| Newsgroup Resources
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 | - Indiana University's Usenet Resources
- http://scwww.ucs.indiana.edu/NetRsc/usenet.html
- Links to everything you ever wanted to know about USENET, including FAQs, charters, netiquette, how to start a newsgroup, etc. An excellent starting point.
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 | - Sunsite Search for Groups
- http://sunsite.unc.edu/usenet-i/search.html
- The absolute *best* way to search for appropriate newsgroups. If your browser is forms-compatible, don't waste your time anywhere else -- try this first! Brought to you by the University of North Carolina.
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 | - Ohio State's Newsgroups &;Mailing Lists
- http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/bngusenet/
news/lists/top.html
- Excellent resource for finding one-line descriptions of newsgroups as well as descriptions of publicly accessible mailing lists. Updated monthly.
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 | - Oxford's FAQs
- http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/internet/news/
- An easy-to-use interface for finding newsgroup FAQs. The best FAQ-finder of the resources listed here.
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 | - Ohio State's FAQs
- http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu:80/hypertext/faq/usenet/
- Alphabetical list of Usenet FAQs. These can help you determine what postings are welcome in a newsgroup, although Oxford's FAQs may be a better place to look.
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 | - Yahoo - News:Usenet
- http://www.yahoo.com/News/Usenet/
- Yahoo's directory of information about Usenet. This should help you locate other Usenet resources.
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 | - Usenet Charters
- ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/
- FTP directory maintained by UUNET. By drilling down, you can find the charters of Usenet newsgroups. Not a very easy way to learn about newsgroups.
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 | - Deja News
- http://www.dejanews.com/
- This is a good resource for scanning newsgroups to find out what people are saying about you (or your competition).
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 | - Zippo
- http://www.zippo.com/
- Commercial news service. For a small fee, you can read newsgroups and post to them. For a larger fee, you get faster access to more groups. More than 17,000 newsgroups!
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 | - Usenet News Finder
- http://alabanza.com/kabacoff/Inter-Links/cgi/news.cgi
- Terrific newsgroup finder provided by Rob Kabacoff at Inter-Links. You put in a word and it brings up a healthy list of matching groups with one line descriptions and hotlinks to the groups themselves. Very fast!
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 | - Tile.Net
- http://www.tile.net/tile/listserv/index.html
- Nifty little service for finding discussion groups (both newsgroups and mailing lists). Returns a list of matches with links to descriptions. It takes a while to drill down to the descriptions, but some contain useful statistics.
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