alt.binaries.pictures.cartoons
alt.comp.compression
alt.fan.letterman
alt.food.coffee
alt.security.pgp
clari.world.americas.canada
comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot
comp.lang.fortran
comp.sources.postscript
cu.mathematica
cu.users.tex
rec.humor.funny
rec.sport.basketball.college
sci.astro.amateur
sci.math.symbolic
trial.talk.politics.peace
Newsgroups can be read using Netscape or using a Unix news reader from among one of the following; rn, nn, trn, xrn. See the manual pages for the reader you use.
Becoming a ``Net News Junkie'' may cause you to lose valuable hours out of each day, so beware! You can learn to sift quickly through the (numerous!) worthless postings which pollute the unmoderated newsgroups, and you may decide to restrict the number of such newsgroups that look at. Learn to use "kill files" to help filter out the stupidest of the postings, the flame wars (exchanges of attacks and insults) and spam wars (a posting to to dozens of inappropriate newsgroups, often followed up by replies to all of the same inappropriate newsgroups, on and on and on). Often these useless exchanges run the same "Subject" line, which makes it easy for your newsreader's filter to catch.
Moderated newsgroups, those to which postings must first get approved by an individual (the newsgroup's owner), tend to have a higher ``signal-to-noise ratio''.