finance subgroups of govnews.org)
• Usenet II Site List has a list of news servers carrying Usenet II newsgroups.

Big Eight:

• comp. (computers!)
• humanities. (tiny number of groups)
• misc. (truly misc)
• news. (internet/usenet)
• rec. (recreational/sports/hobbies/tv/etc)
• sci. (science)
• soc. (social/socialogical)
• talk. (politics/religion)

Alt.*: (just about any group)

• Alt.* FAQ

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