Newsgroup Hierarchy Listing
Giganews' Usenet Newsgroup hierarchy listing is a directory listing of the text newsgroups available on Giganews' Usenet service. Binary newsgroups are not listed in this directory; however, you may search for your favorite binary or text newsgroups by name using our newsgroup search feature.
- comp.*
- Computer-related discussions
- humanities.*
- Literature, religion, history, etc.
- misc.*
- Any newsgroup that doesn't belong in another hierarchy
- news.*
- Discussions regarding Usenet itself (creation/removal of newsgroups, abuse issues, etc.)
- rec.*
- Discussions regarding recreation of all types
- sci.*
- Discussions of scientific topics
- soc.*
- Current events & societal issues, as well as simple socializing ("chatting")
- talk.*
- Discussions of sensitive topics; newsgroups here tend to include very lively debates, where soc.* is more casual