Copyright © 1990-2008 by Prof. Timo Salmi
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The lists of the various newsgroups annotated with one-line
topic descriptions are contained in
I have made a list of my own favorite newsgroups selection, should you be interested. Its address is http://lipas.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/news.html
Read the news.newusers.questions newsgroup for awhile. More pointers to newsgroup lists will (re)appear there sooner or later, such as ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group/ (long).
In this day and age there is a lot of information available by WWW, also about newsgroups. The disadvantage here is that there is no guarantee how long the links will stay current. The links are at the end of this page.
As most net citizens know Google has a huge news repository of old news postings. Naturally their service can also be used to identify newsgroup hierarchies and newsgroups. The simplest starting point is maybe Google Groups.
A related question asked often on the Usenet news is how many newsgroups are there. No one knows, but the estimates of the number of international newsgroups range to well over 40000 in 1998. Furthermore, I have seen an ISP advertise an access to over 80000 newsgroups at the start of year 2000.
The list of newsgroups that your provider is offering may
occasionally be much more important information than what newsgroups
in general exist. Now finding out that information is highly
dependent on your environment. For example, in the UNIX rn and
similar news reader programs see the ~/.newsrc contents for the
available newsgroups or in trn yank all the newsgroups to the fore.
In Netscape Collabra (Netscape Navigator's Message Center) click the
Subscribe button and proceed from there. And so on.
