Usenet Newsgroups

Usenet newsgroups are internet discussion groups. At first usenet newsgroups were to share or publish text information/foundings on just about any topic you can imagine. Nowadays usenet newsgroups are used to post binary (movies, music and games) files on and still it is used to publish text information and foundings. Usenet consists of 9 hierarchies, if you don't know what hierarchies are, find out under usenet explained.

Usenet Newsgroup Access

Underneath these hierarchies usenet newsgroups were ordened. Such as alt.binaries.boneless and alt.binaries.tv. In these usenet newsgroups, posts (such as movies, games and music) are uploaded and shared on all servers (usenet servers), which are giving access to these usenet newsgroups. If you are connected with a usenet server which is giving access to usenet newsgroups, you are able to download all the latest posts (such as movies, games, music) in these usenet newsgroups. You can download them because you have access to these usenet newsgroups via your server (usenet server).

Below you will find the list of server and how many newsgroups they can access.

Binverse: over 100.000 newsgroups
Giganews:over 107.000 newsgroups
Newshosting: over 100.000 newsgroups
Newsgroupdirect: ?
Easynews: over 57.000 newsgroups
UseNeXT: over 60.000 newsgroups
Power Usenet: over 110.000 newsgroups
Ngroups: over 85.000 newsgroups
Supernews: over 110.000 newsgroups
Thundernews: over 85.000 newsgroups
Rhino Newsgroups: over 110.000 newsgroups
Usenet.net: over 110.000 newsgroups
Firstload: over 60.000 newsgroups
UsenetServer: over 100.000 newsgroups