USENET Newsgroups

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You can read Usenet articles stored in your local news-servers or from here. The former is faster and is preferred; and the latter is slower. So, set your NNTP server in the WWW browser to your local news server and choose the fast option below first. If they do not show you news articles, choose the slow option. It's recommended that you read FAQ first before plunging in. News in Chinese are indicated by their coding scheme (HZ, GB or Big5). When reading these newsgroups you may have to switch your default coding to GB, HZ or Big5. Check out the Chinese Software Primer to learn the basics of Chinese software.

Check out the newly created chinese.* hierarchy, entirely in Chinese (mostly HZ)
[fast] [slow], especially chinese.talk.misc.
alt.chinese.* -- alt.chinese.text has become chinese.talk.misc
[fast] [slow] (HZ); FAQs for former [ACT] CCIC's [ACT collection]
ACT Big5 version[fast] [slow]; [ACT-big5](Big5);
alt.chinese.software[fast] [slow];
rec.games.chinese-chess, etc:
[fast] [slow] (not available yet) and its latest [FAQ]
soc.culture.china, taiwan, hongkong etc
[fast] [slow] and their FAQs [SCC] [SCHK]
talk.politics.china, etc
[fast] [slow]
tw.bbs.* -- Taiwan BBS (Big5)
[fast] [slow]
cna.* -- Taiwan online news (Big5)
[fast] [slow]
hk.* -- Hong Kong (Big5)
[fast] [slow]
Check out all newsgroups available at CCIC
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