Available Newsgroups

There are well over 30,000 newsgroups in existence. Luckily they are organised into many hierarchies according to general topic.

The main hierarchies are:

bionet

-- Research biology

bit.listserv

-- Conferences originating as Bitnet mailing lists

biz

-- Business

comp

-- Computers and related subjects

misc

-- Discussions that don't fit anywhere else

news

-- News about Usenet itself

rec

-- Hobbies, games and recreation

sci

-- Science other than research biology

soc

-- "Social" groups, often ethnically related

talk

-- Politics and related topics

alt

-- Controversial or unusual topics; not carried by all sites

In addition, many host systems carry newsgroups for a particular city, state or region. Indeed Cardiff University and the Dept of Computer Science have many newsgroups

 
cardiff.admin, cardiff.ga, cardiff.general,
cardiff.gp-wales.announce, cardiff.gp-wales.binaries, 
cardiff.gp-wales.cme, cardiff.gp-wales.discussion,
cardiff.gp-wales.dissemination, cardiff.gp-wales.test, 
cardiff.momed.test, cardiff.ncube, 
cardiff.pg.general, cardiff.pg.staff,
cardiff.psych.general, cardiff.psych.it, 
cardiff.psych.part1, cardiff.psych.part2a, 
cardiff.psych.part2b, cardiff.test

comsc.bsc2.ai, comsc.bsc2.c, 
comsc.bsc3.ai, comsc.bsc3.imgprc,
comsc.msc.ai.vision