Regional Newsgroup Hierarchies

Other Sources of Regional Hierarchy Info

• Lewis Eisen's Master List of Newsgroup Hierarchies
• news.admin.hierarchies
• news.admin.misc
• Oxford's news.admin.misc FAQ archive
• MIT's news.admin.misc FAQ archive. More up to date, but less complete?
• Known Geographic Distributions (as of August 1994)
• Known University Distributions (as of August 1994)
• Search Lycos for 'Checkgroups'
• cpcnet's hierarchical list of newsgroups (Feb '95)
• your own web browser's hierarchical list of newsgroups

News Hierarchy Charters, Checkgroup Messages, and Home Pages

• United States
  • Pacific Northwest Checkgroups Messsage
  • Alabama
    • Alabama.* charter, hsv.* checkgroups
  • California
    • California UseNet Project NEW
    • Los Angeles: la.* description
    • San Diego: sdnet.* description
    • South Bay/Silicon Valley: sbay.* description
    • sbay.* policy/cancelbot page. Includes info on other California hierarchies.
  • Florida
    • Miami.general Announcement
  • Illinois
    • Chi.* charter
  • Pennsylvania
    • phl.* checkgroups (local copy)
  • Texas
    • tx.usenet.config newsgroup
    • sat.* charter
• Canada
  • Canadian Regional and University Newsgroups (local copy)
  • Canadian Internet Service Provider Newsgroups (local copy)
• Europe
  • List of eunet.* groups
  • United Kingdom
    • The constitution for the elected committee responsible for the uk.* hierarchy
    • UK.* Checkgroups and Charters (Pipex's copies)
  • Poland: How to add pl.* hierarchy to a news server
  • Netherlands: FAQ over het Nederlandse Internet en USENET (nl.*, nlnet.*)
  • France: checkgroups for fr.* (local copy)
  • Germany
    • Autoresponder - sends list of current de.* groups
    • checkgroups for north.* (regional for Weser/Ems)
    • list of groups for t-netz.*
  • Russia: checkgroups for relcom.*
• Australia
  • FAQ: Checkgroups for aus.* (local copy)
• Asia
  • Japan
    • fj.* Newsgroup Management Committee (Japanese)
    • fj.* Active Newsgroups (Japanese + English)
    • fj.* Checkgroups (English; from Oregon)
  • New Zealand: nz.* FAQ (dejaNews copy)

Regional Usenet Peering Associations

• RARE-News (Europe)
• SBAY.ORG (California)

General Usenet technical info

• MG's House of News Knowledge -- really complete. Good place to learn.
• Yahoo's Usenet Page