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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

For a heavier use, I recommend:

• Alpine is great for console –even if a bit complicated to configure–.
• Thunderbird for GUI, specially if you are using it for email already.

Usenet

• AIOE public news server – it has been down for a while, blog entry.
• List of free NNTP servers – sometimes off-line.
• Another list of NNTP servers – another good list.

I used news.blueworldhosting.com for a while (read-only), until finally created an Eternal September account –not that I post often–.

Some interesting groups with occasional traffic:

• alt.folklore.computers – wide range of topics, mostly computing.
• comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg – CRPG games, classic and sometimes new.
• comp.infosystems.gemini – about the smolnet protocol.
• misc.news.internet.discuss – news and discussion, all releated to the Internet (mostly).
• comp.misc – what the name says!

I searched for FAQs for these, and I couldn’t find them.

You can read active threads on the web (and search for old messages) at NARKIVE.