USENET Resources

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USENET Services

Summary

MOREnet offers NNTP-based USENET feeds to its members. The purpose is to reduce traffic coming from the Internet by collecting the feeds once and redistributing them across the MOREnet backbone to any subscribing member. Hopefully, this will eliminate the same article coming across the Internet for each participating member and eliminate the need for members to subscribe to (and pay for) several newsfeeds.

NNTP-based USENET news is a method for publicly broadcasting messages (articles, comments, binary-encoded and text files) which are loosely organized into Newsgroups. By subscription, these messages are both sent and received at your site by dedicated hardware and software called a news server. A user at your site then uses software called a news reader to read, write, reply, upload and download messages within the newsgroups.

Many other USENET resources are available at http://www.faqs.org/usenet/.

Newgroups

There are eight main hierarchies.

• comp.*
• rec.*
• sci.*
• soc.*
• misc.*
• news.*
• talk.*
• humanities.*

MOREnet also offers several alternative hierarchies.

• alt.* (no alt.binaries.*)
• ba.*
• chi.*
• gnu.*
• k12.*
• kc.*
• stl.*
• bionet.*
• mensa.*