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A Few Words about Usenet News and Altnet
Introductory information that should be read before participating in Usenet.
http://www.greenparty.org/~cls/usenet/ |
About News-Posting, by J R Stockton
Explanation of Usenet terms and tips on how to write and post to Usenet.
http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/news-use.htm |
Alternate Usenet TOP 1000
An alternate to the Freenix Top 1000 site.
http://news.anthologeek.net |
Amiga Network News
Amiga newsgroup summaries.
http://www.ann.lu |
Authoritative active file
Maintained by David Lawrence at isc.org. David has authority over the "Big 8" hierarchies on Usenet. This active file is a complete and current list of newsgroups available. Not limited to the "Big 8" groups only.
ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/active |
Computer Partners
Brief explanation of newsgroups and instructions for using Netscape Navigator or Outlook Express for reading newsgroups.
http://www.compar.com/news/news2vs3.html |
Europa.*
International newsgroups hierarchy for topics covering the continent of Europe.
http://www.europa.usenet.eu.org/ |
Free Advice on Usenet News
An editorial introduction to Usenet.
http://www.islandnet.com/~tmc/html/articles/usentnws.htm |
Freedom Knights of Usenet
Dedicated to free speech, and its implementation on Usenet, an alternative point of view. Information about Usenet sites of Virtue and surviving UDPs.
http://www.jetcafe.org/~dave/usenet/ |
Good Net Keeping Seal of Approval
Standards for Usenet software. If software authors design software that conforms to these standards, Usenet participants would more naturally conform to standard netiquette.
http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Ejs/gnksa/index.html |
Internet Software Consortium
An FTP site with archives of various Usenet related documents. Includes active files, control messages, list of Usenet hierarchies.
ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/ |
Interview with Brad Templeton
Brad Templeton was the founder, publisher and CEO of ClariNet the electronic news service on the Internet.
http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds2-3/templeton.html |
Italia.* Usenet hierarchy
List of sites carrying Italia.* hierarchy. Config files for your newsserver. Complete listing of all newsgroups in the Italia.* hierarchy their charters.
http://news.cineca.it/italia/index-eng.html |
Jukka Korpela's Material about Usenet
Selection of links to material on Usenet. Editorials by Jukka explaining the workings of Usenet and the reasons for certain conventions.
http://www.malibutelecom.com/yucca/usenet/ |
Kevin Butler's Simple Guide to Newsgroups
A brief history about the origin of newsgroups and tips on how to participate in newsgroups.
http://members.tripod.com/~Kevin_Butler/newsgroups.html |
Links to Professor Timo Salmi's FAQ material
Timo Salmi has extensive advice on how to participate effectively in Usenet. Topics include: Proper quoting, proper signatures, how to respond to "crackpots", where to put test postings and other important topics.
http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/tsfaq.html |
Master List of Newsgroup Hierarchies
A complete list of newsgroup hierarchies and their descriptions.
http://www.magma.ca/~leisen/mlnh/ |
Mib Software Usenet Rapid Knowledge Transfer
Information about Usenet for users and developers.
http://www.mibsoftware.com/userkt/userkt.html |
Musenet: Newsgroup Reviews and Beyond
Reviews of a few assorted Usenet newsgroups, primarily in the alt.* hierarchy. The webmaster will take suggestions on groups to review.
http://www.best.com/~cattekin/ |
Netizens Netbook
On the History and Impact of the Net.
http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/ |
Netscan Newsgroup Tracker
Social statistics on Usenet groups including number of posts and crossposts.
http://netscan.research.microsoft.com/ |
Netter's Abbreviation/Acronym Glossary
Comprehensive list of abbreviations used on Usenet.
http://piology.org/yabla.txt |
news2mail.com
Have the news from Usenet newsgroups delivered to your mail-inbox.
http://www.news2mail.com |
Rules for posting to Usenet
Brief introduction to Usenet and appropriate guidelines to follow for posting.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/posting-rules/part1/ |
Smiley-List
Comprehensive list of smilies used on Usenet.
http://piology.org/smiley.txt |
smr-usenet.com
Usenet information, help, downloads, reviews and tutorials. Discussion Forum.
http://smr-usenet.com |
Snoozenet
Tim Pierce's New's Hacking page. Includes links to RFC 977, 1036, son-of-1036.
http://www.newsreaders.com/misc/twpierce/news/ |
SOUP: Simple Offline USENET Packet
Defines the SOUP Format. Primarily of historic interest.
http://www.yak.net/combee/soup12.html |
The news.groups.reviews Official Homepage
Submission guidelines and archived reviews from news.groups.reviews, a newsgroup carrying reader-written reviews of other newsgroups.
http://www.bauser.com/news.groups.reviews/ |
The Swedish Usenet Administration
Information for news administrators about the se.* hierarchy, including public PGP key and current checkgroups message. Also contains information on how to create groups in the se.* hierarchy and how to get a feed.
http://www.usenet-se.net/index_eng.html |
The Usenet Newbie Project
Learn everything about the Usenet in one place. How to access it, how to read posts, explanation of technical terms and acronyms and how to create your own Newsgroups.
http://tgos.org/newbie |
Top 1000 Usenet Sites
Statistics on Usenet sites calculated by taking a sample of news articles on many sites. Participation open to all Usenet sites, no matter how small. Stats available through mailing list or on this site.
http://www.freenix.org/reseau/top1000/ |
Usenet II
An attempt to create a new Usenet based on the concept of "sound sites". The goal is to create a new Usenet as free as possible from spam.
http://www.usenet2.org/ |
Usenet Oldnews Archive
All Usenet news from May 1981 to May 1982. Oldest known Usenet news.
http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ |
User's Guide to the Changing Usenet
Explains how RFDs (Requests For Discussion) and CFVs (Call For Votes) can be used to change a Usenet newsgroup. Gives tips on how to stay abreast of changes in newsgroups and how to be an active participant.
http://cil-www.oce.orst.edu:8080/users.guide |
W-net : Everything About Usenet
Usenet basics. Learn about newsgroups from scratch. Learn how to get banned Newsgroups. Partial list of Newsgroups.
http://www.geocities.com/ski_usenet |
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