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┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Group and Network explanations │
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When you review our various conference areas beyond the first 150 you may
become confused unless you are already familiar with the various
networks and their coverage. This bulletin is not intended to be a
tutorial on these various networks, but rather a brief summary of each.
UUNET or Usenet
Usenet offers a traditional set of "newsgroups" or topics which are
carried by most UUNET sites around the world.
UUNET ALTERNATE topics
These news groups often have restricted spheres of interest, high
volume or a different set of administrative rules. They are available
through UUNET but are not carried by all sites.
BIONET
Offers topics of interest to biologists.
BIZ
These news groups are carried and propagated by sites interested in the
world of business products around them - in particular, computer
products and services.
GNU or gnUSENET
These groups are gated with the Internet mailing lists of the GNU
Project of the Free Software Foundation. GNU (GNU's Not Unix) will be a
complete OS, including application programs, with freely distributable
source code.
INET/DNN
Consists of many newsgroups bearing names similar to traditional Usenet
groups and corresponding to Internet discussion lists.
K12NET
K12Net is loosely-organized, decentralized network of school
based/oriented "electronic bulletin board systems" throughout North
America, Australia and Europe that share curriculum-related message
bases or echo forums, classroom to classroom projects and education
files.
VMSNET
Topics of interest to VAX/VMS users.