Web Directory

» BIOSCI - Bionet Newsgroups
   Promotes communication between professionals in the biological sciences. Includes related resource links. From Stanford University.
   http://www.bio.net/

» Big-8 Usenet
   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.
   http://www.big-8.org/

» Furrynet (fur.*) Newsgroups
   Details about Furrynet, a private news hierarchy for furries.
   http://www.tigerden.com/infopage/furry/furrynet.html

» Master List of Newsgroup Hierarchies
   A complete list of newsgroup hierarchies and their descriptions.
   http://www.magma.ca/~leisen/mlnh/

» News-admin.org
   Links to several top-level hierarchies, any of which may register a subdomain of news-admin.org for their hierarchy.
   http://www.news-admin.org/

» 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.
   http://usenet.trigofacile.com/hierarchies/

» UK Usenet
   Homepage of the UK Usenet Committee. Information about usenet newsgroups in the United Kingdom.
   http://www.usenet.org.uk/

» Usenet Hierarchy Administration FAQ
   Provides help to Usenet hierarchy administrators who try to maintain the canonical lists of newsgroups in managed hierarchies.
   http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/usenet-hier.html

» Usenet II
   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.
   http://www.usenet2.org/

» alabama.*
   Presentation of the hierarchy dedicated to Alabama.
   http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~dank/us.config/us.al.txt

» aus.* Newsgroup Administration
   Provides the definitive list of all newsgroups in aus.* (Australia) including charters, voting instructions and information on creation of new aus.* newsgroups.
   http://aus.news-admin.org/

» borland.*
   Presentation of this hierarchy provided as a user supported area to exchange information, tips and techniques for the community of Borland customers.
   http://info.borland.com/newsgroups/

» ca.*
   The California Usenet Project is an effort to coordinate the ca.* hierarchy (California, United States). Lists of newsgroups, charters, and plans.
   http://www.sbay.org/ca/

» ch.*
   Provides an overview over Swiss newsgroups and the charter for each group, as well as the history of the hierarchy reorganization.
   http://www.use-net.ch/

» 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.
   http://cmeerw.org/openwatcom/

» europa.*
   International newsgroups hierarchy for topics covering the continent of Europe.
   http://www.europa.usenet.eu.org/

» finet.*
   Presentation of the free (as in alt.*) Finnish hierarchy. Checkgroup list and binary policy.
   http://www.cis.hut.fi/kaip/finet/

» gnUSENET
   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.
   http://www.gnu.org/usenet/

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

» 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.
   http://www.news.nic.it/

» japan.*
   One of the hierarchies for Japan (along with fj.*). Checkgroups, sample control.ctl entry, policies.
   http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~AE5T-KSN/japan-e.html

» nj.*
   New Jersey, United States. Rules, checkgroups, administration, list of groups.
   http://www.exit109.com/~jeremy/nj/

» pl.*
   Explains how to add Polish pl.* hierarchy to a news server, briefly presents the hierarchy and provides technical information.
   http://www.usenet.pl/doc/news-pl-new-site-faq.html

» sbay.*
   South Bay (San Jose and nearby areas, about 50 miles south of San Francisco), California, United States. Charters, policies, group list.
   http://www.sbay.org/sbay-newsgroups.html

» sfnet Newsgroups
   Presentation of the administered Finnish hierarchy: spam and binary cancel policy, control messages and the associated PGP key as well as the checkgroup list.
   http://www.cs.tut.fi/sfnet/