Newsgroups

Newsgroups may or may not be Usenet, it can also be an interface to online forums.

Clients

The easiest to look around, specially if is a server not in Usenet, is using lynx:

lynx news://news.tildeverse.org

Otherwise Alpine is great –even if a bit complicated to configure–.

Usenet

• AIOE public news server – it has been down for a while, blog entry
• Eternal September – provides free access to text groups, but needs registerig
• List of free NNTP servers – sometimes off-line
• Another list of NNTP servers – another good list

I’ve been happy using news.blueworldhosting.com for read-only.

Not Usenet

These three are connected and share groups:

• news.tildeverse.org – web interface
• cosmic.voyage
• campaignwiki.org – it also has a web interface

SDF has some local groups (very inactive, needs account on SDF):

• news.sdf.org