Usenet

Usenet news is a conferencing system on the Internet. Here is the top level of the news groups.

alt - alternative
bionet - biological
bit - bitnet
clari - clarinet
comp - computing
gnu - GNU is Not Unix
misc - miscellaneous
news - news itself
rec - recreation
sci - science
soc - social
talk - talk, talk, talk

If you want to take ownership of one of these catagories, by all means contact me, or respond below.

The usenet hierarchy is a hodge-podge resulting from just a few years of evolution. Its anarchistic bureaucracy slows the process down, and major reorganizations are all but impossible. Perhaps HyperNews will facilitate faster evolution.

A gateway between HyperNews and Usenet News is possible. See discusion in the future of HyperNews.

The following should be in subarticles.

General information about Usenet

How to post

Usenet software and sites

Information available on Usenet

Usenet groups

Usenet Related Software and Services

WWWNNTP is a CGI program bringing multimedia into Usenet News without the need of changing existing nntp protocol or server programs. Imagine seeing images, videos, hyperlinks to documents, gopher and ftp areas and formatted text in Usenet News!
Search Today's Usenet News

Unix Usenet Postings
Search Unix-related newsgroups for recent postings.

Usenet FAQ Index - INTAC
Keyword searching of Usenet FAQ's.

Usenet FAQs
Search Usenet FAQs for keywords and words in title.

Usenet Interest Groups Finder
Covers Usenet newsgroups and mailing lists.

Usenet Messages
Choose from several different Usenet groups to search for messages.

Usenet News Search
Search last 5 days of Usenet news.

Usenet News Article Search
Choose from several groups to search for postings.

Usenet News Groups
Search for Usenet newsgroups.

Usenet Newsgroup Postings
Subject only search of news articles.

WebNews
An archive of Usenet News articles about the Web.
Anchorman lets you search for newsgroups containing some string. You read the news with your specified NNTP server.

Usenet Hierarchies on the Web

Generally you cannot use these servers to read news. If anything, you will read news on the server specified by your NNTP variable.

Public-NNTP-Server searchengine - submit the full name of newsgroup (e.g. alt.bbs) or place a star at the end of the known name (e.g. comp.os.* )! You can also search for names of newsgroups (e.g. *michael*jackson*)! The searchengine will tell you all known public newsservers providing this newsgroup(s).
Internet Newsgroups at W3.
Newsgroups available in Oxford and FAQs for many of the newsgroups, created by Newslist - (a program to assist HTTP browsing of newsgroups)
WebThread at cs.utwente.nl.
List of NNTP Servers that allow public reading - and many that allow posting.
WebThread at U Waterloo.
Reading news with Mosaic at Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center
Stanford Netnews Filtering Service (SIFT)
Forum News Gateway puts netnews on the World Wide Web.
USiS Usenet Gateway lets you post to any newsgroup.
DejaNews Research Service provides search access to indexed archived news.
InfoSeek's Usenet News collection (Over 10,000 Usenet newsgroups)
From The Internet Sleuth - Usenet News searchable indexes:
USENET Newsgroups Database has an advanced search interface and a hypermail-like search interface.
Critical Mass Communications presents an experiment in USENET Newsgroup Archiving. The entire message base of Comp.Infosystems.WWW.... at your fingertips.

Utilities

Usenet Web is a combination Usenet newsgroup archiver and archive Web presentation system. It isnot intended as a substitute for a newsreader, and so does not include any facilities for posting to the Usenet. It does include facilities for searching the archive 'From' and 'Subject' lines for ranges of dates and can handle multiple newsgroup archives.
Newslist creates a hierarchy of pages for you based on the groups available from YOUR server.
WebThread threads articles of newsgroups.
Newslist - (a program to assist HTTP browsing of newsgroups)
Interest Groups Finder - searches for interest groups concerned with a topic. Both usenet newsgroups and mailing lists (listservs) are searched.