UK Usenet Homepages

Welcome to the homepages of UK Usenet, brought to you on behalf of the Uk Usenet Committee. We have tried to gather together here information, both official and otherwise, which should be of assistance to Usenet readers within the UK.

Newsgroups and Charters

Where can I find a complete list of the Newsgroups within the uk.* hierarchy, and where are their Charters? Answer: "here"! There are also charters provided for each sub-hierarchy in uk.*.

• Index to Newsgroups including Newsgroup Lines, moderation status, and links to the Charter for each Newsgroup. See also checkgroups.
• UK Hierarchy Charters

Useful information

• Useful Information about Usenet - especially within the UK. In particular, the first part of this contains things which EVERY Usenet reader is presumed to know about. Do YOU?

  Included within this you will find:

  • What EVERY Usenet User should know
  • Netiquette
  • What newsgroups exist?
  • What about Moderated Newsgroups?
  • More about Writing Articles
  • Creating a new newsgroup
  • Net Abuse
  • Technical Stuff
  • Miscellaneous Stuff
  • Commonly used Abbreviations
  • Comments and Suggestions
• Guidelines on uk.* Newsgroup Names - how newsgroups should be named.
• NewsAdmins FAQ - useful information for UK System Administrators.
• checkgroups - a list of uk.* newswgroups in 'checkgroups' format.
• Uk-Voting Home Pages
• The Uk Usenet Mentors (website currently not available)

Newsgroup Management Documents

Who or what decides which newsgroups officially belong in the uk.* hierarchy, and how are changes to this made? The following are the official documents which establish this. They are the nearest thing to 'legal documents' that you ever get in Usenet.

Creation

Guidelines for Group Creation within the UK hierarchy

Voting

Voting Procedures within the UK hierarchy

Committee

The UK Usenet Committee

Mentors

Guidelines for Uk Usenet Mentors

Comments

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