A list of archives of newsgroup traffic

The hierarchies

Navigate alphabetically to the newsgroup of interest to you. Only information about newsgroups appears here, and, with a few exceptions, only those newsgroups which have accessible archives. If you're looking for information about mailing lists, or still don't yet know for what newsgroup you're hunting, use the Liszt Searchable Directory of e-Mail Discussion Groups and news.groups.questions newsgroup.

Some of these hierarchies are likely to seem obscure. My decision, for which in fact I have an involved justification [give ref here] was that it is more convenient for me to be inclusive.

alt.*

atl.*

I have yet to locate any archives for the Atlanta regional newsgroups.

aus.*

This is the Australian hierarchy.

ba.*

bionet.*

bit.listserv.*

biz.*

bofh.*

Jeff Uphoff archives the entire bofh.* hierarchy.

ca.*

clari.*

ClariNet does not permit subscribers to make archives available to the public at large. As of February 1995, ClariNet did not itself archive any of its postings.

comp.*

courts.*

This is an interesting hierarchy, devoted to judicial court decisions and related emissions. Its propagation is minute.

de.*

As with most of the other national hierarchies, my hunts for archives of de.* newsgroups have yielded little. At least one newsgroup, though, de.alt.binaries.pictures.female, is available on CD-ROM. The few others of which I know are:

de.admin.lists

de.etc.lists

de.sci.announce

fr.*

ga.*

I have yet to locate any archives for the Georgia regional newsgroups.

gnu.*

Many, many of the gnu.* and related newsgroups are archived, but, so far, most of the archives I've found are on overloaded and consequently rather sluggish servers. I'm still mulling over what sort of information I can most usefully publish.

One well-run alternative is a lightly-loaded server in France:

gnu.emacs.announce (FTP)
gnu.emacs.announce (HTTP)

gnu.emacs.sources (FTP)
gnu.emacs.sources (HTTP)

gnu.emacs.vm.bug (FTP)
gnu.emacs.vm.bug (HTTP)

gnu.emacs.vm.info
gnu.emacs.vm.info (HTTP)

gnu.g++.announce
gnu.g++.announce (HTTP)

gnu.gcc.announce
gnu.gcc.announce (HTTP)

gnu.gcc.bug
gnu.gcc.bug (HTTP)

gnu.utils.bug
gnu.utils.bug (HTTP)

hun.*

info.*

This might be some sort of gateway from UIUC (that is, the main campus of the University of Illinois, in the United States) mailing lists mostly on subjects having to do with protocols.

houston.*

kent.*

This is the regional--campus-wide, in fact--hierarchy for Kent State University, in Ohio of the USA.

misc.*

mod.*

mod.* existed before the Great Renaming (correct?).

neosoft.*

NeoSoft is a commercial ISP which archives most or all of the traffic on its own internal newsgroups.

news.*

no.*

ns.*

ns.* is the regional hierarchy for Nova Scotia.

perl.*

At least one of the long-standing Perl mailing lists is gatewayed through NNTPSERVice.

pgh.*

This is the Pittsburgh regional hierarchy. Pittsburgh is the second-largest city in Pennsylvania, of the USA.

rec.*

sci.*

sfnet.*

This is the Finnish regional hierarchy.

soc.*

talk.*

uk.*

usf.*

Kevin Boneham <keywest@pobox.com> has done a great job constructing archives of many or all of the newsgroups which originated at and for the University of South Florida.

vmsnet.*

aus.*

aus.books

bit.*

Oklahoma State University maintains a massive archive of BITNET postings. 'Twill be a long time before I finish validating the entries there; in the meantime, they're certainly worth a visit from anyone searching for bit.* traffic.

bit.listserv.big-lan

bit.listserv.db2-l [NPAC]

bit.listserv.muslims (FTP)
bit.listserv.muslims (FTP)
bit.listserv.muslims (gopher)
bit.listserv.muslims (HTTP)

bit.listserv.nettrain

bit.listserv.new-list (gopher)
bit.listserv.new-list (FTP)

bit.listserv.pakistan

bit.listserv.pns-l

bit.listserve.quaker-p

bit.listserv.slovak-l

bit.listserv.techwr-l
bit.listserv.techwr-l

biz.*

courts.*

courts.usa.federal.supreme

courts.usa.state.ohio.supreme

hun.*

kent.*

kent.mcs.student.ugrad

kent.mcs.student.grad

kent.mcs.seminars

kent.mcs.jobs

kent.mcs.general

kent.mcs.call-for-papers

kent.general

misc.*

misc.answers

misc.health.alternative

John Jensen experiments with private archives of misc.jobs.* which he analyzes to detect trends.

misc.news.bosnia

misc.taxes

mod.*

The only archive left from the time of mod.*, that is, from before the Great Renaming, is for mod.recipes. See also alt.gourmand.

perl.*

perl.porters-gw

pgh.*

pgh.freenet

sfnet.*

sfnet.atk.amiga (Amiga computers)

sfnet.tietoliikenne.palvelimet (Network servers)

sfnet.tietoliikenne.televerkot (Telecommunications)

talk.*

talk.answers

talk.bizarre. This is a HURL archive.
talk.bizarre [sunsite.unc.edu]

talk.origins. This is a selective archive of what someone justly considers the most factually authoritative postings to t.o. "The best-maintained newsgroup archive I've ever seen" is Jorn Barger's label for a more recent variant on the same theme.

uk.*

uk.education.teachers [Sunsite UK].

uk.telecom [Sunsite UK].

vmsnet.*

vmsnet.sources [sterling.com]
vmsnet.sources [cerritos.edu]. There are also archives at acfcluster.nyu.edu and dmc.com, but I've had little success navigating them.

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