Network News Top Level Hierarchy

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alt.*...

Largest collection of groups outside the big-7 hierarchy. Many Usenet sites do not receive some or all of these groups.

bionet.*...

Groups for topics interesting to biologists called "bionet" originating from net.bio.net and currently carried at over a third of the sites participating in the Arbitron readership survey.

bit.*...

Groups for redistributions of the more popular BitNet LISTSERV mailing lists.

biz.*...

Groups carried and propagated by sites interested in the world of business products around them -- in particular, computer products and services. This includes product announcements, announcements of fixes and enhancements, product reviews, and postings of demo software.

cern.*...

CERN News groups.

chile.*...

clari.*...

Groups gatewayed from commercial news services and other ``official'' sources.

comp.*...

Topics of interest to both computer professionals and hobbyists, including topics in computer science, software source, and information on hardware and software systems.

control.*...

cz.*...

Czech National News groups.

de.*...

German National News groups.

finet.*...

free.*...

gnu.*...

gnUSENET (gnUSENET is Not USENET) is a set of newsgroups bi-directionally gated with the Internet mailing lists of the GNU Project of the Free Software Foundation.

humanities.*...

ieee.*...

The IEEE newsgroups concern the IEEE -- the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

info.*...

Collection of mailing lists gatewayed into news at the University of Illinois. The lists are selected based on local interests but have proven popular at a number of sites.

linux.*...

Linux News groups. Other Linux oriented groups you can find on comp.os.linux.*

microsoft.*...

Microsoft News groups.

misc.*...

Groups addressing themes not easily classified under any of the other headings or which incorporate themes from multiple categories.

news.*...

Groups concerned with the news network and software themselves.

rec.*...

Groups oriented towards the arts, hobbies and recreational activities.

sci.*...

Discussions marked by special and usually practical knowledge, relating to research in or application of the established sciences.

sk.*...

Slovak National News groups.

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.

uk.*...

United Kingdom National News groups.

us.*...

zcu.*...

University of West Bohemia News groups.