List of newsgroups

From Wikinfo

As of October of 2002, there are around 100,000 Usenet newsgroups, of which approximately a fifth are active. This number varies, depending on the news server carrying the newsgroups.

Newsgroups of interest include:

• alt.arts.poetry.comments - for posting and commentary on poetry.
• alt.binaries.slack - artwork created by and for the Church of the SubGenius.
• alt.config - creation of new newsgroups in the alt.* hierarchy'
• alt.games.lucas-arts.monkey-island - Aglami, core of insanity
• alt.folklore.urban
• alt.religion.kibology - He who Greps.
• alt.revisionism - discussion of Holocaust revisionism.
• alt.sex.stories - text-based erotic stories of all types.
• alt.sexual.abuse.recovery and alt.sexual.abuse.recovery.moderated
• alt.suicide.holiday - pro-choice discussion of suicide.
• alt.sysadmin.recovery - the Scary Devil Monastery.
• alt.talk.creationism - discussion of the pros and cons of creationism.
• alt.zines - discussion of small-press publications, magazines, and pamphlets.
• news.admin.net-abuse.email - discussion of abuse of email by spammers and other parties.
• rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan
• rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc - discussion of the TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000.
• rec.humor.funny
• soc.support.youth.gay-lesbian-bi - support group for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered teenagers and youths.
• uk.lifts

See also:

• Google Groups contains a complete browsable list of groups at http://groups.google.com/groups?group=*

References

• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "List_of_newsgroups" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newsgroups, used under the GNU Free Documentation License

Links

• alt.arts.poetry.comments