Directory of Hierarchies Resources

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Pages concerning particular hierarchies (regional hierarchies such as ba.* or uk.*, the big hierarchies such as the Big 8 or alt.*, and special interest hierarchies such as net.* or free.*).

Resources in This Category

• alabama.*

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

• 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.

• BIOSCI - Bionet Newsgroups

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

• 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.

• 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.

• europa.*

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

• finet.*

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Master List of Newsgroup Hierarchies

  http://www.pfx.ca/mlnh/
  A complete list of newsgroup hierarchies and their descriptions.

• 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.

• nj.*

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

• 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.

• UK Usenet

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

• 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.

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