From: spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
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Subject: Alternative Newsgroup Hierarchies, Part I
Summary: First of two postings.  This part describes the following
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Date: 26 Apr 1993 00:02:08 -0500
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Archive-name: alt-hierarchies/part1
Original-author: hoptoad!gnu (John Gilmore) and spaf@purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
Comment: enhanced & edited until 5/93 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
Last-change: 25 Apr 1993 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)


Introduction
------------
The Usenet software allows the support and transport of hierarchies of
newsgroups not part of the "traditional" Usenet through use of the
distribution mechanism. These hierarchies of groups are available to
sites wishing to support them and able to find a feed.	In general,
these groups are not carried by the entire network because of their
volume, restricted spheres of interest, or a different set of
administrative rules and concerns.

In general, it is a bad idea to forward these newsgroups to your
neighbors without asking them first; they should only be received at a
site by choice.  Not only is this generally-accepted net etiquette, it
helps to preserve the freedom to do and say as the posters please in
these newsgroups, as the only people who get them are those who asked
to get them.  This freedom is more restricted in the Usenet as a
whole, because every mainstream posting and every mainstream newsgroup
name must be acceptable to a much wider audience than is present in
these hierarchies.  Because of the sheer size of the mainstream
Usenet, extra-long or controversial postings are more likely to cause
problems when posted to the Usenet; however, these alternative
hierarchies exist precisely to support those kinds of postings (if
germane to the hierarchy).

Usually, there is is no restriction on getting these groups as long as
you have the capacity to receive, store, and forward the groups;
software after B 2.11 news is required to make the distribution
mechanism work properly for these groups.  How to join each
distribution is described below.

Note that the "uunet" service carries all of these hierarchies.
Contact uunet-request@uunet.uu.net for subscription details.

Also note -- the lists in this article are totally unofficial and
possibly incomplete or inaccurate.  I try to keep the lists up-to-date,
but make no guarantee that any of the information contained corresponds
with the named groups in any significant way.  Corrections and comments
should be mailed to the reply address in the header of this article.

Alt
---
"alt" is a collection of newsgroups that is being distributed by a
collection of sites that choose to carry the groups.  Many Usenet
sites do not receive these groups.  Here is a recent list of the 'alt"
newsgroups:

alt.1d		One-dimensional imaging, & the thinking behind it.
alt.2d		Two dimension imaging for plane thinkers.
alt.3d			Three-dimensional imaging.
alt.abortion.inequity	Sexism comes in many guises.
alt.abuse-recovery	Helping victims of abuse to recover. (Moderated)
alt.abuse.offender.recovery	??.
alt.activism		Activities for activists.
alt.activism.d		A place to discuss issues in alt.activism.
alt.adoption		For those involved with or contemplating adoption.
alt.aeffle.und.pferdle	German TV cartoon characters.
alt.agriculture.fruit	Hey, nice melons!.
alt.agriculture.misc	General discussions of agriculture, farming, etc.
alt.aldus.freehand	Discuss Aldus Freehand.
alt.aldus.misc		Discuss other Aldus products.
alt.aldus.pagemaker	Don't use expensive user support, come here instead.
alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk	simoN.
alt.alien.visitors	Space Aliens on Earth!	Abduction!  Gov't Coverup!
alt.alt 		Recursive fun.
alt.amateur-comp	The Amateur Computerist.
alt.american.automobile.breakdown.breakdown.breakdown	"...then the steering wheel came off in my hands".
alt.anarchism		%SYSTEM-F-ANARCHISM, the operating system is overthrown.
alt.angst		Anxiety in the modern world.
alt.angst.xibo.sex	Tightening the screws of your existence.
alt.answers		As if anyone on alt has the answers. (Moderated)
alt.anybody		You talking to me?
alt.appalachian 	Appalachian regional issues discussion.
alt.archery		Robin Hood had the right idea.
alt.architecture	Building design/construction and related topics.
alt.artcom		Artistic Community, arts & communication.
alt.astrology		Twinkle, twinkle, little planet.
alt.atheism		Godless heathens.
alt.atheism.moderated	Focused Godless heathens. (Moderated)
alt.authorware		Discussions on the use of the Authorware package.
alt.autos.antique	Discussion of all facets of older automobiles.
alt.autos.rod-n-custom	Discussion of souped-up or customised autos.
alt.bacchus		The non-profit "BACCHUS" organization.
alt.backrubs		Lower...to the right...aaaah!
alt.bad.clams		Bad clams sneak up behind you and pounce. Bad clams kill.
alt.baldspot		Discussions for the hairing impaired.
alt.basement.graveyard	Another side of the do-it-yourself movement.
alt.bbs 		See alt.self-reference.
alt.bbs.doors		Bulletin board system add-on executables, or "doors".
alt.bbs.internet	BBSs that are hooked up to the Internet.
alt.bbs.metal		The METAL telecomm environment.
alt.bbs.searchlight	Searchlight BBS system discussions.
alt.bbs.unixbbs 	Bulletin Board Systems under Uniclones.
alt.bbs.unixbbs.uniboard	Discussions about the Uniboard BBS.
alt.bbs.uupcb		??.
alt.beadworld		We will appease the bead gods.
alt.beer		Good for what ales ya.
alt.best.of.internet	Sort of an oxymoron.
alt.bigfoot		Dr. Scholl's gone native.
alt.binaries.multimedia Sound, text and graphics data rolled in one.
alt.binaries.pictures.d Discussions about picture postings.
alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	Gigabytes of copyright violations.
alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.d Discussing erotic copyright violations.
alt.binaries.pictures.fine-art.d	Discussion about huge image files. (Moderated)
alt.binaries.pictures.fractals	Cheaper just to send the program parameters.
alt.binaries.pictures.misc	Have we saturated the network yet?
alt.binaries.pictures.supermodels	Yet more copyright violations.
alt.binaries.pictures.tasteless "Eccchh, that last one was *sick*...".
alt.binaries.pictures.utilities Discussion of binary posting utilities.
alt.binaries.sounds.d	Sounding off.
alt.binaries.sounds.erotica	Ngghhh! MMMMMMM! uuuhhhnnnnnOOOOOHHHhhhhh...
alt.binaries.sounds.misc	Digitized audio adventures.
alt.birthright		Birthright Party propaganda.
alt.bitch.pork		Flames in a particular vein.
alt.bite.my.butt	One newsgroup under god, with tyranny & malice for all.
alt.bitterness		No matter what it's for, you know how it'll turn out.
alt.bizarre		Too wierd for the wierdos.
alt.blahblah		Iggy? is that you?
alt.bogus.group 	Nothing is too good for you, is it.
alt.bonsai		Zen and the art of little trees.
alt.books.anne-rice	Vampyres are us.
alt.books.deryni	Katherine Kurtz's books, especially the Deryni series.
alt.books.reviews	"If you want to know how it turns out, read it!".
alt.boomerang		Technology and use of the boomerang.
alt.boostagogo		??.
alt.brother-jed 	The born-again minister touring US campuses.
alt.buddha.short.fat.guy	Religion. And not religion. Both. Neither.
alt.business.multi-level	Multi-level (network) marketing businesses.
alt.business.multi-level.scam.scam.scam Hey, look! Mikey likes it!
alt.butt-keg.marmalade	Typical yanqui analytic humor.
alt.butt.harp		There's a group for *everything* in alt.*.
alt.buttered.scones	You bring the tea.
alt.cabal		Ah, the good ole days....
alt.cable-tv.re-regulate	This probably wouldn't fix the content problem.
alt.cad 		Computer Aided Design.
alt.cad.autocad 	CAD as practiced by customers of Autodesk.
alt.california		The state and the state of mind.
alt.callahans		Callahan's bar for puns and fellowship.
alt.cascade		Art or litter you decide.
alt.cd-rom		Discussions of optical storage media.
alt.censorship		Discussion about restricting speech/press.
alt.cereal		Breakfast cereals and their (m)ilk.
alt.cesium		Your life is ticking away in very precise increments...
alt.chess.bdg		The Blackmar-Diemer Gambit.
alt.chess.ics		The Internet Chess Server @valkyries.andrew.cmu.edu.
alt.child-support	Raising children in a split family.
alt.chinchilla		Chinchilla farming and cultivation.
alt.chinese.text	Postings in Chinese; Chinese language software.
alt.chinese.text.big5	Posting in Chinese[BIG 5].
alt.clubs.compsci	Often computer science is like being conked on the head.
alt.clueless		Duh.
alt.co-evolution	About the Whole Earth Review and associated lifestyles.
alt.co-ops		Discussion about co-operatives.
alt.cobol		Relationship between programming and stone axes.
alt.college.college-bowl	Discussions of the College Bowl competition.
alt.college.food	Dining halls, cafeterias, mystery meat, and more.
alt.colorguard		Marching bands etc.
alt.com 		??.
alt.comedy.british	British humour.
alt.comics.buffalo-roam A postscript comic strip.
alt.comics.lnh		Interactive net.madness in the superhero genre.
alt.comics.superman	No one knows it is also alt.clark.kent.
alt.comics.superman.dies.dies.dies	I wonder if we can get the Naked Guy to replace him.
alt.comp.acad-freedom.news	Academic freedom issues related to computers. (Moderated)
alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk	Academic freedom issues related to computers.
alt.conference-ctr	Conference center management issues.
alt.config		Alternative subnet discussions and connectivity.
alt.config.control-freaks	alt.config is for the other freaks.
alt.consciousness	Discussions on consciousness.
alt.conspiracy		Be paranoid -- they're out to get you.
alt.conspiracy.jfk	The Kennedy assassination.
alt.control-theory	Feedback & similar cybernosis.
alt.cosuard		Council of Sysops & Users Against Rate Discrimination.
alt.crackers		Best when read with alt.cheese.
alt.crackers.saltine	No chloresterol, either.
alt.craig.hulsey.rack.rack.rack A pool shark.
alt.cult-movies 	Movies with a cult following (e.g., Rocky Horror PS).
alt.culture.alaska	Is this where the ice weasels come from?
alt.culture.argentina	??.
alt.culture.austrian	They aren't the ones with kangaroos.
alt.culture.electric-midget	Waiting for the dwarf, or someone like him.
alt.culture.indonesia	Indonesian culture, news, etc.
alt.culture.karnataka	Culture and language of the Indian state of Karnataka.
alt.culture.kerala	People of Keralite origin and the malayalam language.
alt.culture.ny-upstate	They have more than snow and Lake Ontario.
alt.culture.oregon	Home of legal-discrimination advocates.
alt.culture.theory	Cultural theory & current practical problems.
alt.culture.tuva	Topics related to the Republic of Tannu Tuva.
alt.culture.us.asian-indian	Asian Indians in the US and Canada.
alt.culture.usenet	A self-referential oxymoron.
alt.current-events.somalia	Discussion of the situation in Somalia.
alt.current-events.wtc-explosion	The explosion in the World Trade Center.
alt.cyb-sys		Cybernetics and Systems.
alt.cyberpunk		High-tech low-life.
alt.cyberpunk.chatsubo	Literary virtual reality in a cyberpunk hangout.
alt.cyberpunk.movement	Cybernizing the Universe.
alt.cyberpunk.tech	Cyberspace and Cyberpunk technology.
alt.cyberspace		Cyberspace and how it should work.
alt.cybertoon		Cyberpunk epic.
alt.dads-rights 	Rights of fathers trying to win custody in court.
alt.dcom.telecom	Discussion of telecommunications technology.
alt.dear.whitehouse	When Hints from Heloise aren't enough.
alt.desert-shield.erotica	Happiness is a warm gun.
alt.desert-storm	The war against Iraq in Kuwait.
alt.desert-storm.facts	For factual information on The Gulf War.
alt.desert-thekurds	What's happening to the Kurds in Iraq.
alt.desert.storm.its.not.scud.its.al-hussein.dammit	So use another kind of missile.
alt.desert.toppings	I'll have just a little more crude oil on that, please.
alt.destroy.the.earth	Deteriorata meets the Space Orphans.
alt.deutsche.bundesbahn.kotz.kotz.kotz	Flaming the German rail system.
alt.dev.null		The ultimate in moderated newsgroups. (Moderated)
alt.devilbunnies	Probably better left undescribed.
alt.discordia		All hail Eris, etc.
alt.discrimination	Quotas, affirmative action, bigotry, persecution.
alt.divination		Divination techniques (e.g., I Ching, Tarot, runes).
alt.dragons-inn 	A computer fantasy environment (like Usenet is).
alt.dreams		What do they mean?
alt.drugs		Recreational pharmaceuticals and related flames.
alt.drugs.caffeine	All about the world's most-used stimulant drug.
alt.drugs.usenet	Many things are addictive besides pills.
alt.duke.basketball.sucks.sucks.sucks	Nothing to discuss, everybody knows.
alt.earth_summit	Another triumph for George Bush.
alt.education.bangkok.cmc	A distance-education project.
alt.education.bangkok.databases A distance-education project.
alt.education.bangkok.planning	A distance-education project.
alt.education.bangkok.research	A distance-education project.
alt.education.bangkok.student	A distance-education project.
alt.education.bangkok.theory	A distance-education project.
alt.education.disabled	Learning experiences for the disabled.
alt.education.distance	Learning over nets etc.
alt.elvis.sighting	Guess who I saw at K-mart?
alt.emulators.ibmpc.apple2	The blind leading the blind.
alt.emusic		Ethnic, exotic, electronic, elaborate, etc. music.
alt.ensign.wesley.die.die.die	We just can't get enough of him.
alt.ernie-pook		Long live Lynda Barry.
alt.etext		Electronic text announcements.
alt.eunuchs.questions	Handling user problems in the real world.
alt.evil		Tales from the dark side.
alt.exploding.kibo	Perhaps just wishful thinking.
alt.extropians		??.
alt.fan.BIFF		COWABUNGA, D00D!!! MY BROTHER SEZ HES AWSUM.
alt.fan.alok.vijayvargia	Vote early, and vote often.
alt.fan.amy-fisher	Joey's friend.
alt.fan.andrew-beal	Usenet is never having to say you're sorry.
alt.fan.asprin		Discussing the works of Robert Lynn Asprin.
alt.fan.biafra		An ex-Dead Kennedy.
alt.fan.bill-gates	Fans of the original micro-softie.
alt.fan.bill-fenner	PSU's cute, loveable, and fuzzy news admin.
alt.fan.brian-ellis	??.
alt.fan.bruce-becker	Bruce Becker, alt.* groups resucitator.
alt.fan.bruce.woodcock	??.
alt.fan.bugtown 	For fans of the works of Matt Howarth.
alt.fan.chaki.chaki.chaki	Chaki's fan club.
alt.fan.charles-lasner	Is assembly language better?
alt.fan.chris-elliott	Son of the comedian Bob of "Bob and Ray" fame.
alt.fan.dale-bass	Dale Bass, baseless refuter of Scientific American.
alt.fan.dan-quayle	For discussion of the US Vice President.
alt.fan.dave_barry	Electronic fan club for humorist Dave Barry.
alt.fan.david-sternlight	David Sternlight, sci.crypt crusader.
alt.fan.debbie.gibson	The world's oldest cheerleader.
alt.fan.dice-man	Fans of Andrew Dice Clay.
alt.fan.dick-depew	Dump on Dick.
alt.fan.disney.afternoon	Disney Afternoon characters & shows.
alt.fan.don.no-soul.simmons	From "Amazon Women On The Moon" fame.
alt.fan.douglas-adams	Author of "The Meaning of Liff", & other fine works.
alt.fan.ecsd		Same as alt.fan.eric-dynamic.
alt.fan.eddings 	The works of writer David Eddings.
alt.fan.elvis-presley	The King.
alt.fan.eric-dynamic	Same as alt.fan.ecsd.
alt.fan.frank-zappa	Is that a Sears poncho?
alt.fan.furry		Fans of funny animals, ala Steve Gallacci's book.
alt.fan.gene-scott	A late-nite tv bible-thumper.
alt.fan.gooley		Fans of Markian Gooley and his followers.
alt.fan.goons		Careful Neddy, it's that dastardly Moriarty again.
alt.fan.greaseman	Fans of Doug Tracht, the DJ.
alt.fan.harry-mandel	??.
alt.fan.holmes		Elementary, my dear Watfor.
alt.fan.howard-stern	Fans of the abrasive radio & TV personality.
alt.fan.hurricane.yip	??.
alt.fan.itchy-n-scratchy	Bart Simpson's favorite TV cartoon.
alt.fan.james-bond	On his Majesty's Secret Service (& secret linen too).
alt.fan.jimmy-buffett	A white sports coat and a pink crustacean.
alt.fan.jiro-nakamura	Visiting the shaman.
alt.fan.john-palmer	Tygra, tygra, burning blight...
alt.fan.ken-johnson	Discussion pertaining to the great man himself.
alt.fan.kent-montana	Appreciation of the Kent Montana Book Series.
alt.fan.kevin-darcy	For Kebbie.
alt.fan.kevin-walsh	For Prof Walsh fans.
alt.fan.lemurs		Little critters with BIG eyes.
alt.fan.lemurs.cooked	Discussion/appreciation of lemur cuisine.
alt.fan.letterman	One of the top 10 reasons to get the alt groups.
alt.fan.lightbulbs	A hardware problem.
alt.fan.madonna 	Nice tits, eh... And how about that puppy?
alt.fan.maria-callas	An opera singer.
alt.fan.mary-chungs	The famous Cambridge, MA restaurant.
alt.fan.matt.welsh	I saw a greater need.
alt.fan.max-headroom	A famous Canadian.
alt.fan.meredith-tanner Talk.Bizarre Goddess and Singing Babe.
alt.fan.mike-jittlov	Electronic fan club for animator Mike Jittlov.
alt.fan.monty-python	Electronic fan club for those wacky Brits.
alt.fan.mst3k		Mystery Science Theatre 3000 tv show.
alt.fan.mts		Michigan Terminal System, a 1970 precursor to TSO.
alt.fan.naked-guy	Discussing Andrew Martinez - the Naked Guy.
alt.fan.nathan.brazil	Hero of a Jack Chalker novel.
alt.news.macedonia	??.
alt.fan.mr-rogers	It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.
alt.fan.oingo-boingo	The Mystic Knights and their music.
alt.fan.pern		Anne McCaffery's s-f oeuvre.
alt.fan.peter.hammill	Fans of the avant-garde musician.
alt.fan.piers-anthony	For fans of the s-f author Piers Anthony.
alt.fan.poris		??.
alt.fan.pratchett	For fans of Terry Pratchett, s-f humor writer.
alt.fan.q		The Qmnipotent Qne holds court here.
alt.fan.rama-krishna	??.
alt.fan.rita-rudner	A TV comedienne.
alt.fan.robbie.pink.tutu	Electronic fan club for Rob "Tutu" Kolstad.
alt.fan.robert.mcelwaine	Another favorite net-personality.
alt.fan.roger.david.carasso	Arguments for allowing abortion up to age 21.
alt.fan.rumpole 	Join us in Pommeroy's for some Chateau Thames Embankment.
alt.fan.run-dmc 	Walk dis way...
alt.fan.rush-limbaugh	Derogation of others for fun and profit.
alt.fan.schwaben	A nice part of Germany.
alt.fan.scott-tai	??.
alt.fan.serdar-argic	All about Armenia, Turkey, genocide, and robot-posting.
alt.fan.shostakovich	Classical music composer.
alt.fan.spinal-tap	Down on the sex farm.
alt.fan.steve-zellers	He is the solution to the nitrogen equation.
alt.fan.suicide-squid	Breathtaking adventure stories.
alt.fan.tania.bedrax	Parfum in a small vial.
alt.fan.tna		For the college radio show "T n A".
alt.fan.tolkien 	...and in the dark shall find them.
alt.fan.tom-robbins	A novelist of quaint & affecting tales.
alt.fan.tom_peterson	Portland, Oregon's favorite son.
alt.fan.vic-reeves	Britain's top Light Entertainer and Formation Mollusc.
alt.fan.wal-greenslade	This is the BBC Home Service.......<CHING!>
alt.fan.warlord 	The War Lord of the West Preservation Fan Club.
alt.fan.wodehouse	Discussion of the works of humour author P.G. Wodehouse.
alt.fan.woody-allen	"Bananas", "Sleeper", "The Front", "Annie Hall", ...
alt.fandom.cons 	Announcements of conventions (SciFi and others).
alt.fandom.misc 	Other topics for fans of various kinds.
alt.fans.david.davidian.fascist.fascist.fascist 	Political commentary.
alt.fashion		All facets of the fasion industry discussed.
alt.fax.bondage 	The ancient secrets revealed.
alt.feet		Tales too ticklish to tell.
alt.feminism		Like soc.feminism, only different.
alt.filepro		??.
alt.flack		FubGeniuf ftuff.
alt.flame		Alternative, literate, pithy, succinct screaming.
alt.flame.abortion	Somewhere to direct followups to.
alt.flame.eternal	In heaven... nothing ever happens...
alt.flame.hairy-douchebag.meredith-tanner	Typical yanqui non-consensual humor.
alt.flame.hairy-douchebag.roger-david-carasso	More flames.
alt.flame.hirai.cs.dork Flaming a Nutty Perfesser.
alt.flame.marshal.perlman.weenie	More flames, from Carasso.
alt.flame.mike-steiner	??.
alt.flame.pizza.greasy	Surrogate for Domino's delivery vehicles.
alt.flame.psu		Penn State gets its own.
alt.flame.sean-ryan	Sean "Hardcore Alaskan" Ryan and his adoring fans.
alt.flame.spelling	Fore andd abowt piple whoe kant spel.
alt.flame.those.nasty.little.hangnails-ouch	Worse than torture.
alt.flame.weemba	Roasting the one & only Matthew P. Wiener.
alt.folklore.college	Collegiate humor.
alt.folklore.computers	Stories & anecdotes about computers (some true!).
alt.folklore.ghost-stories	Boo!.
alt.folklore.science	The folklore of science, not the science of folklore.
alt.folklore.urban	Urban legends, ala Jan Harold Brunvand.
alt.fondle.vomit	Chia pet replacement.
alt.food		Most folks like it.
alt.food.cocacola	& Royal Crown, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, NEHI, etc...
alt.food.dennys 	A chain of fast food restaurants.
alt.food.sugar-cereals	All about sugary breakfast cereals.
alt.foolish.users	Final resting place for the "idiot-proof" zealots.
alt.forgery		One place for all forgeries--crossposting encouraged.
alt.freedom.of.information.act	"...EXCEPT THAT Congress shall limit...".
alt.french.captain.borg.borg.borg	Picard, you are not yourself lately.
alt.fruchti.xload.glotz.glotz.glotz		For you, fruchtzwerg!.
alt.galactic-guide	Entries for the actual Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
alt.games.frp.live-action	Discussion of all forms of live-action gaming.
alt.games.gb		The Galactic Bloodshed conquest game.
alt.games.lynx		The Atari Lynx.
alt.games.mornington.crescent	Discussion of the Crescent game, and playing.
alt.games.omega 	The computer game Omega.
alt.games.sf2		The video game Street Fighter 2.
alt.games.tiddlywinks	All aspects of the game of Tiddlywinks.
alt.games.torg		Gateway for TORG mailing list.
alt.games.vga-planets	Discussion of Tim Wisseman's VGA Planets.
alt.games.video.classic From early TV remote controls to Space Invaders, etc.
alt.gathering.rainbow	For discussing the annual Rainbow Gathering.
alt.geek		To fulfill an observed need.
alt.gobment.lones	Talk about the thousand points of blight.
alt.good.morning	Would you like coffee with that?.
alt.good.news		A place for some news that's good news.
alt.gorby.coup.coup.coup	Some say he did it to himself.
alt.gorby.gone.gone.gone	Some say he did it to himself.
alt.gorets		...is like a crowded theatre full of piggies.
alt.gossip.royalty	GIF's of Fergy on page 3...
alt.gothic		The gothic movement: things mournful and dark.
alt.gourmand		Recipes & cooking info. (Moderated)
alt.grad-student.tenured	Most prison terms are finished sooner.
alt.graffiti		Usenet spraypainters and their documenters.
alt.graphics		Some prefer this to comp.graphics.
alt.graphics.pixutils	Discussion of pixmap utilities.
alt.great-lakes 	Discussions of the Great Lakes and adjacent places.
alt.great.ass.paulina	"For a year I get nothing and then this".
alt.great.ass.wheaton	More Stardrek.
alt.grins.und.grunz	Latu:rnich swachsinn.
alt.guinea.pig.conspiracy	They're here for a reason. It's been kept quiet UNTIL NOW.
alt.guitar		You axed for it, you got it.
alt.hackers		Descriptions of projects currently under development. (Moderated)
alt.hackers.cough.cough.cough	"Where's my dextromethorpan?".
alt.hackers.malicious	The really bad guys - don't take candy from them.
alt.half.operating.system.delay.delay.delay	1/2 an OS for 1/2 a computer, twice as late.
alt.happy.birthday.to.me	Sing along the dotted line.
alt.hash.house.harriers Running & drinking, now there's a great combination.
alt.hayco.sucks.mud	Odd perversion.
alt.heraldry.sca	Heraldry in the Society of Creative Anachronism.
alt.hindu		The Hindu religion. (Moderated)
alt.hinz.und.grunz	Moin ihr flaschen- und kinder-scha:nder.
alt.history.living	A forum for discussing the hobby of living history.
alt.history.what-if	What would the net have been like without this group?.
alt.horror		The horror genre.
alt.horror.cthulhu	Campus Crusade for Cthulhu, Ctulhu, Ctulu, and the rest.
alt.horror.werewolves	They were wolves, now they're something to be wary of.
alt.hotfut		Hospital of the Future.
alt.hotrod		High speed automobiles. (Moderated)
alt.housing.nontrad	Nontraditional housing (see alt.toys.lego).
alt.hurricane.andrew	The 1992 hurricane disaster.
alt.hypertext		Discussion of hypertext -- uses, transport, etc.
alt.hypnosis		When you awaken, you will forget about this newsgroup.
alt.illuminati		See alt.cabal.	Fnord.
alt.imploding.kibo	What goes out must come in.
alt.individualism	Philosophies where individual rights are paramount.
alt.industrial		The Industrial Computing Society.
alt.industrial.computing	The Industrial Computing Society tries again.
alt.inet92		Relating to the Inet '92 conference in Kobe, Japan.
alt.info-science	This is really about library science.
alt.info-theory 	This is really about information theory.
alt.internet.access.wanted	"Oh. OK, how about just an MX record for now?"
alt.internet.services		Not available in the uucp world, even via email.
alt.internet.talk-radio Carl Malamud's Internet Talk Radio program.
alt.iraqi.dictator.bomb.bomb.bomb	Keep doing it till you've got it right.
alt.irc 		Internet Relay Chat material.
alt.irc.bot		Discussion of creating irc bots.
alt.irc.corruption	Is nowhere safe?
alt.irc.corruption.log.log.log	Discussions of corrupted loggers.
alt.irc.ircii		Discussion of the IRC II client program.
alt.irc.recovery	Kill your television... er, IRC client.
alt.irc.sleaze		Internet Relay Chat flamage.
alt.irc.sleaze.mark	More Internet Relay Chat flamage.
alt.iq.endless-discussion	??.
alt.is.too		NOT!
alt.isea		International Symposia of Electronic Arts.
alt.journalism.criticism	I write, therefore I'm biased.
alt.journalism.gonzo	Fans of Hunter S. Thompson.
alt.journalism.music	General discussion of music journalism issues.
alt.jubjub		Bandersnatchii are welcome here too.
alt.kalbo		??.
alt.karaoke		Amazing that so many people know how to sing off-key.
alt.ketchup		Whak* Whak* ...shake... Whak* Damn, all over my tie.
alt.kids-talk		A place for the pre-college set on the net.
alt.kill.the.whales	This newsgroup is evidence for the coming apocalypse.
alt.killfiles		A means for modulating your version of usenet reality.
alt.kodak.cd.bitch.bitch.bitch	Definitely a challenge to the dedicated hacker.
alt.lang.apl		Compact, cryptic, Greek letters -- the perfect language.
alt.lang.asm		Assembly languages of various flavors.
alt.lang.awk		A handy UNIX interpreted language.
alt.lang.basic		The Language That Would Not Die.
alt.lang.cfutures	Discussion of the future of the C programming language
alt.lang.intercal	A joke language with a real compiler.
alt.lang.ml		The ML and SML symbolic languages.
alt.lang.sas		The SAS statistical language.
alt.lang.teco		The TECO editor language.
alt.lawyers.sue.sue.sue Worse than banana slug fleas.
alt.letter.chain	A microcosm of Usenet itself.
alt.letzebuerger	Forum for Luxemburgish students.
alt.licker.store	Hiccup!
alt.life.sucks		& then you shrivel up.
alt.locksmithing	You locked your keys in *where*?
alt.lucid-emacs.bug	Bug reports about Lucid Emacs.
alt.lucid-emacs.help	Q&A and general discussion of Lucid Emacs.
alt.lwaxana-troi.die.die.die	More Stardrek.
alt.lycra		For fans of Spandex & similar apparel.
alt.machines.misc	??.
alt.magic		For discussion about stage magic.
alt.magick		For discussion about supernatural arts.
alt.magnus_and_ketil	A sometimes inspired doofus.
alt.maroney		This is really, really stupid.
alt.materials.simulation	Computer modeling of materials. (Moderated)
alt.mcdonalds		Can I get fries with that?
alt.med.cfs		Chronic fatigue syndrome information.
alt.meditation		General discussion of meditation.
alt.meditation.transcendental	Contemplation of states beyond the teeth.
alt.messianic		Messianic traditions.
alt.mfs 		A test group, they said. Oh, sure.
alt.military.cadet	Preparing for the coming apocalypse.
alt.misanthropy 	Who asked you, you scum?
alt.mindcontrol 	You WILL read this group and ENJOY it!
alt.missing-kids	Locating missing children.
alt.models		Model building, design, etc.
alt.motd		Messages Of The Day.
alt.mothers		Most people have at least one.
alt.move.michelle.regina	Doesn't she realize what that means?
alt.mud.bsx		BSX VR system.
alt.mud.chupchups	??.
alt.mud.t-rev.stomp.stomp.stomp "Handkerchief?" "Yes, you ninny, and quickly!"
alt.music.a-cappella	Voice only, no /dev/sound.
alt.music.alternative	For groups having 2 or less Platinum-selling albums.
alt.music.bela-fleck	Discussion related to Bela  and the Flecktones.
alt.music.canada	Oh, Canada, eh?
alt.music.category-freak	Lips that touch Def Leppard shall never touch mine.
alt.music.enya		Gaelic set to spacey music.
alt.music.filk		sf/fantasy related folk music.
alt.music.hardcore	Could be porno set to music.
alt.music.jewish	Music to make you feel guilty.
alt.music.machines.of.loving.grace	Another pop group.
alt.music.marillion	Another pop group.
alt.music.pop.will.eat.itself	Another pop group.
alt.music.progressive	Yes, Marillion, Asia, King Crimson, etc.
alt.music.queen 	He's dead, Jim.
alt.music.rush		For Rushheads.
alt.music.ska		Discussions of ska ( skank ) music, bands, and suchlike.
alt.music.the.police	Don't stand so close.
alt.music.tmbg		Another pop group.
alt.my.crummy.boss	Where'd I put my gun?
alt.my.head.hurts	I can't believe this is happening AGAIN...
alt.mythology		Zeus rules.
alt.national.enquirer	Entertaining, utter drek.
alt.native		Issues for and about indigenous peoples of the world.
alt.necktie		Silly uses of silk.
alt.necromicon		Yet another sign of the coming apocalypse.
alt.net.personalities	A fan group for everybody.
alt.newbie		Alt's answer to news.newusers.*.
alt.newgroup		For people who don't like to rmgroup/newgroup things.
alt.news.macedonia	News concerning Macedonia in the Balkan Region.
alt.news-media		Don't believe the hype.
alt.news.members	Society for the Propagation of news.members.
alt.newsgroup.creators.dork.dork.dork	Feh.
alt.nick.sucks		Probably.
alt.nodies		Alaskan helpers.
alt.noise		BZZZZT! KRAK!! BLAM! %$@#*?! etc.
alt.non.sequitur	Richard Nixon.
alt.ntc-textile-res	??.
alt.olympics.medal-tally	Hey, dude, mine's bigger.
alt.online-service	Large commercial online services, and the Internet.
alt.oobe		Out Of Body Experiences (but there's some soul left).
alt.org.food-not-bombs	Food Not Bombs is an anti-hunger organisation.
alt.org.pugwash 	Technological issues from a social stance.
alt.os.multics		30 years old and going strong.
alt.os.nachos		A snack operating system for teaching.
alt.overlords		Office of the Omnipotent Overlords of the Omniverse.
alt.pagan		Discussions about paganism & religion.
alt.pantyhose		What else would be between the pagans and the paranormal?.
alt.paranormal		Phenomena which are not scientifically explicable.
alt.parents-teens	Parent-teenager relationships.
alt.party		Parties, celebration and general debauchery.
alt.pave.the.earth	One world, one people, one slab of asphalt.
alt.pcnews		Discussing PCNews software.
alt.peace.corps 	Get paid for foreign travel.
alt.peeves		Discussion of peeves & related.
alt.periphs.pcmcia	Credit card sized plug in peripherals (PCMCIA, JEDIA)
alt.personals		Do you really want to meet someone this way?
alt.personals.ads	Geek seeks Dweeb. Object: low-level interfacing.
alt.personals.bondage	Are you tied up this evening?
alt.personals.misc	Dweeb seeks Geek. Object: low-level interfacing.
alt.personals.poly	Do you multiprocess?
alt.pets.chia		"Well, I've never been bitten by one!"
alt.philosophy.objectivism	A product of the Ayn Rand corporation.
alt.planning.urban	As if any city is really planned.
alt.politics.british	Politics and a real Queen, too.
alt.politics.bush	Discussing Mr. Read-My-Lips.
alt.politics.clinton	Discussing Slick Willie & Co.
alt.politics.correct	A Neil Bush fan club.
alt.politics.democrats.clinton	Another view of silly season in the US.
alt.politics.democrats.d	Another view of silly season in the US.
alt.politics.ec 	European community stuff.
alt.politics.economics	War == Poverty, & other discussions.
alt.politics.elections	Everyone who votes for Quayle gets a free lollipop.
alt.politics.equality	An oxymoron.
alt.politics.europe.misc	Misc. discussions on European politics.
alt.politics.greens	Green party politics & activities worldwide.
alt.politics.homosexuality	As the name implies
alt.politics.italy	How they handle cigarette riots & other things.
alt.politics.kibo	BOOM. Ka-WHUMP. CRASH. ...oops...
alt.politics.libertarian	The libertarian ideology.
alt.politics.marrou	Andre Marrou, Libertarian presidential candidate.
alt.politics.media	There's lies, damn lies, statistics, and news reports.
alt.politics.org.misc	Political organizations.
alt.politics.org.un	Politics at the "United" Nations.
alt.politics.perot	Discussion of the non-candidate.
alt.politics.radical-left	Who remains after the radicals left?
alt.politics.reform	Political reform.
alt.politics.sex	Not a good idea to mix them, sez Marilyn & Profumo.
alt.politics.shelfbutt	Typical yanqui racist humor.
alt.politics.usa.constitution	U.S. Constitutional politics.
alt.politics.usa.misc	Misc. USA politics.
alt.politics.usa.republican	Discussions of the USA Republican Party.
alt.politics.vietnamese Political & social discussions about Vietnam.
alt.polyamory		For those who maintain multiple love relationships.
alt.postmodern		Postmodernism, semiotics, deconstruction, and the like.
alt.president.clinton	Will the CIA undermine his efforts?
alt.prisons		Can I get an alt.* feed in the slammer?.
alt.privacy		Privacy issues in cyberspace.
alt.privacy.anon-server Use and abuse discussions.
alt.privacy.clipper	No, really, we can't read it. *snicker*.
alt.prophecies.nostradamus	He said it so it must be true.
alt.prose		Postings of original writings, fictional & otherwise.
alt.prose.d		Discussions about postings in alt.prose.
alt.psychoactives	Better living through chemistry.
alt.psychology.personality	Personality taxonomy, such as Myers-Briggs.
alt.pub.cloven-shield	S-F role-playing.
alt.pub.havens-rest	S-F role-playing.
alt.pulp		Paperback fiction, newsprint production, orange juice.
alt.puns.joey-buttafuoco	The possibilities are almost endless.
alt.ql.creative 	The "Quantum Leap" tv show.
alt.quake		About California and other earthquakes.
alt.quotations		Another form of sampling.
alt.radio.pirate	Hide the gear, here comes the magic station-wagons.
alt.radio.scanner	Discussion of scanning radio receivers.
alt.rap 		For fans of rap music.
alt.rap-gdead		Fans of The Grateful Dead and Rap.  Really.
alt.rave		Techno-culture: music, dancing, drugs, dancing...
alt.recovery		For people in recovery programs (e.g., AA, ACA, GA).
alt.recovery.codependency	For people in yet more recovery programs.
alt.religion.adm3a	Flaming the merits of the Sigler-Lear ADM3A.
alt.religion.all-worlds Grokking the Church of All Worlds from Heinlein's book.
alt.religion.computers	People who believe computing is "real life."
alt.religion.emacs	Emacs.	Umacs.	We all macs.
alt.religion.kibology	He's Fred, Jim.
alt.religion.monica	Discussion about net-venus Monica and her works.
alt.religion.sabaean	Discussing the Sabaean religious order.
alt.religion.santaism	Devil-worshipping dyslexics.
alt.religion.scientology	He's dead, Jim.
alt.religion.vince	No, not him, the other one -- Vince!
alt.revisionism 	"It CAN'T be that way 'cause here's the FACTS".
alt.revolution.counter	Discussions of counter-revolutionary issues.
alt.rhode_island	Discussion of the great little state.
alt.rissa		Fans (and otherwise) of Patricia O'Tuama.
alt.rmgroup		For the people who like to rmgroup/newgroup things.
alt.rock-n-roll 	Counterpart to alt.sex and alt.drugs.
alt.rock-n-roll.acdc	Dirty deeds done dirt cheap.
alt.rock-n-roll.classic Like the Mac classic and the Sparc classic.
alt.rock-n-roll.hard	Music where stance is everything.
alt.rock-n-roll.metal	For the headbangers on the net.
alt.rock-n-roll.metal.gnr	"Axl Rose" is an anagram for "Oral Sex".
alt.rock-n-roll.metal.heavy	Non-sissyboy metal bands.
alt.rock-n-roll.metal.ironmaiden	Sonic torture methods.
alt.rock-n-roll.metal.metallica Another pop group.
alt.rock-n-roll.metal.progressive	Slayer teams up with Tom Cora.
alt.rock-n-roll.symphonic	Cognitive dissonance in an orchestral mode.
alt.rodney.dangerfield		A newsgroup that don't get no respect.
alt.rodney.king 	Four of a kind beat a king.
alt.romance		Discussion about the romantic side of love.
alt.romance.chat	Talk about no sex.
alt.rush-limbaugh	Fans of the conservative activist radio announcer.
alt.sadistic.dentists.drill.drill.drill Novocaine won't help you.
alt.satanism		Not such a bad dude once you get to know him.
alt.save.the.earth	Environmentalist causes.
alt.sci.astro.aips	Discussions on the Astronomical Image Processing System.
alt.sci.astro.figaro	The Figaro data-reduction package.
alt.sci.image-facility	??.
alt.sci.physics.acoustics	Sound advice.
alt.sci.physics.new-theories	Scientific theories you won't find in journals.
alt.sci.planetary	Studies in planetary science.
alt.sect.ahmadiyya	Discussion of the Ahmadiyyat sect of Islam.
alt.security.index	Pointers to good stuff in {alt,misc}.security. (Moderated)
alt.security.keydist	Exchange of keys for public key encryption systems.
alt.security.pgp	The Pretty Good Privacy package.
alt.security.ripem	A secure email system illegal to export from the US.
alt.sega.genesis	Another addiction.
alt.self-improve	Self-improvement in less than 14 characters.
alt.sewing		A group that is not as it seams.
alt.sex 		Postings of a prurient nature.
alt.sex.NOT		For those who've had enough of sex, or else want to.
alt.sex.aluminum.baseball.bat	Postings of a very prurient nature.
alt.sex.bestiality	Happiness is a warm puppy.
alt.sex.bestiality.hamster.duct-tape	That little squeek they make is so *cute*...
alt.sex.bondage 	Tie me, whip me, make me read the net!
alt.sex.bondage.particle.physics	Extracting yourself from a quagma.
alt.sex.boredom 	For those who fall asleep BEFORE.
alt.sex.carasso 	Where Carasso's SO is himself.
alt.sex.carasso.snuggles	I can't talk, my mouth is full.
alt.sex.fetish.feet	Kiss them. Now.
alt.sex.head		Tales of certain erotic activities.
alt.sex.ho		Gangsta fun.
alt.sex.homosexual	As the name implies.
alt.sex.masturbation	Where one's SO is oneself.
alt.sex.motss		Jesse Helms would not subscribe to this group.
alt.sex.movies		Discussing the ins and outs of certain movies.
alt.sex.nudels.me.too	??.
alt.sex.sonja		Yesssss....
alt.sex.stories 	For those who need it *NOW*.
alt.sex.stories.d	For those who talk about needing it *NOW*
alt.sex.trans		Transsexuality.
alt.sex.wanted		Requests for erotica, either literary or in the flesh.
alt.sex.wizards 	Questions for only true Sex wizards.
alt.sex.woody-allen	A Mid-Summer's Night Sex Comedy.
alt.sexual.abuse.recovery	Helping others deal with traumatic experiences.
alt.sexy.bald.captains	More Stardrek.
alt.sf4m		Stony Brook Science Fiction Forum discussions.
alt.shenanigans 	Practical jokes, pranks, randomness, etc.
alt.showbiz.gossip	Who's doing what to whom in showbiz.
alt.shrinky.dinks	What are they?
alt.shut.the.hell.up.geek	Group for Usenet motto.
alt.sigma2.height	Big or small, come one come all.
alt.sigma2.penis	The bigger they are, the softer they fall.
alt.silly.group.names.d Eponymy.
alt.skate-board 	Discussion of all apsects of skate-boarding.
alt.skinheads		The skinhead culture/anti-culture.
alt.slack		Posting relating to the Church of the Subgenius.
alt.slack.BoB.dirtbag	Posting berating to the Church of the Subgenius.
alt.slime		Worse than lawyers.
alt.smouldering.dog.zone	Explosions and the deity.
alt.snowmobiles 	High-horsepower sleds in the powder.
alt.society.ati 	The Activist Times Digest.  (Moderated)
alt.society.civil-disob Civil disobedience.
alt.society.civil-liberties	Individual rights.
alt.society.etrnl-vigilanc	A Barry Goldwater fan club.
alt.society.revolution	Discussions on revolution(s).
alt.society.sovereign	Independantistes, unite!
alt.soft-sys.tooltalk		Forum for ToolTalk related issues.
alt.sources		Alternative source code, unmoderated. Caveat Emptor.
alt.sources.amiga	Technically-oriented Amiga PC sources.
alt.sources.amiga.d		Discussion of technically-oriented Amiga PC sources.
alt.sources.d		Discussion of posted sources.
alt.sources.index	Pointers to source code in alt.sources.*. (Moderated)
alt.sources.patches	Reposted patches from non-bugs groups.
alt.sources.wanted	Requests for source code.
alt.spam.tin		Spam is neither particle nor wave - it is a property.
alt.spleen		The spleen is underappreciated...
alt.sport.bowling	In the gutter again.
alt.sport.bungee	Like alt.suicide with rubber bands.
alt.sport.darts 	Look what you've done to the wall!
alt.sport.lasertag	Indoor splatball with infrared lasers.
alt.sport.photon	Light amusement.
alt.sport.pool		Knock your balls into your pockets for fun.
alt.stagecraft		Technical theatre issues.
alt.startrek.creative	Stories and parodies related to Star Trek.
alt.stupid.putz 	Getting the next-to-the-last word.
alt.stupid.putz.BoB.BoB.BoB	J.R. "BoB" Dobbs has no Slack.
alt.stupid.putz.gritzner	Thomas Gritzner pseudo-fans.
alt.stupidity		Discussion about stupid newsgroups.
alt.suburbs		Sprawling on the fringes of the city.
alt.suicide.finals	Is that last name, first?
alt.suicide.holiday	Talk of why suicides increase at holidays.
alt.suit.att-bsdi	Is this where David gets Goliath again?
alt.super.nes		Discussion of the Super Nintendo video game.
alt.supermodels 	Discussing famous & beautiful models.
alt.support		Dealing with emotional situations & experiences.
alt.support.big-folks	Sizeism can be as awful as sexism or racism.
alt.support.cancer	Dealing with the Big C.
alt.support.diet	Seeking enlightenment through weight loss.
alt.support.mult-sclerosis	Discussion about living with multiple sclerosis.
alt.support.step-parents	??.
alt.surfing		Riding the ocean waves.
alt.sustainable.agriculture	Such as the Mekong delta before Agent Orange.
alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork Don't ask.
alt.sys.amiga.demos	Code and talk to show off the Amiga.
alt.sys.amiga.uucp	AmigaUUCP.
alt.sys.amiga.uucp.patches	Patches for AmigaUUCP.
alt.sys.intergraph	Support for Intergraph machines.
alt.sys.pdp8		There's an X Windows port in progress...
alt.sys.perq		Keeping the antiques working.
alt.tarot		In this card game you play for keeps...
alt.tasteless		Truly disgusting.
alt.tasteless.jokes	Sometimes insulting rather than disgusting or humorous.
alt.tasteless.penis	Not a recipe group (we hope!).
alt.test		Alternative subnetwork testing.
alt.text.dwb		Discussion of the AT&T Documenter's WorkBench.
alt.thrash		Thrashlife.
alt.timewasters 	A Dutch computer club; perhaps a microcosm of Usenet...
alt.tla 		Palindromic fun, or else Three-Letter-Acronyms.
alt.todd.green.likes.it.up.the.butt	Typical yanqui sexist humor.
alt.toolkits.xview	The X windows XView toolkit.
alt.toon-pics		More copyright violations.
alt.toys.lego		Snap 'em together.
alt.transgendered	Boys will be girls, and vice-versa.
alt.true.crime		To balance out all the false crime on the net.
alt.tv.90210		Teenyboppers on tv.
alt.tv.antagonists	Fans of the new "The Antagonists" TV show.
alt.tv.babylon-5	Casablanca in space.
alt.tv.beakmans-world	Beakman, Josie the kid, and the big rat.
alt.tv.dinosaur.barney.die.die.die	Are you extinct yet?
alt.tv.dinosaurs	The bigger they are...
alt.tv.fifteen		Nickolodeon's show, "Fifteen", etc.
alt.tv.infomercials	Yes! Ron Popeil is telling the truth! Depend on it!
alt.tv.la-law		For the folks out in la-law land.
alt.tv.liquid-tv	Right there on your pitcher tube.
alt.tv.mash		Nothing like a good comedy about war and dying.
alt.tv.melrose-place	More teenyboppers on tv.
alt.tv.misc		Better to talk about it than watch it.
alt.tv.mst3k		Hey, you robots! Down in front!.
alt.tv.muppets		Miss Piggy on the tube.
alt.tv.mwc		"Married... With Children".
alt.tv.northern-exp	For the TV show with moss growing on it.
alt.tv.prisoner 	The Prisoner television series from years ago.
alt.tv.red-dwarf	The British sci-fi/comedy show.
alt.tv.ren-n-stimpy	Some change from Lassie, eh?
alt.tv.saved-by-the-bell	Fans of the clapper.
alt.tv.seinfeld 	A funny guy.
alt.tv.simpsons 	Don't have a cow, man!
alt.tv.snl		The Saturday Nite Limbaugh ...errr, *Live* TV show.
alt.tv.tiny-toon	Discussion about the "Tiny Toon Adventures" show.
alt.tv.tiny-toon.plucky-duck	Discussion about "The Plucky Duck Show".
alt.tv.twin-peaks	Discussion about the popular (and unusual) TV show.
alt.usage.english	English grammar, word usages, and related topics.
alt.usenet.offline-reader	Getting your fix offline.
alt.usenet.recovery	Reupholster your news reader.
alt.uu.announce 	Announcements of Usenet University.
alt.uu.comp.misc	Computer department of Usenet University.
alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions	UU Linux learning group - the Q&A column.
alt.uu.future		Planning the future of Usenet University.
alt.uu.lang.esperanto.misc	Study of Esperanto in Usenet University.
alt.uu.lang.misc	Language department of Usenet University.
alt.uu.lang.russian.misc	Study of Russian in Usenet University.
alt.uu.math.misc	Math department of Usenet University.
alt.uu.misc.misc	Misc. department of Usenet University.
alt.uu.tools		Tools for Usenet University and education.
alt.uu.virtual-worlds.misc	Study of virtual worlds in Usenet University.
alt.vampyres		Discussion of vampires and related writings, films, etc.
alt.video.laserdisc	??.
alt.vigilantes		Lynch those folks in alt.criminals!
alt.visa.us		Discussion/information on visas pertaining to US.
alt.wall		"5397 miles to Wall Drug". (Moderated)
alt.wanted.mars.women	Mars Needs Women!
alt.wanted.moslem.bestiality	It won't be too popular with some folks.
alt.wanted.moslem.gay	This is not suggested reading for the intolerant.
alt.wanted.moslem.men	Does this include Salman Rushdie?
alt.wanted.moslem.women For those so inclined.
alt.war 		Not just collateral damage.
alt.war.civil.usa	Lest we forget...
alt.war.vietnam 	Lest we forget...
alt.waves		??.
alt.wee.willie.wisner	The guy who came in from the cold (for a while, anyway).
alt.weemba		Talk & flames about the one & only Weemba.
alt.whine		Why me?
alt.who.is.bob		Send $11.
alt.windows.text	Text-based (i.e., non-graphical) window systems.
alt.winsock		Windows Sockets.
alt.wolves		Discussing wolves & wolf-mix dogs.
alt.world.taeis 	The shared-world project "taeis".
alt.wpi.negativland.subgenii.for.rent	Not to be missed.
alt.x-headers.overboard RFC-822 may have opened up Pandora's box.
alt.zines		Small magazines, mostly noncommercial.
alt.znet.fnet		Z*NET-related FNET topics & gateway.
alt.znet.pc		Z*NET International PC, an ASCII-based magazine.

Submissions to the moderated alt groups should be made to the
addresses listed in the companion posting of moderator addresses.

You can join the "alt subnet" by finding a site in your area that
carries the groups.  Either send mail to the administrators of the
sites you connect to, or post something to a local "general" or
"wanted" newsgroup for your area .  If no sites nearby are getting
them, you can get them from uunet or psi.

Bionet
------
There is a newsgroup hierarchy for topics interesting to biologists
called "bionet" originating from net.bio.net and carried on a number
of machines including rutgers, phri, mit-eddie, ukma, and all of the
machines at UCSD.  Contact David Kristofferson <biosci@net.bio.net>
for more details.  The current newsgroup list looks like this:

bionet.agroforestry	Discussion of Agroforestry.
bionet.announce 	Announcements of interest to biologists. (Moderated)
bionet.biology.computational	Computer and mathematical applications. (Moderated)
bionet.biology.n2-fixation	Research issues on biological nitrogen fixation.
bionet.biology.tropical Discussions about tropical biology.
bionet.drosophila	Discussions about the biology of Drosophila.
bionet.general		General BIOSCI discussion.
bionet.genome.chrom22	Discussion of Chromosome 22.
bionet.genome.arabidopsis	Information about the Arabidopsis project.
bionet.immunology	Discussions about research in immunology.
bionet.info-theory	Discussions about biological information theory.
bionet.jobs		Scientific Job opportunities.
bionet.journals.contents	Contents of biology journal publications. (Moderated)
bionet.journals.note	Advice on dealing with journals in biology.
bionet.molbio.ageing	Discussions of cellular and organismal ageing.
bionet.molbio.bio-matrix	Computer applications to biological databases.
bionet.molbio.embldatabank	Info about the EMBL Nucleic acid database.
bionet.molbio.evolution How genes and proteins have evolved.
bionet.molbio.gdb	Messages to and from the GDB database staff.
bionet.molbio.genbank	Info about the GenBank Nucleic acid database.
bionet.molbio.genbank.updates	Hot off the presses! (Moderated)
bionet.molbio.gene-linkage	Discussions about genetic linkage analysis.
bionet.molbio.genome-program	Discussion of Human Genome Project issues.
bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts	Requests for information and lab reagents.
bionet.molbio.hiv	Discussions about the molecular biology of HIV.
bionet.molbio.proteins	Research on proteins and protein databases.
bionet.molbio.rapd	Research on Randomly Amplified Polymorphic DNA.
bionet.molbio.yeast	Discussions about the molecular biology and genetics of yeast.
bionet.neuroscience	Research issues in the neurosciences.
bionet.plants		Discussion about all aspects of plant biology.
bionet.population-bio	Technical discussions about population biology.
bionet.sci-resources	Information about funding agencies, etc. (Moderated)
bionet.software 	Information about software for biology.
bionet.software.sources Software Source relating to biology. (Moderated)
bionet.users.addresses	Who's who in Biology.
bionet.virology 	Discussions about research in virology.
bionet.women-in-bio	Discussions about women in biology.
bionet.xtallography	Discussions about protein crystallography.

Submissions to bionet.software.sources should be mailed to
software-sources@net.bio.net (Kenton Hoover).

Bit
---
"bit" is a collection of newsgroups which are being distributed by a
collection of sites that choose to carry them. The "bit" newsgroups
are redistributions of the more popular BitNet LISTSERV mailing lists.
Here is a list of the "bit" newsgroups:

bit.admin	bit Newgroups Discussions.
bit.general	Discussions Relating to BitNet/Usenet.
bit.listserv.ada-law	ADA Law Discussions.
bit.listserv.advanc-l	Geac Advanced Integrated Library System Users.
bit.listserv.advise-l	User Services List.
bit.listserv.aix-l	IBM AIX Discussion List.
bit.listserv.allmusic	Discussions on all forms of Music.
bit.listserv.appc-l	APPC Discussion List.
bit.listserv.apple2-l	Apple II List.
bit.listserv.applicat	Applications under BITNET.
bit.listserv.arie-l	RLG Ariel Document Transmission Group.
bit.listserv.ashe-l	Higher Ed Policy and Research.
bit.listserv.asm370	IBM 370 Assembly Programming Discussions.
bit.listserv.autism	Autism and Developmental Disability List.
bit.listserv.banyan-l	Banyan Vines Network Software Discussions.
bit.listserv.big-lan	Campus-Size LAN Discussion Group. (Moderated)
bit.listserv.billing	Chargeback of computer resources.
bit.listserv.biosph-l	Biosphere, ecology, Discussion List.
bit.listserv.bitnews	BITNET News.
bit.listserv.blindnws	Blindness Issues and Discussions. (Moderated)
bit.listserv.buslib-l	Business Libraries List.
bit.listserv.c+health	Computer and Health Discussion List.
bit.listserv.candle-l	Candle Products Discussion List.
bit.listserv.catholic	Free Catholics Mailing List.
bit.listserv.cdromlan	CD-ROM on Local Area Networks.
bit.listserv.christia	Practical Christian Life. (Moderated)
bit.listserv.cfs.newsletter	Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Newsletter. (Moderated)
bit.listserv.cics-l	CICS Discussion List.
bit.listserv.cinema-l	Discussions on all forms of Cinema.
bit.listserv.circplus	Circulation Reserve and Related Library Issues.
bit.listserv.cmspip-l	VM/SP CMS Pipelines Discussion List.
bit.listserv.commed	Communication education.
bit.listserv.csg-l	Control System Group Network.
bit.listserv.cumrec-l	CUMREC-L Administrative computer use.
bit.listserv.cw-email	Campus-Wide E-mail Discussion List.
bit.listserv.cwis-l	Campus-Wide Information Systems.
bit.listserv.cyber-l	CDC Computer Discussion.
bit.listserv.c18-l	18th Century Interdisciplinary Discussion.
bit.listserv.c370-l	C/370 Discussion List.
bit.listserv.dasig	Database Administration.
bit.listserv.dbase-l	Discussion on the use of the dBase IV.
bit.listserv.db2-l	DB2 Data Base Discussion List.
bit.listserv.deaf-l	Deaf List.
bit.listserv.decnews	Digital Equipment Corporation News List.
bit.listserv.dectei-l	DECUS Education Software Library Discussions.
bit.listserv.devel-l	Technology Transfer in International Development.
bit.listserv.disarm-l	Disarmament Discussion List.
bit.listserv.domain-l	Domains Discussion Group.
bit.listserv.earntech	EARN Technical Group.
bit.listserv.ecolog-l	Ecological Society of America.
bit.listserv.edi-l	Electronic Data Interchange Issues.
bit.listserv.edpolyan	Professionals and Students Discuss Education.
bit.listserv.edstat-l	Statistics Education Discussion List.
bit.listserv.edtech	EDTECH - Educational Technology. (Moderated)
bit.listserv.edusig-l	EDUSIG Discussions.
bit.listserv.emusic-l	Electronic Music Discussion List.
bit.listserv.endnote	Bibsoft Endnote Discussions.
bit.listserv.envbeh-l	Forum on Environment and Human Behavior.
bit.listserv.erl-l	Educational Research List.
bit.listserv.ethics-l	Discussion of Ethics in Computing.
bit.listserv.ethology	Ethology List.
bit.listserv.euearn-l	Eastern Europe List.
bit.listserv.film-l	Film making and reviews List.
bit.listserv.fnord-l	New Ways of Thinking List.
bit.listserv.free-l	Fathers Rights and Equality Discussion List.
bit.listserv.frac-l	FRACTAL Discussion List.
bit.listserv.games-l	Computer Games List.
bit.listserv.gaynet	GayNet Discussion List. (Moderated)
bit.listserv.gddm-l	The GDDM Discussion List.
bit.listserv.geodesic	List for the Discussion of Buckminster Fuller.
bit.listserv.gguide	BITNIC GGUIDE List.
bit.listserv.govdoc-l	Discussion of Government Document Issues.
bit.listserv.gutnberg	GUTNBERG Discussion List.
bit.listserv.hellas	The Hellenic Discussion List. (Moderated)
bit.listserv.help-net	Help on BitNet and the Internet.
bit.listserv.hindu-d	Hindu Digest. (Moderated)
bit.listserv.history	History List.
bit.listserv.hytel-l	HYTELNET Discussions. (Moderated)
bit.listserv.i-amiga	Info-Amiga List.
bit.listserv.ibm-hesc	IBM Higher Education Consortium.
bit.listserv.ibm-main	IBM Mainframe Discussion List.
bit.listserv.ibm-nets	BITNIC IBM-NETS List.
bit.listserv.ibmtcp-l	IBM TCP/IP List.
bit.listserv.ibm7171	Protocol Converter List.
bit.listserv.india-d	India Interest Group. (Moderated)
bit.listserv.info-gcg	INFO-GCG: GCG Genetics Software Discussion.
bit.listserv.ingrafx	Information Graphics.
bit.listserv.innopac	Innovative Interfaces Online Public Access.
bit.listserv.ioob-l	Industrial Psychology.
bit.listserv.ipct-l	Interpersonal Computing and Technology List. (Moderated)
bit.listserv.isn	ISN Data Switch Technical Discussion Group.
bit.listserv.jes2-l	JES2 Discussion group.
bit.listserv.jnet-l	BITNIC JNET-L List.
bit.listserv.l-hcap	Handicap List. (Moderated)
bit.listserv.l-vmctr	VMCENTER Components Discussion List.
bit.listserv.lawsch-l	Law School Discussion List.
bit.listserv.liaison	BITNIC LIAISON.
bit.listserv.libref-l	Library Reference Issues.
bit.listserv.libres	Library and Information Science Research. (Moderated)
bit.listserv.license	Software Licensing List.
bit.listserv.linkfail	Link failure announcements.
bit.listserv.literary	Discussions about Literature.
bit.listserv.lstsrv-l	Forum on LISTSERV.
bit.listserv.mail-l	BITNIC MAIL-L List.
bit.listserv.mailbook	MAIL/MAILBOOK subscription List.
bit.listserv.mba-l	MBA Student curriculum Discussion.
bit.listserv.mbu-l	Megabyte University - Computers and Writing.
bit.listserv.mdphd-l	Dual Degree Programs Discussion List.
bit.listserv.medlib-l	Medical Libraries Discussion List.
bit.listserv.medforum	Medical Student Discussions. (Moderated)
bit.listserv.mednews	Health Info-Com Network Newsletter. (Moderated)
bit.listserv.mideur-l	Middle Europe Discussion List.
bit.listserv.netnws-l	NETNWS-L Netnews List.
bit.listserv.nettrain	Network Trainers List.
bit.listserv.new-list	NEW-LIST - New List Announcements. (Moderated)
bit.listserv.next-l	NeXT Computer List.
bit.listserv.nodmgt-l	Node Management.
bit.listserv.notis-l	NOTIS/DOBIS Discussion group List.
bit.listserv.notabene	Nota Bene List.
bit.listserv.novell	Novell LAN Interest Group.
bit.listserv.omrscan	OMR Scanner Discussion.
bit.listserv.os2-l	OS/2 Discussion.
bit.listserv.ozone	OZONE Discussion List.
bit.listserv.pacs-l	Public-Access Computer System Forum. (Moderated)
bit.listserv.page-l	IBM 3812/3820 Tips and Problems Discussion List.
bit.listserv.pagemakr	PageMaker for Desktop Publishers.
bit.listserv.pmdf-l	PMDF Distribution List.
bit.listserv.politics	Forum for the Discussion of Politics.
bit.listserv.postcard	Postcard Collectors Discussion Group.
bit.listserv.power-l	POWER-L IBM RS/6000 POWER Family.
bit.listserv.powerh-l	PowerHouse Discussion List.
bit.listserv.psycgrad	Psychology Grad Student Discussions.
bit.listserv.qualrs-l	Qualitative Research of the Human Sciences.
bit.listserv.relusr-l	Relay Users Forum.
bit.listserv.rhetoric	Rhetoric, social movements, persuasion.
bit.listserv.rscs-l	VM/RSCS Mailing List.
bit.listserv.rscsmods	The RSCS modifications List.
bit.listserv.s-comput	SuperComputers List.
bit.listserv.sas-l	SAS Discussion.
bit.listserv.script-l	IBM vs Waterloo SCRIPT Discussion Group.
bit.listserv.scuba-l	Scuba diving Discussion List.
bit.listserv.seasia-l	Southeast Asia Discussion List.
bit.listserv.seds-l	Interchapter SEDS Communications.
bit.listserv.sfs-l	VM Shared File System Discussion List.
bit.listserv.sganet	Student Government Global Mail Network.
bit.listserv.simula	The SIMULA Language List.
bit.listserv.slart-l	SLA Research and Teaching.
bit.listserv.slovak-l	Slovak Discussion List.
bit.listserv.snamgt-l	SNA Network Management Discussion.
bit.listserv.sos-data	Social Science Data List.
bit.listserv.spires-l	SPIRES Conference List.
bit.listserv.sportpsy	Exercise and Sports Psychology.
bit.listserv.spssx-l	SPSSX Discussion.
bit.listserv.sqlinfo	Forum for SQL/DS and Related Topics.
bit.listserv.stat-l	STATISTICAL CONSULTING.
bit.listserv.tech-l	BITNIC TECH-L List.
bit.listserv.techwr-l	Technical Writing List.
bit.listserv.test	Test Newsgroup.
bit.listserv.tex-l	The TeXnical topics List.
bit.listserv.tn3270-l	tn3270 protocol Discussion List.
bit.listserv.toolb-l	Asymetrix Toolbook List.
bit.listserv.trans-l	BITNIC TRANS-L List.
bit.listserv.travel-l	Tourism Discussions.
bit.listserv.ucp-l	University Computing Project Mailing List.
bit.listserv.ug-l	Usage Guidelines.
bit.listserv.uigis-l	User Interface for Geographical Info Systems.
bit.listserv.urep-l	UREP-L Mailing List.
bit.listserv.usrdir-l	User Directory List.
bit.listserv.uus-l	Unitarian-Universalist List.
bit.listserv.valert-l	Virus Alert List. (Moderated)
bit.listserv.vfort-l	VS-Fortran Discussion List.
bit.listserv.vm-util	VM Utilities Discussion List.
bit.listserv.vmesa-l	VM/ESA Mailing List.
bit.listserv.vmslsv-l	VAX/VMS LISTSERV Discussion List.
bit.listserv.vmxa-l	VM/XA Discussion List.
bit.listserv.vnews-l	VNEWS Discussion List.
bit.listserv.vpiej-l	Electronic Publishing Discussion List.
bit.listserv.win3-l	Microsoft Windows Version 3 Forum.
bit.listserv.words-l	English Language Discussion Group.
bit.listserv.wpwin-l	WordPerfect for Windows.
bit.listserv.wpcorp-l	WordPerfect Corporation Products Discussions.
bit.listserv.xcult-l	International Intercultural Newsletter.
bit.listserv.xedit-l	VM System Editor List.
bit.listserv.xerox-l	The Xerox Discussion List.
bit.listserv.xmailer	Crosswell Mailer.
bit.listserv.xtropy-l	Extopian List.
bit.listserv.x400-l	x.400 Protocol List.
bit.listserv.9370-l	IBM 9370 and VM/IS specific topics List.
bit.listserv.3com-l	3Com Products Discussion  List.
bit.mailserv.word-mac	Word Processing on the Macintosh.
bit.mailserv.word-pc	Word Processing on the IBM PC.

Biz
---
"Biz" is a distribution of newsgroups that are carried and propagated
by sites interested in the world of business products around them -- in
particular, computer products and services.  This includes product
announcements, announcements of fixes and enhancements, product
reviews, and postings of demo software.  Current biz groups include:

biz.books.technical	A place to contact book sellers & buyers.
biz.clarinet		Announcements about ClariNet.
biz.clarinet.sample	Samples of ClariNet newsgroups for the outside world.
biz.comp.hardware	Generic commercial hardware postings.
biz.comp.services	Generic commercial service postings.
biz.comp.software	Generic commercial software postings.
biz.comp.telebit	Support of the Telebit modem.
biz.comp.telebit.netblazer	The Telebit Netblazer.
biz.config		Biz Usenet configuration and administration.
biz.control		Control information and messages.
biz.dec 		DEC equipment & software.
biz.dec.ip		IP networking on DEC machines.
biz.dec.workstations	DEC workstation discussions & info.
biz.jobs.offered	Position announcements.
biz.misc		Miscellaneous postings of a commercial nature.
biz.sco.announce	SCO and related product announcements. (Moderated)
biz.sco.binaries	Binary packages for SCO Xenix, UNIX, or ODT.
biz.sco.general 	Q&A, discussions and comments on SCO products.
biz.sco.magazine	To discuss the magazine and its contents.
biz.sco.opendesktop	ODT environment and applications tech info, q&a.
biz.sco.sources 	Source code ported to an SCO operating environment.
biz.tadpole.sparcbook	Discussions on the Sparcbook portable computer.
biz.test		Biz newsgroup test messages.
biz.stolen		Postings about stolen merchandise.

Feeds may possibly be obtained from ddsw1.mcs.com, husc6.harvard.edu,
rpi.edu, rutgers.edu, spl1, and telly.on.ca among others.
--
Gene Spafford
Software Engineering Research Center & Dept. of Computer Sciences
Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-1398
Internet:  spaf@cs.purdue.edu	phone:	(317) 494-7825

From: spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups,news.announce.newusers,news.announce.newgroups,news.answers
Subject: Alternative Newsgroup Hierarchies, Part II
Summary: Second of two postings.  This part describes the following
Message-ID: <spaf-altgroups2_735800532@cs.purdue.edu>
Date: 26 Apr 1993 00:02:15 -0500
Expires: 25 Jun 93 17:02:12 GMT
References: <spaf-altgroups_735800527@cs.purdue.edu>
Followup-To: news.groups
Organization: Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ.
Lines: 687
Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.edu
Supersedes: <spaf-altgroups2_728545597@cs.purdue.edu>

Archive-name: alt-hierarchies/part2


ClariNet
--------
The ClariNet hierarchy consists of newsgroups gatewayed from
commercial news services and other ``official'' sources.  A feed of
the ClariNet groups requires payment of a fee and execution of a
license.  More information may be obtained by sending mail to
"info@clarinet.com".

clari.biz.commodity	Commodity news and price reports. (Moderated)
clari.biz.courts	Lawsuits and business related legal matters. (Moderated)
clari.biz.economy	Economic news and indicators. (Moderated)
clari.biz.economy.world Economy stories for non-US countries. (Moderated)
clari.biz.features		Business feature stories. (Moderated)
clari.biz.finance	Finance, currency, Corporate finance. (Moderated)
clari.biz.finance.earnings	Earnings & dividend reports. (Moderated)
clari.biz.finance.personal	Personal investing & finance. (Moderated)
clari.biz.finance.services	Banks and financial industries. (Moderated)
clari.biz.invest	News for investors. (Moderated)
clari.biz.labor 	Strikes, unions and labor relations. (Moderated)
clari.biz.market	General stock market news. (Moderated)
clari.biz.market.amex	American Stock Exchange reports & news. (Moderated)
clari.biz.market.dow	Dow Jones NYSE reports. (Moderated)
clari.biz.market.ny	NYSE reports. (Moderated)
clari.biz.market.otc	NASDAQ reports. (Moderated)
clari.biz.market.report General market reports, S&P, etc. (Moderated)
clari.biz.mergers	Mergers and acquisitions. (Moderated)
clari.biz.misc		Other business news. (Moderated)
clari.biz.products	Important new products & services. (Moderated)
clari.biz.top		Top business news. (Moderated)
clari.biz.urgent	Breaking business news. (Moderated)
clari.canada.biz	Canadian Business Summaries. (Moderated)
clari.canada.features	Alamanac, Ottawa Special, Arts. (Moderated)
clari.canada.general	Short items on Canadian News stories. (Moderated)
clari.canada.gov	Government related news (all levels). (Moderated)
clari.canada.law	Crimes, the courts and the law. (Moderated)
clari.canada.newscast	Regular newscast for Canadians. (Moderated)
clari.canada.politics	Political and election items. (Moderated)
clari.canada.trouble	Mishaps, accidents and serious problems. (Moderated)
clari.feature.dave_barry	Columns of humourist Dave Barry. (Moderated)
clari.feature.kinsey	Sex Q&A and Advice from Kinsey Institute. (Moderated)
clari.feature.mike_royko	Chicago Opinion Columnist Mike Royko. (Moderated)
clari.feature.miss_manners	Judith Martin's Humourous Etiquette Advice. (Moderated)
clari.local.alberta.briefs	Local news Briefs. (Moderated)
clari.local.arizona		Local news. (Moderated)
clari.local.arizona.briefs	Local news Briefs. (Moderated)
clari.local.bc.briefs		Local news Briefs. (Moderated)
clari.local.california		Local news. (Moderated)
clari.local.california.briefs	Local news Briefs. (Moderated)
clari.local.chicago		Local news. (Moderated)
clari.local.chicago.briefs	Local news Briefs. (Moderated)
clari.local.florida		Local news. (Moderated)
clari.local.florida.briefs	Local news Briefs. (Moderated)
clari.local.georgia		Local news. (Moderated)
clari.local.georgia.briefs	Local news Briefs. (Moderated)
clari.local.headlines	Various local headline summaries. (Moderated)
clari.local.illinois		Local news. (Moderated)
clari.local.illinois.briefs	Local news Briefs. (Moderated)
clari.local.indiana		Local news. (Moderated)
clari.local.indiana.briefs	Local news Briefs. (Moderated)
clari.local.iowa		Local news. (Moderated)
clari.local.iowa.briefs 	Local news Briefs. (Moderated)
clari.local.los_angeles 	Local news. (Moderated)
clari.local.los_angeles.briefs	Local news Briefs. (Moderated)
clari.local.louisiana		Local news. (Moderated)
clari.local.manitoba.briefs	Local news Briefs. (Moderated)
clari.local.maritimes.briefs	Local news Briefs. (Moderated)
clari.local.maryland		Local news. (Moderated)
clari.local.maryland.briefs	Local news Briefs. (Moderated)
clari.local.massachusetts	Local news. (Moderated)
clari.local.massachusetts.briefs		Local news Briefs. (Moderated)
clari.local.michigan		Local news. (Moderated)
clari.local.michigan.briefs	Local news Briefs. (Moderated)
clari.local.minnesota		Local news. (Moderated)
clari.local.minnesota.briefs	Local news Briefs. (Moderated)
clari.local.missouri		Local news. (Moderated)
clari.local.missouri.briefs	Local news Briefs. (Moderated)
clari.local.nebraska		Local news. (Moderated)
clari.local.nebraska.briefs	Local news Briefs. (Moderated)
clari.local.nevada		Local news. (Moderated)
clari.local.nevada.briefs	Local news Briefs. (Moderated)
clari.local.new_england 	Local news. (Moderated)
clari.local.new_hampshire	Local news. (Moderated)
clari.local.new_jersey		Local news. (Moderated)
clari.local.new_jersey.briefs	Local news Briefs. (Moderated)
clari.local.new_york		Local news. (Moderated)
clari.local.new_york.briefs	Local news Briefs. (Moderated)
clari.local.nyc 		Local news (New York City). (Moderated)
clari.local.nyc.briefs		Local news Briefs. (Moderated)
clari.local.ohio		Local news. (Moderated)
clari.local.ohio.briefs 	Local news Briefs. (Moderated)
clari.local.ontario.briefs	Local news Briefs. (Moderated)
clari.local.oregon		Local news. (Moderated)
clari.local.oregon.briefs	Local news Briefs. (Moderated)
clari.local.pennsylvania	Local news. (Moderated)
clari.local.pennsylvania.briefs 	Local news Briefs. (Moderated)
clari.local.saskatchewan.briefs 	Local news Briefs. (Moderated)
clari.local.sfbay		Stories datelined San Francisco Bay Area. (Moderated)
clari.local.texas		Local news. (Moderated)
clari.local.texas.briefs	Local news Briefs. (Moderated)
clari.local.utah		Local news. (Moderated)
clari.local.utah.briefs 	Local news Briefs. (Moderated)
clari.local.virginia+dc 	Local news. (Moderated)
clari.local.virginia+dc.briefs	Local news Briefs. (Moderated)
clari.local.washington		Local news. (Moderated)
clari.local.washington.briefs	Local news Briefs. (Moderated)
clari.local.wisconsin		Local news. (Moderated)
clari.local.wisconsin.briefs	Local news Briefs. (Moderated)
clari.nb.apple		Newsbytes Apple/Macintosh news. (Moderated)
clari.nb.business	Newsbytes business & industry news. (Moderated)
clari.nb.general	Newsbytes general computer news. (Moderated)
clari.nb.govt		Newsbytes legal and government computer news. (Moderated)
clari.nb.ibm		Newsbytes IBM PC World coverage. (Moderated)
clari.nb.review 	Newsbytes new product reviews. (Moderated)
clari.nb.telecom	Newsbytes telecom & online industry news. (Moderated)
clari.nb.top		Newsbytes top stories (crossposted). (Moderated)
clari.nb.trends 	Newsbytes new developments & trends. (Moderated)
clari.nb.unix		Newsbytes Unix news. (Moderated)
clari.net.admin 	Announcements for news admins at ClariNet sites. (Moderated)
clari.net.announce	Announcements for all ClariNet readers. (Moderated)
clari.net.products	New ClariNet products. (Moderated)
clari.net.newusers	Everything you wanted to know about ClariNet.  (Moderated)
clari.net.talk		Discussion of ClariNet -- only unmoderated group.
clari.news.almanac	Daily almanac - quotes, 'this date in history' etc. (Moderated)
clari.news.arts 	Stage, drama & other fine arts. (Moderated)
clari.news.aviation	Aviation industry and mishaps. (Moderated)
clari.news.books	Books & publishing. (Moderated)
clari.news.briefs	Regular news summaries. (Moderated)
clari.news.bulletin	Major breaking stories of the week. (Moderated)
clari.news.canada	News related to Canada. (Moderated)
clari.news.cast 	Regular U.S. news summary. (Moderated)
clari.news.children	Stories related to children and parenting. (Moderated)
clari.news.consumer	Consumer news, car reviews etc. (Moderated)
clari.news.demonstration	Demonstrations around the world. (Moderated)
clari.news.disaster	Major problems, accidents & natural disasters. (Moderated)
clari.news.economy	General economic news. (Moderated)
clari.news.election	News regarding both US and international elections. (Moderated)
clari.news.entertain	Entertainment industry news & features. (Moderated)
clari.news.europe	News related to Europe. (Moderated)
clari.news.features	Unclassified feature stories. (Moderated)
clari.news.fighting	Clashes around the world. (Moderated)
clari.news.flash	Ultra-important once-a-year news flashes. (Moderated)
clari.news.goodnews	Stories of success and survival. (Moderated)
clari.news.gov		General Government related stories. (Moderated)
clari.news.gov.agency	Government agencies, FBI etc. (Moderated)
clari.news.gov.budget	Budgets at all levels. (Moderated)
clari.news.gov.corrupt	Government corruption, kickbacks etc. (Moderated)
clari.news.gov.international	International government-related stories. (Moderated)
clari.news.gov.officials	Government officials & their problems. (Moderated)
clari.news.gov.state	State government stories of national importance. (Moderated)
clari.news.gov.taxes	Tax laws, trials etc. (Moderated)
clari.news.gov.usa	US Federal government news.  (High volume). (Moderated)
clari.news.group	Special interest groups not covered in their own group. (Moderated)
clari.news.group.blacks News of interest to black people. (Moderated)
clari.news.group.gays	Homosexuality & Gay Rights. (Moderated)
clari.news.group.jews	Jews & Jewish interests. (Moderated)
clari.news.group.women	Women's issues and abortion. (Moderated)
clari.news.headlines	Hourly list of the top U.S./World headlines. (Moderated)
clari.news.hot.east_europe	News from Eastern Europe. (Moderated)
clari.news.hot.iraq		Persian Gulf Crisis news. (Moderated)
clari.news.hot.rodney_king	L.A. Riot news. (Moderated)
clari.news.hot.somalia		News from Somalia. (Moderated)
clari.news.hot.ussr		News from the Soviet Union. (Moderated)
clari.news.interest		Human interest stories. (Moderated)
clari.news.interest.animals	Animals in the news. (Moderated)
clari.news.interest.history	Human interest stories & history in the making. (Moderated)
clari.news.interest.people	Famous people in the news. (Moderated)
clari.news.interest.people.column	Daily "People" column -- tidbits on celebs. (Moderated)
clari.news.interest.quirks	Unusual or funny news stories. (Moderated)
clari.news.issues		Stories on major issues not covered in their own group. (Moderated)
clari.news.issues.civil_rights	Freedom, Racism, Civil Rights Issues. (Moderated)
clari.news.issues.conflict	Conflict between groups around the world. (Moderated)
clari.news.issues.family	Family, Child abuse, etc. (Moderated)
clari.news.labor	Unions, strikes. (Moderated)
clari.news.labor.strike Strikes. (Moderated)
clari.news.law		General group for law related issues. (Moderated)
clari.news.law.civil	Civil trials & litigation. (Moderated)
clari.news.law.crime	Major crimes. (Moderated)
clari.news.law.crime.sex	Sex crimes and trials. (Moderated)
clari.news.law.crime.trial	Trials for criminal actions. (Moderated)
clari.news.law.crime.violent	Violent crime & criminals. (Moderated)
clari.news.law.drugs	Drug related crimes & drug stories. (Moderated)
clari.news.law.investigation	Investigation of crimes. (Moderated)
clari.news.law.police	Police & law enforcement. (Moderated)
clari.news.law.prison	Prisons, prisoners & escapes. (Moderated)
clari.news.law.profession	Lawyers, Judges etc. (Moderated)
clari.news.law.supreme	U.S. Supreme court rulings & news. (Moderated)
clari.news.lifestyle	Fashion, leisure etc. (Moderated)
clari.news.military	Military equipment, people & issues. (Moderated)
clari.news.movies	Reviews, news and stories on movie stars. (Moderated)
clari.news.music	Reviews and issues concerning music & musicians. (Moderated)
clari.news.politics	Politicians & politics. (Moderated)
clari.news.politics.people	Politicians & Political Personalities. (Moderated)
clari.news.religion	Religion, religious leaders, televangelists. (Moderated)
clari.news.sex		Sexual issues, sex-related political stories. (Moderated)
clari.news.terrorism	Terrorist actions & related news around the world. (Moderated)
clari.news.top		Top US news stories. (Moderated)
clari.news.top.world	Top international news stories. (Moderated)
clari.news.trends	Surveys and trends. (Moderated)
clari.news.trouble	Less major accidents, problems & mishaps. (Moderated)
clari.news.tv		TV schedules, news, reviews & stars. (Moderated)
clari.news.urgent	Major breaking stories of the day. (Moderated)
clari.news.weather	Weather and temperature reports. (Moderated)
clari.sfbay.briefs	?? (Moderated)
clari.sfbay.entertain	?? (Moderated)
clari.sfbay.fire	?? (Moderated)
clari.sfbay.general	?? (Moderated)
clari.sfbay.misc	?? (Moderated)
clari.sfbay.police	?? (Moderated)
clari.sfbay.roads	?? (Moderated)
clari.sfbay.short	?? (Moderated)
clari.sfbay.weather	?? (Moderated)
clari.sports.baseball	Baseball scores, stories, games, stats. (Moderated)
clari.sports.basketball Basketball coverage. (Moderated)
clari.sports.features	Sports feature stories. (Moderated)
clari.sports.football	Pro football coverage. (Moderated)
clari.sports.hockey	NHL coverage. (Moderated)
clari.sports.misc	Other sports, plus general sports news. (Moderated)
clari.sports.motor	Racing, Motor Sports. (Moderated)
clari.sports.olympic	The Olympic Games. (Moderated)
clari.sports.tennis	Tennis news & scores. (Moderated)
clari.sports.top	Top sports news. (Moderated)
clari.streetprice	Database of direct buyer prices for computer eqpt. (Moderated)
clari.tw.aerospace	Aerospace industry and companies. (Moderated)
clari.tw.computers	Computer industry, applications and developments. (Moderated)
clari.tw.defense	Defense industry issues. (Moderated)
clari.tw.education	Stories involving Universities & colleges. (Moderated)
clari.tw.electronics	Electronics makers and sellers. (Moderated)
clari.tw.environment	Environmental news, hazardous waste, forests. (Moderated)
clari.tw.health 	Disease, medicine, health care, sick celebs. (Moderated)
clari.tw.health.aids	AIDS stories, research, political issues. (Moderated)
clari.tw.misc		General technical industry stories. (Moderated)
clari.tw.nuclear	Nuclear power & waste. (Moderated)
clari.tw.science	General science stories. (Moderated)
clari.tw.space		NASA, Astronomy & spaceflight. (Moderated)
clari.tw.stocks 	Regular reports on computer & technology stock prices. (Moderated)
clari.tw.telecom	Phones, Satellites, Media & general Telecom. (Moderated)

GNU
---
gnUSENET (gnUSENET is Not USENET) is a set of newsgroups that are
gated bi-directionally with the Internet mailing lists of the GNU
Project of the Free Software Foundation.  GNU (GNU's Not Unix) will be
a complete operating system, including application programs, with
freely redistributable source code.  Please use ONLY gnu.misc.discuss
for discussion of topics considered contrary to GNU aims and political
philosophy (e.g., porting of GNU code to Apple machines, usefulness of
intellectual property laws, etc.).

The GNU mailing lists and newsgroups, like the GNU project itself,
exist to promote the freedom to share software.  So please don't use
these newsgroups (or the other GNU lists) to promote or recommend
non-free software.  (Using them to post ordering information is the
ultimate faux pas.)  If there is no free program to do a certain task,
then somebody should write one!

Current groups include:

gnu.announce		Status and announcements from the Project. (Moderated)
gnu.bash.bug		Bourne Again SHell bug reports and suggested fixes. (Moderated)
gnu.chess		Announcements about the GNU Chess program.
gnu.emacs.announce	Announcements about GNU Emacs. (Moderated)
gnu.emacs.bug		GNU Emacs bug reports and suggested fixes. (Moderated)
gnu.emacs.gnews 	News reading under GNU Emacs using Weemba's Gnews.
gnu.emacs.gnus		News reading under GNU Emacs using GNUS (in English).
gnu.emacs.help		User queries and answers.
gnu.emacs.sources	ONLY (please!) C and Lisp source code for GNU Emacs.
gnu.emacs.vm.bug	Bug reports on the Emacs VM mail package.
gnu.emacs.vm.info	Information about the Emacs VM mail package.
gnu.emacs.vms		VMS port of GNU Emacs.
gnu.epoch.misc		The Epoch X11 extensions to Emacs.
gnu.g++.announce	Announcements about the GNU C++ Compiler. (Moderated)
gnu.g++.bug		g++ bug reports and suggested fixes. (Moderated)
gnu.g++.help		GNU C++ compiler (G++) user queries and answers.
gnu.g++.lib.bug 	g++ library bug reports/suggested fixes. (Moderated)
gnu.gcc.announce	Announcements about the GNU C Compiler. (Moderated)
gnu.gcc.bug		GNU C Compiler bug reports/suggested fixes. (Moderated)
gnu.gcc.help		GNU C Compiler (gcc) user queries and answers.
gnu.gdb.bug		gcc/g++ DeBugger bugs and suggested fixes. (Moderated)
gnu.ghostscript.bug	GNU Ghostscript interpreter bugs. (Moderated)
gnu.gnusenet.config	GNU's Not Usenet administration and configuration.
gnu.gnusenet.test	GNU's Not Usenet alternative hierarchy testing.
gnu.groff.bug		Bugs in the GNU roff programs. (Moderated)
gnu.misc.discuss	Serious discussion about GNU and freed software.
gnu.smalltalk.bug	Bugs in GNU Smalltalk. (Moderated)
gnu.utils.bug		GNU utilities bugs (e.g., make, gawk. ls). (Moderated)

Use gnu.emacs.help to discuss software on gnu.emacs.sources and to ask
for sources.  gnu.emacs.sources is archived by many sites and they
want sources ONLY!

The gnu.*.bug groups are pseudo-moderated (that is, the group is
marked moderated so that postings are mailed to prep.ai.mit.edu and
then redistributed to the both the mailing list and newsgroup from
there).  The gnu.*announce groups are all fully moderated.

If one of your USENET feeds cannot provide you with a feed of the
gnUSENET newsgroups, send mail to gnu.gnusenet.config@prep.ai.mit.edu
to ask for a feed.

Questions about GNU can be directed to gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu or:
	Free Software Foundation
	675 Massachusetts Avenue
	Cambridge, MA  02139
	USA
	+1-617-876-3296

IEEE
----
The IEEE newsgroups concern the IEEE -- the Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers.

ieee.announce		General Announcements for IEEE community.
ieee.config		Postings about managing the ieee.* groups.
ieee.general		IEEE - General discussion.
ieee.pcnfs		Discussion & tips on PC-NFS.
ieee.rab.announce	Regional Activities Board - Announcements.
ieee.rab.general	Regional Activities Board - General discussion.
ieee.region1		Region 1 Announcements.
ieee.tab.announce	Technical Activities Board - Announcements.
ieee.tab.general	Technical Activities Board - General discussion.
ieee.tcos		The TCOS newsletter and discussion. (Moderated)
ieee.usab.announce	USAB - Announcements.
ieee.usab.general	USAB - General discussion.

We are willing to distribute these newsgroups via NNTP to any site
that desires to carry them.  If you would like a feed of these
newsgroups, have the newsadmin for your site contact 'usenet@ieee.org'
for a feed.

Inet/DDN
--------
Another alternative hierarchy is the "inet/ddn" distribution.  This
consists of many newsgroups bearing names similar to traditional Usenet
groups and corresponding to Internet discussion lists.	These groups are
circulated using the NNTP transport mechanism amongst sites on the
Internet in an attempt to reduce the number of copies of these groups
flowing through the mail (some sites get these groups via UUCP and
other transport mechanisms, but the volume can be substantial and load
may be significant without a high-speed link).	Further details may be
obtained by writing to Erik Fair (fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu).

Current inet groups are:

comp.ai.edu		Applications of Artificial Intelligence to Education.
comp.ai.vision		Artificial Intelligence Vision Research. (Moderated)
comp.dcom.lans.hyperchannel	Hyperchannel networks within an IP network.
comp.editors		Topics related to computerized text editing.
comp.edu.composition	Writing instruction in computer-based classrooms.
comp.lang.asm370	Programming in IBM System/370 Assembly Language.
comp.lang.clu		The CLU language & related topics.
comp.lang.forth.mac	The CSI MacForth programming environment.
comp.lang.icon		Topics related to the ICON programming language.
comp.lang.idl		IDL (Interface Description Language) related topics.
comp.lang.lisp.franz	The Franz Lisp programming language.
comp.lang.lisp.x	The XLISP language system.
comp.lang.rexx		The REXX command language.
comp.lang.scheme.c	The Scheme language environment.
comp.lang.visual	Visual programming languages.
comp.lsi.cad		Electrical Computer Aided Design.
comp.mail.multi-media	Multimedia Mail.
comp.music		Applications of computers in music research.
comp.networks.noctools.announce Info and announcements about NOC tools. (Moderated)
comp.networks.noctools.bugs	Bug reports and fixes for NOC tools.
comp.networks.noctools.d	Discussion about NOC tools.
comp.networks.noctools.submissions	New NOC tools submissions.
comp.networks.noctools.tools	Descriptions of available NOC tools. (Moderated)
comp.networks.noctools.wanted	Requests for NOC software.
comp.org.isoc.interest	Discussion about the Internet Society.
comp.os.aos		Topics related to Data General's AOS/VS.
comp.os.cpm.amethyst	Discussion of Amethyst, CP/M-80 software package.
comp.os.msdos.4dos	The 4DOS command processor for MS-DOS.
comp.os.rsts		Topics related to the PDP-11 RSTS/E operating system.
comp.os.v		The V distributed operating system from Stanford.
comp.periphs.printers	Information on printers.
comp.protocols.iso.dev-environ	The ISO Development Environment.
comp.protocols.iso.x400 X400 mail protocol discussions.
comp.protocols.iso.x400.gateway X400 mail gateway discussions. (Moderated)
comp.protocols.pcnet	Topics related to PCNET (a personal computer network).
comp.protocols.snmp	The Simple Network Management Protocol.
comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains	Topics related to Domain Style names.
comp.protocols.time.ntp The network time protocol.
comp.security.announce	Announcements from the CERT about security. (Moderated)
comp.soft-sys.andrew	The Andrew system from CMU.
comp.soft-sys.nextstep	The NeXTstep computing environment.
comp.std.announce	Announcements about standards activities. (Moderated)
comp.sys.cdc		Control Data Corporation Computers (e.g., Cybers).
comp.sys.handhelds	Handheld computers and programmable calculators.
comp.sys.intel.ipsc310	Anything related to the Intel 310.
comp.sys.northstar	Northstar microcomputer users.
comp.sys.super		Supercomputers.
comp.sys.ti.explorer	The Texas Instruments Explorer.
comp.sys.zenith 	Heath terminals and related Zenith products.
comp.terminals.bitgraph The BB&N BitGraph Terminal.
comp.terminals.tty5620	AT&T Dot Mapped Display Terminals (5620 and BLIT).
comp.theory		Theoretical Computer Science.
comp.theory.cell-automata	Discussion of all aspects of cellular automata.
comp.theory.dynamic-sys Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems.
comp.theory.self-org-sys	Topics related to self-organization.
comp.unix.cray		Cray computers and their operating systems.
comp.unix.solaris	Discussions about the Solaris operating system.
comp.windows.x.announce X Consortium announcements. (Moderated)
comp.windows.x.motif	The Motif GUI for the X Window System.
news.software.nntp	The Network News Transfer Protocol.
rec.games.vectrex	The Vectrex game system.
rec.mag.fsfnet		A Science Fiction "fanzine." (Moderated)
sci.bio.technology	Any topic relating to biotechnology.
sci.math.num-analysis	Numerical Analysis.
sci.philosophy.meta	Discussions within the scope of "MetaPhilosophy."
soc.culture.esperanto	The neutral international language Esperanto.

ddn.mgt-bulletin	The DDN Management Bulletin from NIC.DDN.MIL (Moderated)
ddn.newsletter		The DDN Newsletter from NIC.DDN.MIL (Moderated)

Info
---
The "info" hierarchy is a collection of mailing lists gatewayed into
news at the University of Illinois.  The lists are selected based on
local interests but have proven popular at a number of sites.  Groups
are removed when they become available via more mainstream
hierarchies.  Sites are encouraged to mark *'ed groups as 'n' in their
active file.  These groups are generally concerned with getting real
work done and readers dislike extraneous postings.  Postings can still
be made by emailing to the listed contact address.  The mailpaths
entry for the hierarchy is
	info.all	%s@uunet.uu.net 	OR
	info.all	%s@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu

info.academic-freedom	Academic freedom in the computer age (caf-talk@eff.org). (Moderated)
info.admin	Administrative messages regarding info.* groups (usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu). (Moderated)
info.big-internet	*Issues facing a huge Internet (big-internet@munnari.oz.au). (Moderated)
info.bind	*The Berkeley BIND server (bind@arpa.berkeley.edu). (Moderated)
info.brl-cad	BRL's Solid Modeling CAD system (cad@brl.mil). (Moderated)
info.bytecounters	*NSstat network analysis program. (bytecounters@venera.isi.edu). (Moderated)
info.convex	Convex Corp machines (info-convex@pemrac.space.swri.edu). (Moderated)
info.firearms	Non-political firearms discussions (firearms@cs.cmu.edu). (Moderated)
info.firearms.politics	Political firearms discussions (firearms-politics@cs.cmu.edu). (Moderated)
info.gated	*Cornell's GATED program (gated-people@devvax.tn.cornell.edu). (Moderated)
info.grass.programmer	GRASS geographic information system programmer issues (grassp-list @moon.cecer.army.mil). (Moderated)
info.grass.user GRASS geographic information system user issues (grassu-list@moon.cecer.army.mil). (Moderated)
info.ietf	*Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) discussions (ietf@venera.isi.edu). (Moderated)
info.ietf.hosts *IETF host requirements discussions (ietf-hosts@nnsc.nsf.net). (Moderated)
info.ietf.isoc	*Internet Society discussions (isoc-interest@relay.sgi.com). (Moderated)
info.ietf.njm	*Jo-MAAN - the Joint Monitoring Access between Adjacent Networks IETF working group (njm@merit.edu). (Moderated)
info.ietf.smtp	*IETF SMTP extension discussions (ietf-smtp@dimacs.rutgers.edu). (Moderated)
info.isode	*The ISO Development Environment package (isode@nic.ddn.mil). (Moderated)
info.jethro-tull	Discussions about Jethro Tull's music (jtull@remus.rutgers.edu). (Moderated)
info.labmgr	Computer lab managers list (labmgr@ukcc.uky.edu). (Moderated)
info.mach	The Mach operating system (info-mach@cs.cmu.edu). (Moderated)
info.mh.workers *MH development discussions (mh-workers@ics.uci.edu). (Moderated)
info.nets	Inter-network connectivity (info-nets@think.com).
info.nsf.grants *NSF grant notes (grants@note.nsf.gov). (Moderated)
info.nsfnet.cert	*Computer Emergency Response Team announcements (nsfnet-cert@merit.edu). (Moderated)
info.nupop	Northwestern University's POP for PCs (nupop@casbah.acns.nwu.edu). (Moderated)
info.nysersnmp	*The SNMP software distributed by PSI (nysersnmp@nisc.nyser.net). (Moderated)
info.osf	*OSF Electronic Bulletin mailings (roma@uiuc.edu). (Moderated)
info.pem-dev	*IETF privacy enhanced mail discussions (pem-dev@tis.com). (Moderated)
info.ph 	Qi, ph, sendmail/phquery discussions (info-ph@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu). (Moderated)
info.rfc	*Announcements of newly released RFCs (rfc-request@nic.ddn.mil). (Moderated)
info.slug	Care and feeding of Symbolics Lisp machines (slug@iu.ai.sri.com). (Moderated)
info.snmp	*SNMP (Simple Gateway/Network Monitoring Protocol) (snmp@nisc.nyser.net). (Moderated)
info.solbourne		Discussions & info about Solbourne computers (info-solbourne@acsu.buffalo.edu). (Moderated)
info.sun-managers	*Sun-managers digest (sun-managers@rice.edu). (Moderated)
info.sun-nets	*Sun-nets (nee Sun Spots) digest (sun-nets@umiacs.umd.edu). (Moderated)
info.theorynt	Theory list (theorynt@vm1.nodak.edu). (Moderated)
info.unix-sw	Software available for anonymous FTP (unix-sw-request@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil). (Moderated)
info.wisenet	Women In Science and Engineering NETwork (wisenet@uicvm.uic.edu). (Moderated)

K12
---
K12Net is a loosely-organized, totally decentralized network of school
based/oriented "electronic bulletin board systems" (BBS's) throughout
North America, Australia, and Europe that share curriculum-related
message bases or "echo forums," classroom-to-classroom projects, and
educational files -- making them available to students and educators
at no cost and usually on a local phone call.

K12Net was born in the summer of 1990 as a collection of FidoNet
echomail conferences.  It was created by teachers so that they and
their students can use networking technology to advance education in
the 'K12' arena.  On FidoNet, it spans North America, goes through
Europe to the Soviet Union, wanders around Australia, etc.

As an experiment, m2xenix.psg.com is gating the echos (from
puddle.fidonet.org aka 1:105/42) into Usenet newsgroups and feeding
them to uunet.uu.net where they are available to all and sundry.  The
initial name mapping is as follows:

k12.chat.elementary	Informal discussion among elementary students, grades K-5.
k12.chat.junior 	Informal discussion among students in grades 6-8.
k12.chat.senior 	Informal discussion among high school students.
k12.chat.teacher	Informal discussion among teachers in grades K-12.
k12.ed.art		Art curriculum in K-12 education.
k12.ed.business 	Business education curriculum in grades K-12.
k12.ed.comp.literacy	Teaching computer literacy in grades K-12.
k12.ed.health-pe	Health and Physical Education curriculum in grades K-12.
k12.ed.life-skills	Home Economics and Career education in grades K-12.
k12.ed.math		Mathematics curriculum in K-12 education.
k12.ed.music		Music and Performing Arts curriculum in K-12 education.
k12.ed.science		Science curriculum in K-12 education.
k12.ed.soc-studies	Social Studies and History curriculum in K-12 education.
k12.ed.special		K-12 education for students w/ handicaps or special needs.
k12.ed.tag		K-12 education for talented and gifted students.
k12.ed.tech		Industrial Arts and vocational education in grades K-12.
k12.lang.art		Language Arts curriculum in K-12 education.
k12.lang.deutsch-eng	Bilingual German/English practice with native speakers.
k12.lang.esp-eng	Bilingual Spanish/English practice with native speakers.
k12.lang.francais	Bilingual French/English practice with native speakers.
k12.lang.russian	Bilingual Russian/English practice with native speakers.

The k12.chat.* groups contain inter-student chat, and tend to be,
shall we say, uninteresting to many adults, and a bit voluminous.

For further information, contact Janet Murray,
janet.murray@f23.n105.z1.fidonet.org.

RELCOM
------
Relcom.* is the hierarchy of Russian-language newsgroups distributed
mostly on the territory of the former Soviet Union (non-CIS countries
included).  These groups are available in Europe and Northern America;
due to the 8-bit encoding (KOI-8) of Cyrillic letters, minor software
modifications may be required.

Newsgroups under the hierarchy relcom.commerce contain classified
advertisements and are relatively high-volume; the nature of the
information distributed in those groups may contradict policy of some
networks.  However, they may be valuable for researchers and
businessmen interested in the first-hand information on the economics
of FSU countries.

Eugene Peskin <eugene@rd.relcom.msk.su> is the Relcom staff member
responsible for netnews -- contact him for more information.

relcom.ads			Non-commercial ads. (Moderated)
relcom.archives 		Messages about new items on archive sites.
relcom.archives.d		Discussions on file servers, archives.
relcom.bbs			BBS news.
relcom.commerce.audio-video	Audio & video equipment.
relcom.commerce.chemical	Chemical production.
relcom.commerce.construction	Construction materials and equipment.
relcom.commerce.consume 	Cosmetics, parfumes, dresses, shoes.
relcom.commerce.computers	Computer hardware.
relcom.commerce.energy		Gas, coal, oil, fuel, generators, etc.
relcom.commerce.estate		Real estate.
relcom.commerce.food		Food & drinks (including alcoholic).
relcom.commerce.household	Everything for house -- furniture, freezers, ovens, etc.
relcom.commerce.infoserv	Information services.
relcom.commerce.jobs		Jobs offered/wanted.
relcom.commerce.machinery	Machinery, plant equipment.
relcom.commerce.medicine	Medical services, equipment, drugs.
relcom.commerce.metals		Metals and metal products.
relcom.commerce.money		Credits, deposits, currency.
relcom.commerce.orgtech 	Office equipment.
relcom.commerce.other		Miscelannia.
relcom.commerce.software	Software.
relcom.commerce.stocks		Stocks and bonds.
relcom.commerce.talk		Discussions about commercial groups.
relcom.commerce.tobacco 	Cigarettes and tobacco.
relcom.commerce.transport	Vehicles and spare parts.
relcom.comp.binaries		Binary codes of computer programs.(Moderated)
relcom.comp.lang.pascal 	Using of Pascal programming language.
relcom.comp.os.os2		FIDOnet area, OS/2 operational system.
relcom.comp.os.vms		VMS operational system.
relcom.exnet			Discussions on ExNet electronic exchange.
relcom.exnet.quote		ExNet quotes.
relcom.fido.flirt		FIDOnet, just talking of love.
relcom.fido.ru.hacker		FIDOnet, hackers and crackers (legal!).
relcom.fido.ru.modem		Inter-network discussion on modems.
relcom.fido.ru.networks 	Inter-network discussion of global nets.
relcom.fido.ru.unix		Inter-network challenge to OS Unix.
relcom.fido.ru.strack		FIDOnet, digitized sound.
relcom.fido.su.books		FIDOnet, for book readers and lovers.
relcom.fido.su.c-c++		FIDOnet, C & C++ language.
relcom.fido.su.dbms		FIDOnet, database management systems.
relcom.fido.su.general		FIDOnet, about everything and nothing.
relcom.fido.su.hardw		FIDOnet, computer hardware.
relcom.fido.su.magic		FIDOnet, magic and occult sciences.
relcom.fido.su.softw		FIDOnet, software in general.
relcom.fido.su.tolkien		FIDOnet, creations of J.R.R.T Tolkien.
relcom.fido.su.virus		FIDOnet, viruses and vaccines.
relcom.humor			Ha-ha-ha. Jokes, you know them, funny.
relcom.infomarket.quote 	Ex-USSR exchanges's quotes /ASMP/. (Moderated)
relcom.infomarket.talk		Discussion on market development /ASMP/. (Moderated)
relcom.jusinf			Information on laws by "Justicinform". (Moderated)
relcom.kids			About kids.
relcom.lan			Inter-network discussion on local area networks.
relcom.maps			Relcom maps.
relcom.msdos			MS-DOS software.
relcom.music			Music lovers.
relcom.netnews			Announcements and articles important for all netters.
relcom.netnews.big		General BIG articles.
relcom.newusers 		Q&A of new Relcom users.
relcom.penpals			To find friends, colleagues, etc.
relcom.politics 		Political discussions.
relcom.postmasters		For RELCOM postmasters, official.(Moderated)
relcom.postmasters.d		Discussion of postmaster's troubles and bright ideas.
relcom.relarn.general		Scientific academical subnet RELARN:general issues.(Moderated)
relcom.renews			Net magazine RENEWS. (Moderated).
relcom.sources			Software sources.
relcom.spbnews			Political & economic news digest by SPB-News Agency. (Moderated)
relcom.talk			Unfettered talk.
relcom.tcpip			TCP/IP protocols and their implementation.
relcom.terms			Discussion of various terms and terminology.
relcom.test			"Wow, does it really work?".
relcom.wtc			Commercial proposals of World Trade Centers.(Moderated)
relcom.x			X Windows discussion.

U3B
---
Groups dealing with AT&T 3B{2,5,15,20,4000} computers -- everything
except for the UNIX PC/3B1.  Both uunet and ames carry these groups.

u3b.config	3B Distribution configuration.
u3b.misc	3B Miscellaneous Discussions.
u3b.sources	Sources for AT&T 3B systems.
u3b.tech	3B Technical Discussions.
u3b.test	3B Distribution Testing.


VMSnet
------
This hierarchy is for topics of interest to VAX/VMS users (but not
necessarily VMS-specific). These groups are a project of the VMSnet working
group of the VAX SIG of the US Chapter of DECUS (the Digital Equipment
Computer User's Society). They are carried by most major usenet news sites,
and almost half of all netnews sites. To find a feed, contact the system
managers of news sites near you, and/or post to a local or regional
newsgroup and ask if anyone in the area is carrying the VMSnet newsgroups.

If you have tried these alternatives and still can not find a site in your
local area that carries the VMSnet groups, you can send mail to the VMSnet
Network Coordinator, currently Terry Poot <tp@mccall.com>, who will attempt
to assist you in finding a feed for the groups. Alternatively, you can send
mail to the VMSnet mailing list <vmsnet@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu>, which is
also gatewayed to the vmsnet.uucp newsgroup and ask for help.

In either case, be sure to state where you are geographically, and what
your constraints are. For instance, if you can only place local phone
calls, be sure to say just what areas are a local call for you. Also
describe your network connectivity (what networks you are on, your uucp
neighbors, etc.).

Here is a recent list of VMSnet newsgroups. NOTE: this is NOT the
definitive list of VMSnet newsgroups. The current definitive list is always
the most recent checkgroups posting in vmsnet.admin. It is posted monthly
or whenever the set of newsgroups is changed.

vmsnet.admin	Administration of the VMSnet newsgroups.
vmsnet.alpha	Discussion about Alpha AXP architecture, systems, porting, etc.
vmsnet.announce General announcements of interest to all. (Moderated)
vmsnet.announce.newusers	Orientation info for new users. (Moderated)
vmsnet.decus.journal	The DECUServe Journal. (Moderated)
vmsnet.decus.lugs	Discussion of DECUS Local User Groups and related issues.
vmsnet.employment	Jobs sought/offered, workplace and employment related issues.
vmsnet.internals	VMS internals, MACRO-32, Bliss, etc., gatewayed to MACRO32 list.
vmsnet.mail.misc	Other electronic mail software.
vmsnet.mail.pmdf	PMDF email system, gatewayed to ipmdf mailing list.
vmsnet.mail.mx	MX email system, gatewayed to MX mailing list.
vmsnet.misc	General VMS topics not covered elsewhere.
vmsnet.networks.desktop.misc	Other desktop integration software.
vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks	DEC Pathworks desktop integration software.
vmsnet.networks.management.decmcc	DECmcc and related software.
vmsnet.networks.management.misc Other network management solutions.
vmsnet.networks.misc	General networking topics not covered elsewhere.
vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.cmu-tek	CMU-TEK TCP/IP package, gatewayed to cmu-tek-tcp+@andrew.cmu.edu.
vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.misc	Other TCP/IP solutions for VMS.
vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet TGV's Multinet TCP/IP, gatewayed to info-multinet.
vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.tcpware	Discussion of Process Software's TCPWARE TCP/IP software.
vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.ucx	DEC's VMS/Ultrix Connection (or TCP/IP services for VMS) product.
vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.wintcp	The Wollongong Group's WIN-TCP TCP/IP software.
vmsnet.pdp-11	PDP-11 hardware and software, gatewayed to info-pdp11.
vmsnet.sources	Source code postings ONLY. (Moderated)
vmsnet.sources.d	Discussion about or requests for sources.
vmsnet.sources.games	Recreational software postings.
vmsnet.sysmgt	VMS system management.
vmsnet.test	Test messages.
vmsnet.tpu	TPU language and applications, gatewayed to info-tpu.
vmsnet.uucp	DECUS uucp software, gatewayed to vmsnet mailing list.
vmsnet.vms-posix	Discussion about VMS POSIX.
--
Gene Spafford
Software Engineering Research Center & Dept. of Computer Sciences
Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-1398
Internet:  spaf@cs.purdue.edu	phone:	(317) 494-7825

