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From: s...@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford)
Date: 7 Dec 91 02:13:41 GMT
Local: Fri, Dec 6 1991 9:13 pm
Subject: Alternative Newsgroup Hierarchies, Part I
Archive-name: alt-hierarchies/part1
Original-author: hoptoad!gnu (John Gilmore) and s...@purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
Last-change: 30 Nov 91 by s...@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 finding 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;
2.10.3 or 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!uunet-request 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 directly to me.

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

alt.activism            Activities for activists.
alt.activism.d          A place to discuss issues in alt.activism.
alt.alien.visitors      Space Aliens on Earth!  Abduction!  Gov't Coverup!
alt.angst               Anxiety in the modern world.
alt.aquaria             The aquarium & related as a hobby.
alt.artcom              Artistic Community, arts & communication.
alt.atheism             Discussions of atheism.
alt.backrubs            Lower...to the right...aaaah!
alt.bbs                 Computer BBS systems & software.
alt.bbs.ads             Ads for various computer BBS's.
alt.bbs.internet        BBS systems accessible via the Internet.
alt.bbs.lists           Postings of regional BBS listings.
alt.bbs.lists.d         Discussion about regional BBS listings.
alt.bbs.waffle          The Waffle UUCP BBS.
alt.beer                Good for what ales ya.
alt.binaries.multimedia Sound, text and graphics data rolled in one.
alt.binaries.pictures   Additional volume in the form of huge image files.
alt.binaries.pictures.d Discussion of postings to alt.binaries.pictures.
alt.books.technical     Discussion of technical books.
alt.boomerang           Technology and use of the boomerang.
alt.brother-jed         The born-again minister touring US campuses.
alt.california          The state and the state of mind.
alt.callahans           Callahan's bar for puns and fellowship.
alt.cd-rom              Discussions of optical storage media.
alt.censorship          Discussion about restricting speech/press.
alt.child-support       Raising children in a split family.
alt.co-ops              Discussion about co-operatives.
alt.cobol               Use of the programming language COBOL.
alt.comp.acad-freedom.news      Academic freedom issues related to computers. (Moderated)
alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk      Academic freedom issues related to computers.
alt.config              Alternative subnet discussions and connectivity.
alt.conspiracy          Be paranoid -- they're out to get you.
alt.cosuard             Council of Sysops & Users Against Rate Discrimination.
alt.cult-movies         Movies with a cult following (e.g., Rocky Horror PS).
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.dcom.telecom        Discussion of telecommunications technology.
alt.desert-shield       Events in the Middle East, esp. Kuwait.
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.dev.null            The ultimate in moderated newsgroups. (Moderated)
alt.discrimination      Quotas, affirmative action, bigotry, persecution.
alt.dreams              What do they mean?
alt.drugs               Recreational pharmaceuticals and related flames.
alt.emusic              Ethnic, exotic, electronic, elaborate, etc. music. *
alt.evil                Tales from the dark side.
alt.exotic-music        Exotic music discussions. *
alt.fan.dan-quayle      For discussion of the US Vice President.
alt.fan.dave_barry      Electronic fan club for humorist Dave Barry.
alt.fan.dice-man        Fans of Andrew Dice Clay.
alt.fan.furry           Fans of funny animals, ala Steve Gallacci's book.
alt.fan.howard-stern    Fans of the abrasive radio & TV personality.
alt.fan.mike-jittlov    Electronic fan club for animator Mike Jittlov.
alt.fan.monty-python    Electronic fan club for those wacky Brits.
alt.fan.warlord         Mocking net.gods and net.weenies.
alt.fandom.cons         Announcements of conventions (SciFi and others).
alt.fandom.misc         Other topics for fans of various kinds.
alt.fishing             Fishing as a hobby and sport.
alt.flame               Alternative, literate, pithy, succinct screaming.
alt.flame.spelling      Fore piple whoe kant spel.
alt.folklore.computers  Stories & anecdotes about computers (some true!).
alt.folklore.urban      Urban legends, ala Jan Harold Brunvand.
alt.forgery             One place for all forgeries--crossposting encouraged.
alt.fractals            Fractals in math, graphics, and art.
alt.games.gb            The Galactic Bloodshed conquest game.
alt.games.xtrek         All about a Star Trek game for X.
alt.gothic              The gothic movement: things mournful and dark.
alt.gourmand            Recipes & cooking info. (Moderated)
alt.graphics.pixutils   Discussion of pixmap utilities.
alt.great-lakes         Discussions of the Great Lakes and adjacent places.
alt.hackers             Descriptions of projects currently under development. (Moderated)
alt.horror              The horror genre.
alt.humor.oracle        The semi-legendary Usenet Oracle speaks.
alt.hypertext           Discussion of hypertext -- uses, transport, etc.
alt.individualism       Philosophies where individual rights are paramount.
alt.industrial          The Industrial Computing Society.
alt.irc                 Internet Relay Chat material.
alt.kids-talk           A place for the pre-college set on the net.
alt.lang.asm            Assembly languages of various flavours.
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.teco           The TECO editor language.
alt.magic               For discussion about stage magic.
alt.magick              For discussion about supernatural arts.
alt.models              Model building, design, etc.
alt.msdos.programmer    For the serious MS/DOS programmer (no forsale ads).
alt.mud.german          For Germn-speaking MUD-er's.
alt.mud.lp              The LP multi-user dungeon.
alt.native              Issues for and about native Americans.
alt.pagan               Discussions about paganism & religion.
alt.paranormal          Phenomena which are not scientifically explicable.
alt.party               Parties, celebration and general debauchery.
alt.peeves              Discussion of peeves & related.
alt.personals           Geek seeks Dweeb. Object: low-level interfacing.
alt.personals.bondage   Are you tied up this evening?
alt.politics.homosexuality         As the name implies
alt.postmodern          Postmodernism, semiotics, deconstruction, and the like.
alt.privacy             Privacy issues in cyberspace.
alt.prose               Postings of original writings, fictional & otherwise.
alt.prose.d             Discussions about postings in alt.prose.
alt.psychoactives       Better living through chemistry.
alt.rap                 For fans of rap music.
alt.rap-gdead           Fans of The Grateful Dead and Rap.  Really.
alt.recovery            For people in recovery programs (e.g., AA, ACA, GA).
alt.religion.adm3a      Flaming the merits of the Sigler-Lear ADM3A.
alt.religion.computers  People who believe computing is "real life."
alt.religion.emacs      Emacs.  Umacs.  We all macs.
alt.religion.scientology        Friends and foes of L. Ron Hubbard.
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.metal   For the headbangers on the net.
alt.rock-n-roll.metal.heavy     Non-sissyboy metal bands.
alt.romance             Discussion about the romantic side of love.
alt.rush-limbaugh       Fans of the conservative activist radio announcer.
alt.save.the.earth      Environmentalist causes.
alt.sci.astro.fits      Technical matters of Flexible Image Transport Systems.
alt.security            Security issues on computer systems.
alt.security.index      Pointers to good stuff in alt.security. (Moderated)
alt.sewing              Working with needle and thread.
alt.sex                 Postings of a prurient nature.
alt.sex.bestiality      Happiness is a warm puppy.
alt.sex.bondage         Tie me, whip me, make me read the net!
alt.sex.motss           Jesse Helms would not subscribe to this group.
alt.sex.movies          Discussing the ins and outs of certain movies.
alt.sex.pictures        Gigabytes of copyright violations.
alt.sex.pictures.d      Discussing alt.sex.pictures copyright violations.
alt.sex.pictures.male   Copyright violations featuring mostly males.
alt.sex.pictures.female Copyright violations featuring mostly females.
alt.sexual.abuse.recovery       Helping others deal with traumatic experiences.
alt.skate               Rollerskating and rollerblades.
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.snowmobiles         High-horsepower sleds in the powder.
alt.society.ati         The Activist Times Digest.  (Moderated)
alt.society.cu-digest   Postings about the Computer Underground. (Moderated)
alt.sources             Alternative source code, unmoderated. Caveat Emptor.
alt.sources.amiga       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.sport.bungee        Like alt.suicide with rubber bands.
alt.sport.paintball     The game/art/sport of splatball.
alt.startrek.creative   Stories and parodies related to Star Trek.
alt.stupidity           Discussion about stupid newsgroups.
alt.suicide.holiday     Talk of why suicides increase at holidays.
alt.support             Dealing with emotional situations & experiences.
alt.surfing             Riding the ocean waves.
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.sun             Technical discussion of Sun Microsystems products.
alt.sys.unisys          Burroughs, Sperry, CT, etc. discussions.
alt.tasteless           Truly disgusting.
alt.tennis              The game & sport of tennis.
alt.test                Alternative subnetwork testing.
alt.text.dwb            Discussion of the AT&T Documenter's WorkBench.
alt.thrash              Thrashlife.
alt.toolkits.xview      The X windows XView toolkit.
alt.tv.antagonists      Fans of the new "The Antagonists" TV show.
alt.tv.muppets          Fans of the Muppets, TV shows & movies.
alt.tv.prisoner         The Prisoner television series from years ago.
alt.tv.simpsons         Don't have a cow, man!
alt.tv.tiny-toon        Dicussion about the "Tiny Toon Adventures" show.
alt.tv.twin-peaks       Discussion about the popular (and unusual) TV show.
alt.usage.english       English grammar, word usages, and related topics.
alt.wais                The Wide Area Information Service.

Submissions to the moderated alt.gourmand group should be mailed to
reci...@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid).  alt.society.cu-digest
submissions should be mailed to tk0j...@niu.bitnet or
c...@chinacat.unicom.com (Jim Thomas and Gordon Meyer).

* alt.emusic and alt.exotic-music are aliased together at many sites.

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.

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

bionet.agroforestry             Discussion of Agroforestry.
bionet.biology.computational    Computer and mathematical applications. (Moderated)
bionet.general                  General BIOSCI discussion.
bionet.genome.chrom22           Discussion of Chromosome 22.
bionet.genome.arabidopsis       Information about the Arabidopsis project.
bionet.jobs                     Scientific Job opportunities.
bionet.journals.contents        Contents of biology journal publications.
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.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.gene-org          How genes are organized on chromosomes.
bionet.molbio.genome-program    Discussion of Human Genome Project issues.
bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts    Requests for information and lab reagents.
bionet.molbio.proteins          Research on proteins and protein databases.
bionet.neuroscience             Research issues in the neurosciences.
bionet.population-bio           Technical discussions about population biology.
bionet.sci-resources            Information about funding agencies, etc.
bionet.software                 Information about software for biology.
bionet.software.sources         Software Source relating to biology. (Moderated)
bionet.users.addresses          Who's who in Biology.

Submissions to bionet.software.sources should be mailed to
software-sour...@genbank.bio.net (Eliot Lear).

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.advise-l     User Services List.
bit.listserv.advanc-l     Geac Advanced Integrated Library System Users.
bit.listserv.aix-l        IBM AIX Discussion List.
bit.listserv.allmusic     Discussions on all forms of Music.
bit.listserv.apple2-l     Apple II List.
bit.listserv.applicat     Applications under BITNET.
bit.listserv.asm370       IBM 370 Assembly Programming Discuss.
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.candle-l     Candle Products Discussion List.
bit.listserv.cdromlan     CD-ROM on Local Area Networks.
bit.listserv.christia     Practical Christian Life.
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.cumrec-l     CUMREC-L Administrative computer use.
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.dbase-l      Discussion on the use of the dBase IV.
bit.listserv.db2-l        DB2 Data Base Discussion List.
bit.listserv.disarm-l     Disarmament Discussion List.
bit.listserv.domain-l     Domains Discussion Group.
bit.listserv.earntech     EARN Technical Group.
bit.listserv.edi-l        Electronic Data Interchange Issues.
bit.listserv.edpolyan     Professionals and Students Discussing Education.
bit.listserv.edtech       EDTECH - Educational Technology. (Moderated)
bit.listserv.emusic-l     Electronic Music Discussion List.
bit.listserv.envbeh-l     Forum on Environment and Human Behavior.
bit.listserv.erl-l        Educational Research List (TCSVM).
bit.listserv.esl-l        DECUS Education Software Library Discussion L.
bit.listserv.ethics-l     Discussion of Ethics in Computing.
bit.listserv.ethology     Ethology List.
bit.listserv.film-l       Film making and reviews List.
bit.listserv.fnord-l      New Ways of Thinking 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.gis-l        Geographic Information Systems Discussion List.
bit.listserv.govdoc-l     Discussion of Government Document Is.
bit.listserv.gutnberg     GUTNBERG Discussion List.
bit.listserv.hellas       The Hellenic Discussion List. (Moderated)
bit.listserv.history      History.
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.icu-l        Instruction Computing Update Newsletter List.
bit.listserv.info-gcg     INFO-GCG: GCG Genetics Software Discussion.
bit.listserv.infonets     Infonets Redistribution.
bit.listserv.ingrafx      Information Graphics.
bit.listserv.innopac      Innovative Interfaces Public Access Catalog.
bit.listserv.ioob-l       Industrial Psychology.
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.license      Software Licensing List.
bit.listserv.linkfail     Link failure announcements.
bit.listserv.literary     Discussions about Literature.
bit.listserv.lstsrv-l     Forum on LISTSERV release 1.6.
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 & Writing).
bit.listserv.medlib-l     Medical Libraries Discussion List.
bit.listserv.mednews      MEDNEWS - Health Info-Com Network Newsletter.
bit.listserv.netnws-l     NETNWS-L Netnews 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.novell       Novell LAN Interest Group.
bit.listserv.omrscan      OMR Scanner 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.power-l      POWER-L IBM RS/6000 POWER Family.
bit.listserv.rscs-l       VM/RSCS Mailing List.
bit.listserv.relusr-l     Relay Users Forum.
bit.listserv.rexxlist     REXX Programming Discussion List.
bit.listserv.rhetoric     Rhetoric, social movements, persuasion.
bit.listserv.rscsmods     The RSCS modifications List.
bit.listserv.s-comput     SuperComputers List (USCVM).
bit.listserv.sas-l        SAS(r) Discussion.
bit.listserv.script-l     IBM vs Waterloo SCRIPT Discussion Group.
bit.listserv.scuba-l      Scuba diving 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.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(r) 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.test         Test Newsgroup.
bit.listserv.tex-l        The TeXnical topics List.
bit.listserv.tn3270-l     tn3270 protocol Discussion 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.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.win3-l       Microsoft Windows Version 3 Forum.
bit.listserv.words-l      English Language Discussion Group.
bit.listserv.wp50-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.x400-l       x.400 Protocol List.
bit.listserv.9370-l       IBM 9370 and VM/IS specific topics 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.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.general         Q&A, discussions and comments on SCO products.
biz.sco.opendesktop     ODT environment and applications tech info, q&a.
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
NSF/Purdue/U of Florida  Software Engineering Research Center,
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-1398
Internet:  s...@cs.purdue.edu    phone:  (317) 494-7825


 
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