Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!news.informatik.hu-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: A comp.misc list of active newsgroups Date: 25 Feb 2014 21:33:39 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <8c3a4756-8def-4696-9506-37ab446af87c@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net XRl/tB0G/RiyJSC1esZWWAJUrzJ41mN7a7Yxy+bhgJ3Ez8xOe2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:LNgnzFoxEU8GmihAIgnhJsCu9Ws= X-No-Archive: Yes User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-16 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:935 On 2014-02-24, wjwlsn wrote: >> On 2014-02-24, Peter Percival wrote: >>> wjwlsn wrote: >>>> Over the past week or so, I've seen many people post about other >>>> newsgroups (or hierarchies) that are active. I decided to collect all >>>> those I could remember into a list. >>> >>> What about the thousands that you don't remember, and the thousands that >>> you've never heard of? >> >> Precisely. >> >> huge@amun:~/Prog/News$ wc -l NIN_active.txt >> 24113 NIN_active.txt >> huge@amun:~/Prog/News$ >> > > Hmmm... when I said "remember", what I actually meant was "find when I went > back and scanned through every message posted here since we moved in". Oh, OK. > Also, > I hadn't really thought that this would become a complete list of all active news > groups, but rather a list of active groups recommended by comp.misc posters... > on the theory that we all probably have overlapping interests and might therefore > enjoy similar newsgroups. You're possibly likely better off starting with a full list and eliminating things. -- Today is Sweetmorn, the 56th day of Chaos in the YOLD 3180 "Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath"