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alt.*
A collection of newsgroups that is being distributed by a collection of
sites that choose to carry the groups. Many sites do not receive these
groups.
- alt.0d
Yet another attempt to collect stupid people up front.
- alt.1d
One-dimensional imaging, & the thinking behind it.
- alt.2600/
- alt.2600hz
Use alt.mag.2600 instead.
- alt.2d
People using this group have no depth.
- alt.3d/
- alt.aapg/
- alt.abortion/
- alt.abuse/
- alt.acme/
- alt.acting
I'm just not myself today.
- alt.activism/
- alt.adjective/
- alt.adoption/
- alt.aeffle/
- alt.agriculture/
- alt.airline/
- alt.alcohol
Don't drink and drive on the Info...no, I can't say it.
- alt.aldus/
- alt.algebra/
- alt.alien/
- alt.allsysop
Use comp.bbs.misc instead.
- alt.alt/
- alt.alumni/
- alt.amateur-comp
Discussion and input for Amateur Computerist Newsletter.
- alt.amazon-women/
- alt.american/
- alt.amiga/
- alt.anagrams
Playing with words.
- alt.anarchism
Anarchists of the world, unite!
- alt.anger
Seething rage.
- alt.angst
Anxiety in the modern world.
- alt.animals/
- alt.animation/
- alt.anonymous/
- alt.answers/
- alt.anything
Use misc.misc instead.
- alt.aol-sucks
Why some people hate AOL and/or its users.
- alt.aol/
- alt.apocalypse
Now.
- alt.appalachian/
- alt.aquaria/
- alt.archaeology
Use sci.archaeology instead.
- alt.archery
Robin Hood had the right idea.
- alt.archimedes/
- alt.architecture/
- alt.aromatherapy
The effects of scents.
- alt.art/
- alt.artcom
Artistic Community, arts & communication.
- alt.arts/
- alt.ascii-art/
- alt.asian-movies
Movies from Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Chinese mainland.
- alt.astrology/
- alt.atari-jaguar/
- alt.atari/
- alt.atheism/
- alt.athiesm
Illiterate Godless heathens.
- alt.aus/
- alt.authorware
About Authorware, produced by Authorware. So subtle.
- alt.auto/
- alt.autos/
- alt.babylon5/
- alt.bacchus
Disciples of the god of wine.
- alt.backrubs
Lower...to the right...aaaah!
- alt.bad/
- alt.baldspot
He's not only the founder, he's a customer; our guy Sy.
- alt.banjo/
- alt.barefoot
Campaigning against "No shirt, no shoes, no service."
- alt.barney/
- alt.base-jumping/
- alt.basement/
- alt.bbs/
- alt.beadworld
We must appease the Bead Gods.
- alt.beer/
- alt.beograd
City and people of Beograd.
- alt.best/
- alt.bible/
- alt.bigfoot/
- alt.binaires/
- alt.binaries/
- alt.birthright
Birthright Party propaganda.
- alt.bitch/
- alt.bitterness
No matter what it's for, you know how it'll turn out.
- alt.blasphemy
Irreverence on the net? Who would have thought.
- alt.bogus/
- alt.bonehead/
- alt.bonsai
Little trees and battle screams.
- alt.books/
- alt.boomerang
The angular throwing club, not the Eddie Murphy flick.
- alt.bored
What people do when they are bored.
- alt.bork
People just love the sound of that word.
- alt.bosnia/
- alt.braces
No description.
- alt.brother-jed
The born-again minister touring US campuses.
- alt.buddha/
- alt.building/
- alt.business/
- alt.buttered/
- alt.butts
Cigarettes, guns, logs, casks, you name it.
- alt.cable-tv/
- alt.cad/
- alt.calculator/
- alt.california
The state and the state of mind.
- alt.callahans
Callahan's bar for puns and fellowship.
- alt.canadian/
- alt.captain/
- alt.cardgame/
- alt.cars/
- alt.cartoon/
- alt.cascade
Art or litter, you decide.
- alt.catastrophism
Look out below!
- alt.caving
Spelunk.
- alt.cd-rom/
- alt.celebrities
Famous people and their sycophants.
- alt.cellular
Cellular telephone technology.
- alt.cellular-phone-tech
Brilliant telephony mind blows netnews naming.
- alt.cellular/
- alt.censorship
Discussion about restricting speech/press.
- alt.cereal
Breakfast cereals and their (m)ilk.
- alt.cesium
College Educated Students in Universal Mainland.
- alt.charlie/
- alt.cheese
This is cheezy.
- alt.chess/
- alt.chewy/
- alt.child-support
Raising children in a split family.
- alt.childcare
Non-parental child care. See also misc.kids.*.
- alt.chinchilla
The nature of chinchilla farming in America today.
- alt.chinese/
- alt.chips/
- alt.christnet/
- alt.clearing/
- alt.clothing/
- alt.clueless
I have no idea how to describe this group.
- alt.co-evolution
The Whole Earth Review and associated lifestyles.
- alt.co-ops
Discussion about co-operatives.
- alt.cobol
Relationship between programming and stone axes.
- alt.coffee/
- alt.collecting/
- alt.college/
- alt.comedy/
- alt.comics/
- alt.community/
- alt.comp/
- alt.computer/
- alt.config
Alternative subnet discussions and connectivity.
- alt.config,
alt.newgroup, alt.answers, news.admin.misc, and news.groups,
- alt.consciousness/
- alt.conspiracy/
- alt.construction
The construction industry. See also alt.pave.the.earth.
- alt.consumers/
- alt.control/
- alt.cooking-chat
Use rec.food.cooking instead.
- alt.corel/
- alt.corporate/
- alt.cosuard
Sysops against rate discrimination.
- alt.coupons
/koo pahns/, not /kew pahns/. Try it.
- alt.cows/
- alt.crackers
Snack food in little bits or big bytes.
- alt.cracks
Heavy toolbelt wearers of the world, unite.
- alt.crafts/
- alt.creative-cook
Use rec.food.cooking instead.
- alt.creative-cooking
Use rec.food.cooking instead.
- alt.crime
Crime in general, not just the crimes in alt.*.
- alt.cuddle
What cows do with their food; should be alt.cows.cuddle.
- alt.cult-movies/
- alt.cult/
- alt.culture/
- alt.current-events/
- alt.cybercafes
Cyber/Computer/Internet Cafes or Coffeeshops.
- alt.cyberpunk/
- alt.cyberspace/
- alt.cynicism
Bitter on the outside, idealistic on the inside!
- alt.dads-rights/
- alt.david
Where have you gone, Michaelangelo?
- alt.dcom/
- alt.dead/
- alt.dear/
- alt.desert-storm
Continuing proof that alt groups never die.
- alt.design/
- alt.destroy/
- alt.dev/
- alt.devilbunnies
Probably better left undescribed.
- alt.disasters/
- alt.discordia/
- alt.discrimination
Quotas, affirmative action, bigotry, persecution.
- alt.disney/
- alt.divination
Divination techniques (e.g., I Ching, Tarot, runes).
- alt.dont/
- alt.dragons-inn/
- alt.dreams/
- alt.drinks/
- alt.drugs/
- alt.drumcorps
Use rec.arts.marching.drumcorps instead.
- alt.drunken/
- alt.drwho/
- alt.dss
Discussion of the new Digital Satellite Systems.
- alt.duck/
- alt.duke/
- alt.dumpster
Oscar has always wanted a roomier place.
- alt.education/
- alt.elvis/
- alt.emusic
Ethnic, exotic, electronic, elaborate, etc, music.
- alt.energy/
- alt.engineering/
- alt.engr/
- alt.ensign/
- alt.etext
Texts made available for electronic redistribution.
- alt.eunuchs/
- alt.evil
Tales from the dark side.
- alt.exotic-music
Exotic music discussions.
- alt.exploding/
- alt.ezines
Electronically published mini-magazines.
- alt.fairs/
- alt.fan/
- alt.fandom/
- alt.fantasy/
- alt.fashion
All facets of the fasion industry discussed.
- alt.fax
Use comp.dcom.fax instead.
- alt.feminazis
For people who hate radical feminists.
- alt.feminism/
- alt.fiesta-bowl/
- alt.filesystems/
- alt.fishing
Use rec.outdoors.fishing instead.
- alt.flame/
- alt.floors/
- alt.folklore/
- alt.fondle/
- alt.foo/
- alt.food/
- alt.foot/
- alt.foreplay
The alt.sex groups probably have useful tips about this.
- alt.forsale/
- alt.fractal-design/
- alt.frank/
- alt.fraternity/
- alt.freaks
Rick James, we love you!
- alt.freedom/
- alt.freemasonry
Someone will build my basement for free? Cool.
- alt.freenet
Free access to computer networks.
- alt.french/
- alt.fringeware
Riding the radical edge of the software wave.
- alt.fun/
- alt.future/
- alt.fyrom/
- alt.galactic-guide
Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Known Galaxy Project.
- alt.gambling
Use rec.gambling instead.
- alt.games/
- alt.gathering/
- alt.geek
To fulfill an observed need.
- alt.genealogy
Use soc.genealogy.* instead.
- alt.gif-agreement
The CompuServe/Unisys GIF "tax" agreement.
- alt.global/
- alt.gnn/
- alt.gobment/
- alt.good/
- alt.gopher
Discussion of the gopher information service.
- alt.gossip/
- alt.gothic/
- alt.gourmand
Recipes & cooking info. (Moderated)
- alt.gov/
- alt.government/
- alt.grad-student/
- alt.grad/
- alt.graffiti
The writing is on the wall.
- alt.graphics/
- alt.great-lakes
Discussions of the Great Lakes and adjacent places.
- alt.great/
- alt.guinea/
- alt.guitar/
- alt.hacker
No description.
- alt.hackers/
- alt.hackintosh
Clever programming on Apple's Macintosh.
- alt.hangover
Pass the aspirin and a barrel of coffee.
- alt.happy/
- alt.happynet
Kibo's HappyNet.
- alt.hash/
- alt.healing/
- alt.health/
- alt.help/
- alt.hemp/
- alt.heraldry/
- alt.herpes/
- alt.hi/
- alt.hillary-c/
- alt.hindu
The Hindu religion. (Moderated)
- alt.history/
- alt.holoworld/
- alt.home-theater/
- alt.home/
- alt.homosexual
Same as alt.sex.homosexual.
- alt.horology
A group for the science of clocks and watches.
- alt.horror/
- alt.hotrod
High speed automobiles. (Moderated)
- alt.housing/
- alt.how-to
Do-it-yourself (DIY) topics.
- alt.html
Use comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html instead.
- alt.human-brain
A delicacy in some corners of the planet.
- alt.humor/
- alt.hvac
Heating, venting and air conditioning.
- alt.hygiene/
- alt.hypertext
Discussion of hypertext -- uses, transport, etc.
- alt.hypnosis
When you awaken, you will forget about this newsgroup.
- alt.i-like-toejam/
- alt.icelandic/
- alt.illinois/
- alt.illuminati
See alt.cabal. Fnord.
- alt.imag/
- alt.image/
- alt.immortal
Eventually makes you insult people around the universe.
- alt.impeach/
- alt.india/
- alt.individualism
Philosophies where individual rights are paramount.
- alt.industrial/
- alt.infertility
Discussion of infertility causes and treatments.
- alt.info-science
This is really about library science.
- alt.inner/
- alt.insults/
- alt.internet/
- alt.inventors
People with new ideas.
- alt.invest/
- alt.irc/
- alt.irs/
- alt.is/
- alt.islam/
- alt.japanese/
- alt.jell-o/
- alt.jokes/
- alt.journalism/
- alt.jyotish
No description.
- alt.kalbo
Bald guys of the world, unite!
- alt.karen
Vanity group.
- alt.kegs
Kegs -- presumably beer, but you never know.
- alt.ketchup
Whak* Whak* ...shake... Whak* Damn, all over my shirt.
- alt.kids-talk/
- alt.kill/
- alt.lacrosse
Use alt.sport.lacrosse instead.
- alt.lamers/
- alt.landscape/
- alt.lang/
- alt.language/
- alt.law-enforcement
No, ossifer, there's nothing illegal going on in alt.
- alt.lawyers/
- alt.learning-to-lead
Be a follower, there's more room in back.
- alt.left-handed
For left-handed folks.
- alt.lefthanders
How gauche.
- alt.legend/
- alt.lemmings
Rodents with a death wish.
- alt.lesbian/
- alt.letzebuerger
A forum for Luxemburgish students.
- alt.lies
This is not a newsgroup.
- alt.life/
- alt.lifestyle/
- alt.literacy/
- alt.locksmithing
You locked your keys in *where*?
- alt.lotto/
- alt.love
Created by someone who couldn't find alt.romance.
- alt.lucky/
- alt.lwaxana-troi/
- alt.lycra
The WunderFabrik.
- alt.mac/
- alt.macedonia/
- alt.machines/
- alt.mag/
- alt.magazine/
- alt.magazines/
- alt.magic/
- alt.magick/
- alt.make/
- alt.malta
Yum, chocolate maltas are delicious.
- alt.management/
- alt.manga
Use rec.arts.manga instead.
- alt.manufacturing/
- alt.marketplace/
- alt.masonic/
- alt.math/
- alt.mcdonalds
Can I get fries with that?
- alt.mechwarrior2
Use alt.games.mechwarrior2 instead.
- alt.med/
- alt.medical/
- alt.meditation/
- alt.mega-ego/
- alt.memetics
The evolution of ideas in societies.
- alt.mens-rights
We hold these truths to be self-evident.
- alt.messianic
Messianic traditions.
- alt.mexico
The people of Central America's largest nation.
- alt.military/
- alt.mindcontrol
Are you sure those thoughts are really your own?
- alt.mining/
- alt.misanthropy
People who hate people.
- alt.misc/
- alt.missing-adults
Locating missing adults.
- alt.missing-kids
Locating missing children.
- alt.models
Use rec.models.* instead.
- alt.motd
The messages of the day.
- alt.motherjones
Mother Jones magazine.
- alt.mothersuperior
Not a sexual position.
- alt.motorcycle/
- alt.motorcycles/
- alt.motss/
- alt.mountain-bike
Use rec.bicycles.off-road instead.
- alt.movies/
- alt.msdos/
- alt.mud/
- alt.muff
Screw ups.
- alt.music/
- alt.my/
- alt.mythology/
- alt.native
People indigenous to an area before modern colonisation.
- alt.necromicon
Big time death wish.
- alt.necronomicon
Use alt.necromicon instead.
- alt.neo-tech
Books and ideas from Neo-Tech Publishing Company.
- alt.net/
- alt.netcom/
- alt.new-england
The USA's north eastern region.
- alt.newbie
The altnet housewarming committee.
- alt.newbies
Housewarming for a group.
- alt.newgroup/
- alt.news-media
Don't believe the hype.
- alt.news/
- alt.niteclub/
- alt.nocem/
- alt.noise
Ow, quit it.
- alt.non/
- alt.nosebeeping
Test newgroup goes wild in slapstick spoof.
- alt.npractitioners
Nurse practitioners.
- alt.nuke/
- alt.obituaries
Notices of dead folks.
- alt.office/
- alt.online-service/
- alt.org/
- alt.os/
- alt.out-of-body
Out of Body Experiences.
- alt.pagan/
- alt.pantyhose
Stockings are sexier.
- alt.parallel/
- alt.paranet/
- alt.paranormal/
- alt.parenting/
- alt.parents-teens
Parent-teenager relationships.
- alt.party
Parties, celebration and general debauchery.
- alt.pave/
- alt.peace-corps
The works of the Peace Corps.
- alt.peace/
- alt.peeves
Discussion of peeves & related.
- alt.penguin-fetish/
- alt.periphs/
- alt.personals/
- alt.pets/
- alt.ph/
- alt.philosophy/
- alt.phreaking
All about stealing phone service.
- alt.pinecone
The heart of camp arts & crafts.
- alt.pissed/
- alt.planning/
- alt.politics/
- alt.polyamory
For those with multiple loves.
- alt.postmodern
Postmodernism, semiotics, deconstruction, and the like.
- alt.president/
- alt.prisons
Can I get an alt.* feed in the slammer?.
- alt.privacy/
- alt.private/
- alt.projectmng
Project management.
- alt.prophecies/
- alt.prose/
- alt.psst/
- alt.psychoactives
Better living through chemistry.
- alt.psychology/
- alt.psychotic/
- alt.pub-ban/
- alt.pub/
- alt.publish/
- alt.pud
"Discussion of the TFiLE PuD!@#@#!@$!" Whatever.
- alt.pulp
Paperback fiction, newsprint production, orange juice.
- alt.punk/
- alt.pyrotechnics
Use rec.pyrotechnics instead.
- alt.ql/
- alt.quotations
Quotations, quips, .sig lines, witticisms, et al.
- alt.radio/
- alt.railroad
Use misc.transport.rail.misc instead.
- alt.random/
- alt.rap
Use rec.music.hip-hop instead.
- alt.rap-gdead
Fans of The Grateful Dead and Rap. Really.
- alt.rap/
- alt.rave
Techno-culture: music, dancing, drugs, dancing, etc.
- alt.real-estate-agents
Realty heads.
- alt.realtor/
- alt.rec/
- alt.recipes/
- alt.recovery/
- alt.red/
- alt.religion/
- alt.religon/
- alt.relocate
Setting up a new home in a far away place.
- alt.restaurants
Use rec.food.restaurants instead.
- alt.revenge
Two wrongs trying to make a right.
- alt.revisionism
"It CAN'T be that way 'cause here's the FACTS".
- alt.revolution/
- alt.rhode_island
A little state with apparently world wide interest.
- alt.rmgroup
For the people who like to rmgroup/newgroup things.
- alt.rock-n-roll/
- alt.rodney-king
Riot catalyst.
- alt.rodney/
- alt.romance/
- alt.rush-limbaugh
Fans of the conservative activist radio announcer.
- alt.russia/
- alt.rv
Rotten varmints or recreational vehicles, you decide.
- alt.sailing/
- alt.satanism
Not such a bad dude once you get to know him.
- alt.satellite/
- alt.save/
- alt.sb/
- alt.sca
Use rec.org.sca instead.
- alt.schmuck/
- alt.school/
- alt.schools/
- alt.sci/
- alt.scooter/
- alt.scottish/
- alt.security/
- alt.seduction/
- alt.sega/
- alt.self-esteem
Discussing self-esteem improvement and help.
- alt.self-improve
Self-improvement in less than 14 characters.
- alt.selfpity
Because we need it!
- alt.sewing
A group that is not as it seams.
- alt.sex/
- alt.sexual/
- alt.sexy/
- alt.sf4m
A group for forumites everywhere. We know who you are.
- alt.shared-reality/
- alt.shenanigans
Practical jokes, pranks, randomness, etc.
- alt.shoe/
- alt.showbiz/
- alt.shut/
- alt.sigma2/
- alt.silly-group/
- alt.silly/
- alt.skate
Use rec.sport.skating.* instead.
- alt.skate-board
Discussion of all apsects of skate-boarding.
- alt.skate/
- alt.skincare/
- alt.skinheads/
- alt.skunks
Le pew.
- alt.sl9
Crashing into Jupiter.
- alt.slack
Posting relating to the Church of the Subgenius.
- alt.smokers/
- alt.smouldering/
- alt.snail-mail
Mail sent on paper. Some people still do that.
- alt.snowmobiles
For bikers who don't like two wheels in snow and ice.
- alt.society/
- alt.soft-sys/
- alt.solar/
- alt.solaris/
- alt.soulmates
Richard Bach and his herculean odds.
- alt.sources/
- alt.spam/
- alt.speech/
- alt.spleen
Venting as a biological function.
- alt.sport/
- alt.sports/
- alt.stagecraft
Technical theatre issues.
- alt.starfleet/
- alt.startrek/
- alt.steinberg/
- alt.stephen/
- alt.stop/
- alt.stories/
- alt.students/
- alt.stupidity/
- alt.suburbs
Living on the skirt of the city.
- alt.sufi
Awakening to marriage of the sacred to everyday life.
- alt.suicide/
- alt.super/
- alt.supermodels/
- alt.support/
- alt.surfing/
- alt.surrealism
Surrealist ideologies and their influences.
- alt.sustainable/
- alt.svens/
- alt.swedish/
- alt.sys/
- alt.sysadmin/
- alt.taiwan/
- alt.talk/
- alt.tanya/
- alt.tarot
Your destiny is in the cards.
- alt.tasteless/
- alt.teachers/
- alt.technology/
- alt.teens/
- alt.telescopes/
- alt.tequilla
It becomes hard to spell when you drink too much.
- alt.test/
- alt.testing/
- alt.thinking/
- alt.this/
- alt.thought/
- alt.thrash
Thrashlife.
- alt.timewasters
A pretty good summary of making the list of alt groups.
- alt.tinygirls
Like alt.sex.fetish.waifs.
- alt.toolkits/
- alt.toys/
- alt.transgendered
Boys will be girls, and vice-versa.
- alt.travel/
- alt.treasure/
- alt.true-crime
Criminal acts around the world.
- alt.turn/
- alt.tv/
- alt.ucb/
- alt.ufc
No description.
- alt.ufo/
- alt.ultra-conservatives/
- alt.unix/
- alt.usa-sucks
Not like an Electolux.
- alt.usage/
- alt.usenet/
- alt.utensils/
- alt.uu/
- alt.vacation/
- alt.vampyres
Discussion of vampires and related writings, films, etc.
- alt.video/
- alt.virtual-adepts
Cybermagick and related issues.
- alt.visa/
- alt.war/
- alt.warez/
- alt.wedding
Use soc.couples.wedding instead.
- alt.wesley/
- alt.what/
- alt.white_house/
- alt.who/
- alt.windows/
- alt.windows95/
- alt.winsock/
- alt.wired
Wired Magazine.
- alt.wolves/
- alt.women/
- alt.wonderment/
- alt.www/
- alt.yoga
All forms and aspects of yoga.
- alt.zen
It is.
- alt.zen+budo
Zen in combination with budo & other martial arts.
- alt.zima
A clear malt beverage, better with lime.
- alt.zines
Small magazines, mostly noncommercial.
- alt.zorch
No description.
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