Usenet is a collection of newsgroups. Newsgroups are discussion forums. Often Usenet refers only to the "Big Eight" hierarchies: comp, humanities, misc, news, rec, sci, soc, and talk. While k12.ed.math is a newsgroup in the k12 hierarchy, it still operates by the usual Usenet conventions and is transported through the same network systems. So, for all practical purposes, it is part of Usenet. A newsgroup is not a mailing list or a listserve.

There are a huge number of newsgroups available, some of which discuss topics of interest to folks using OpenVMS operating system. Key among these are the news:comp.os.vms newsgroup and the vmsnet.* heirarchy of newsgroups.

Not exclusively for Rosacea. Perhaps the best 2 to try are alt.skincare.acne and alt.support.skin-diseases. You can read and post to You could also try your local feed of these newsgroups if your browser is configured: news:alt.support.skin-diseases news:alt.skincare.acne

There are probably over 100,000 usenet newsgroups available, but to provide access to all of them would put an immense strain on the computer that stores this web site. Altbaldspot.com is a dedicated web to usenet news gateway for the newsgroup alt.baldspot and a few related newsgroups. If you know of other active newsgroups that you would like to see on altbaldspot.com, then contact us at admin at altbaldspot.com

Discussion about AFPL Ghostscript and GSview can be found in the USENET newsgroup comp.lang.postscript Discussion about GNU Ghostscript and Ghostview can be found in the USENET newsgroup gnu.ghostscript.bug

Not at the time of writing, although the following groups cover many WAP-related questions, and will act as a good starting point:

Nothing - we considered starting a Usenet group instead, and if this list volume grows out of hand, we may do that, but for now, a mail list is more convenient and appropriate. The problem with most forums like USENET and general-purpose user's groups is that the topics are generally too oriented to beginners, and/or devoted to one type of software. Nothing's wrong with that, but we also need a place to talk that is more of interest to professionals. Also, some people don't have Usenet access.

Usenet is a distributed bulletin board system that is not limited in scope to the network of networks we call the Internet. Many on- line services, BBSs and other computing sites have newsfeeds without the benefits of FTP, Telnet, or other functions associated with the Internet. With over 15,000 newsgroups, Usenet may be the largest body of collective reasoning in the world.

alt.fan.the.cure - Another group on some servers. A Usenet Call-For-Votes was done for a Cure newsgroup in the rec.music.* hierarchy in 1995, but it failed to get enough 'yes' votes. Please do not post binary files (pictures or sounds) to the Cure newsgroups listed above. Many people download their news, and it takes forever if the newsgroup contains very long articles. [Craig]

This newsgroup has been dead for years, but was once a moderated group for HP48 Programs. es.comp.sistemas.hp48 Articles posted to the newsgroup comp.sys.hp48 are archived at ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/usenet/comp.sys.hp48/. Articles are archived by year and month, with a general index covering approximately the past two years. The AltaVista search engine at http://www.altavista.digital.

http://groups.google.com/group/google.public.support.general/msg/d88f36fb3e2c0aac (Who's computer is this?)

When you follow news links such as news:alt.invest, in MoneyWeb, you need access to a local news (NNTP) server. If you're getting error messages such as "cannot talk" or "cannot locate host," you probably don't have your news server configured properly in your browser options. Check your browser's help file or ask your internet service provider or systems administrator.

You have to use an e-mail gateway; this is achieved sending your posting as a regular e-mail to "post+bboard_name@andrew.cmu.edu", where bboard_name is the name of the Bboard which should host the posting.

You can try to connect your newsreader program (such as "tin") to the following newsservers to read local Usenet newsgroups in China. However, please remember that the Internet connection across the Pacific may be slow at times. Listed below are a few of them: news.ac.cn (osf.cnc.ac.cn, 159.226.2.8) This is a newsserver which is fed from Sesquinet in Houston, Texas every 5 minutes. Currently it carries around 2000 newsgroups. news.cernet.edu.cn (beijing3.cernet.edu.cn, 166.111.250.

quot;Use Authentication" and login using your entire primary account Zhonka e-mail address example: user@zhonka.net and primary Zhonka account password. Turn off encryption option if prompted. If you are using Outlook Express, please peruse the setup method detailed at http://help.safepages.com/setup/news/.

PROnews offers access to virtually all existing newsgroups for a total of more than 130,000. Your users will be sure to find at least a few groups that interest them.

You will find threads appearing on comp.graphics.misc and other related graphical newsgroups. The official newsgroup where much discussion takes place is alt.gif-agreement. You might also find information on the misc.legal.computing, misc.int-property, and comp.patents newsgroups.

No, we have a free Web News Gateway available to both PC and MSN TV (formerly WebTV) users. In order to access the gateway, all you need is a web browser, such as Internet Explorer for Windows or Safari for Mac. Using a newsreader remains the most efficient way to navigate Usenet, but because the Web-Gateway is simpler, we recommend it to beginning users. The web address of the gateway is WebNews.Newsfeeds.com.

RXN runs a secondary news server, uucp.rxn.com, in addition to its primary news server, news.rxn.com, specifically for batching news to UUCP sites. Please visit our Usenet FAQ for more information about Usenet services available via RXN UUCP.

When you follow news links, such as news - clari.news.top, in Yahoo! UK & Ireland, you will need access to a local news server (i.e. NNTP server). If you are getting error messages like "cannot talk" or "cannot locate host" you probably do not have your news server set properly in your WWW browser configuration. Please see your browser documentation on how to set this option.

Our answer is a resounding YES! In fact, we offer more groups, content and better speeds than what you received at American Online. And our customer support is ready to assist AOL users in getting connected to the newsgroups fast and easy.

Most Usenet newsgroups do not correspond to any mailing list, so the conventional answer to this question is "no" for most groups. However, there are some newsgroups that are gatewayed to mailing lists. For a list of them, see the "List of Active Newsgroups" or the "Mailing Lists Available in Usenet" postings in news.lists.

If you are in Mainland China and you are interested in some groups which newsservers in Mainland China do not carry, you can try to connect your news reader to some newsservers outside the Mainland by setting the environmental variable "NNTPSERVER" to them and read news directly there. You can try "fconvx.ncifcrf.gov", "newsserver.technet.sg" and "news.ifcss.org" as your NNTPSERVER. On the other hand, there are also some open news servers in Taiwan. Read the FAQ for "soc.culture.

Yes. This a built in function of Netscape and cannot be changed. As currently configured, users can send mail but in order to read news they would have to go to the ?Preferences¹ menu item and enter the name of a news host. We trust that most library users are not going to know the name of the Cornell newshost off the top of their heads and will not bother trying to get news to work.

Which Journals are relevant ? Some journals (both online and printed) which relate to complexity and self-organisation are: This FAQ has been compiled and is maintained by Chris Lucas of the CALResCo Group. Comments, suggestions, requests for additions and particularly criticisms and corrections are warmly welcomed. Please feel free to EMail me at CALResCo or post relevant messages to the Usenet newsgroup comp.theory.self-org-sys for discussion.