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Newsgroups Available at UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley news servers carry all of the traditional "big eight"
newsgroups described below. Select groups from the alt.* hierarchy as
well as other hierarchies outside of the big eight are carried as
well.
If you simply would like to see a pre-existing alt.* or a group in a
different non big eight hierarchy carried by UC Berkeley news servers,
send email to usenet@agate.berkeley.edu with
the full group name and a short description of the group (for the
newsgroups file). Requests to add groups are almost always honored
(except in the rare case that the group is known to be bogus).
Traditional Top Level Usenet Groups
These groups are distributed worldwide and are divided into eight
broad classifications: humanities, news,
soc, talk, misc, sci,
comp and rec. Each of these classifications is
organized into groups and subgroups according
to topic.
- comp
- Topics of interest to both computer professionals and
hobbyists, including topics in computer science, software
source, and information on hardware and software systems.
- humanities
- Topics about the humanities.
- misc
- Groups addressing themes not easily classified under any of the
other headings or that incorporate themes from multiple
categories.
- news
- Groups concerned with the news network and software themselves.
- rec
- Groups oriented towards hobbies and recreational activities.
- sci
- Discussions intended as technical in nature and relating
to the established sciences.
- soc
- Groups primarily addressing social issues and socializing.
- talk
- Groups largely debate-oriented and tending to feature long
discussions without resolution and without appreciable amounts
of generally useful information.
Information on these groups is posted once a month to news.lists, news.groups, and news.announce.newusers, under
the subject "List of Active Newsgroups".
Send comments to usenet@agate.berkeley.edu.
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Last revised:
August 07, 2003
Technical inquiries:
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