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- From: spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
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- Subject: Alternative Newsgroup Hierarchies, Part I
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- Date: 26 Apr 1993 00:02:08 -0500
- Organization: Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ.
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- Summary: First of two postings. This part describes the following
- alternate hierarchies: alt, bionet, bit, biz
- Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu news.lists:2494 news.groups:70368 news.announce.newusers:1083 news.announce.newgroups:3256 news.answers:7891
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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)
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-
- 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.
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- 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
-