Newsgroups
Newsgroups
Newsgroups are organized hierarchically. The seven official Usenet categories are the following.
(The numbers in parentheses are the numbers of newsgroups within each category, as found on McGill news server on 1998 April 7 and 2001 Apr 11, and on Google on 2006 Mar 15.)
| comp | computers (1090/1158/1193 groups) |
| misc | miscellaneous topics (148/206/231 groups) |
| news | information about newsgroups (35/41/55 groups) |
| rec | recreational topics (806/881/901 groups) |
| sci | science (232/234/233 groups). Includes sci.bio.* (19 groups), sci.med.* (33 groups) |
| soc | society (327/309/334 groups) |
| talk | debates about various issues (37/42/44 groups) |
Slide show generated from news.html by Weasel 2007 Mar 7