Knowledge: hierarchies

Links

aus.* Newsgroup Administration 
http://aus.news-admin.org/

Provides the definitive list of all newsgroups in aus.* (Australia) including charters, voting instructions and information on creation of new aus.* newsgroups.

dk.* 
http://usenet.dk/dk-admin/

Information for news administrators about the dk.* hierarchy (Danish newsgroups), including public PGP key, current checkgroups message and archived control messages.

europa.* 
http://www.europa.usenet.eu.org/

International newsgroups hierarchy for topics covering the continent of Europe.

italia.* 
http://news.cineca.it/italia/index-eng.html

List of sites carrying italia.* hierarchy (regional/local groups within Italy; it.* is for other Italian groups). Includes configuration files for news servers, complete listing of all newsgroups in the hierarchy and their charters.

ca.* 
http://www.sbay.org/ca/

The California Usenet Project is an effort to coordinate the ca.* hierarchy (California, United States). Lists of newsgroups, charters, and plans.

nj.* 
http://www.exit109.com/~jeremy/nj/

New Jersey, United States. Rules, checkgroups, administration, list of groups.

japan.* 
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~AE5T-KSN/japan-e.html

One of the hierarchies for Japan (along with fj.*). Checkgroups, sample control.ctl entry, policies.

sbay.* 
http://www.sbay.org/sbay-newsgroups.html

South Bay (San Jose and nearby areas, about 50 miles south of San Francisco), California, United States. Charters, policies, group list.

k12.* 
http://www.k12groups.org/

The history of the hierarchy, a list of all newsgroups in the hierarchy, information about each group, and links to pages about some of the individual groups.

alabama.* 
http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~dank/us.config/us.al.txt

Presentation of the hierarchy dedicated to Alabama.

Master List of Newsgroup Hierarchies 
http://www.magma.ca/~leisen/mlnh/

A complete list of newsgroup hierarchies and their descriptions.

UK Usenet 
http://www.usenet.org.uk/

Homepage of the UK Usenet Committee. Information about usenet newsgroups in the United Kingdom.

Big-8 Usenet 
http://www.big-8.org/

Management board of the big 8 hierarchies: controls creation, naming, moderation policies and removal processes for newsgroups in those hierarchies. Includes a FAQ and details of recent announcements.

cn.bbs.* 
http://www.cn-bbs.org/

FAQs, checkgroup list, PGP key, overview of this Chinese hierarchy and newsgroup creation or deletion schedule.

News-admin.org 
http://www.news-admin.org/

Links to several top-level hierarchies, any of which may register a subdomain of news-admin.org for their hierarchy.

sfnet Newsgroups 
http://www.cs.tut.fi/sfnet/

Presentation of the administered Finnish hierarchy: spam and binary cancel policy, control messages and the associated PGP key as well as the checkgroup list.

finet.* 
http://www.cis.hut.fi/kaip/finet/

Presentation of the free (as in alt.*) Finnish hierarchy. Checkgroup list and binary policy.

ch.* 
http://www.use-net.ch/

Provides an overview over Swiss newsgroups and the charter for each group, as well as the history of the hierarchy reorganization.

no.* 
http://www.usenet.no/no-admin.html

Presentation of the Norwegian hierarchy: checkgroups, PGP signed control key, control message archive and configuration information for INN.

Usenet Hierarchy Administration FAQ 
http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/usenet-hier.html

Provides help to Usenet hierarchy administrators who try to maintain the canonical lists of newsgroups in managed hierarchies.

pl.* 
http://www.usenet.pl/doc/news-pl-new-site-faq.html

Explains how to add Polish pl.* hierarchy to a news server, briefly presents the hierarchy and provides technical information.

gnUSENET 
http://www.gnu.org/usenet/

Presentation of the gnu.* hierarchy, which is a collection of newsgroups about the Free Software Foundation's GNU Project. Most of these newsgroups correspond to GNU mailing lists.

Furrynet (fur.*) Newsgroups 
http://www.tigerden.com/infopage/furry/furrynet.html

Details about Furrynet, a private news hierarchy for furries.

cmeerw.org: openwatcom.* 
http://cmeerw.org/openwatcom/

Presentation of the small hierarchy dedicated to the open source Open Watcom cross compilers. Archived control messages, list of bogus groups and servers carrying the hierarchy, news feeds for other servers.

BIOSCI - Bionet Newsgroups 
http://www.bio.net/

Promotes communication between professionals in the biological sciences. Includes related resource links. From Stanford University.

isu.* 
http://news.isu.edu.tw/

Presentation of the hierarchy on the I-Shou University in Taiwan. FAQ, checkgroups, PGP key and a web-news gateway are available.

hamster.* 
http://www.arcorhome.de/newshamster/micha/usenet/

Presentation of the hierarchy dedicated to hamster, a local mail and newsserver with many tools around. Group list, charters, posting rules, PGP key and checkgroup messages available.

Trigofacile.com: Hierarchies 
http://usenet.trigofacile.com/hierarchies/

Canonical list of managed, unmanaged, local and private hierarchies with information on how to carry them: newsgroups list, PGP key, contact, URL.

it.* 
http://www.news.nic.it/

Site in Italian and English. Includes the PGP key for verifying control messages, servers configuration FAQ for the hierarchy and the latest checkgroups control message.

borland.* 
http://info.borland.com/newsgroups/

Presentation of this hierarchy provided as a user supported area to exchange information, tips and techniques for the community of Borland customers.

Usenet II 
http://www.usenet2.org/

The net.* hierarchy is based on the concept of "sound sites". The goal is to create a new Usenet as free as possible from spam and other maladies.

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