USENET News
USENET News provides a forum for a wide range of topics in which
people can discuss items, post announcements, distribute software and
documents, and a variety of other items. USENET News is an
interactive system, the readers are also the suppliers of the
information. However not all the World Wide Web navigation programs
allow users to post articles. If the program you use does not allow direct
postings, you can post messages via e-mail.
If you are a new user, be sure to read
Usenet Etiquette before posting.
- COMPREHENSIVE LIST
- Check here if you can't find a certain group anywhere else.
If the group you are looking for is not on this list, send a request to:
newsmaster-request@te6000.otc.lsu.edu
- LSU LOCAL GROUPS
- These groups discuss matters of interest to the LSU Community.
Traditional USENET newsgroups are broken into hierarchies by broad subject
classifications.
The seven major news categories are:
- COMPUTING
- deals with all aspects of computers, including hardware,
operating systems, programming, as well as using them.
- SCIENTIFIC
- covers topics of research in chemistry, physics, mathematics,
engineering and other areas.
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MISCELLANEOUS
- covers a broad range of topics that don't
fit under any other group, including consumer and job related
interests.
- BITNET
- provides a range of topics, gatewayed from BITNET's LISTSERV
mailing lists.
- SOCIAL
- discusses topics concerned with lifestyles and cultures.
- TALK
- covers items in current events.
-
RECREATIONAL
- provides discussions and information on
hobbies, leisure, sports, and other recreational activities.
- NEWS
- carries information about the USENET News system itself.
Other Groups
There are other groups widely distributed. They are known as 'Alternative News Group Hierarchies'. The most common ones in this classification are:
- ALT
- discusses 'alternative ways of looking at things'. Some of them talk about bizarre topics, but others are quite useful, e.g.: alt.hypertext and alt.gopher.
- BioNet
- groups of interest to biologists.
- BIZ
- allows postings of advertisements and other marketing materials.
- GNU
- discussions related to the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and it's GNU project. Includes products announcements, bug reports and users' questions.
- K12
- dedicated to teachers and students form kindergarten through high school.
- VMSNET
- DEC's VAX/VMS operating system and DECNET.
- IEEE
- discussions related to the IEEE (Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers.
- HEPNET
- groups of interest to the High Energy Physics community.
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