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!Archived control messages from news.announce.newgroups  
!Archived control messages from news.announce.newgroups  
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|[ftp://ftp.isc.org/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/ ftp root directory for news.announce.newgroups]  
|[https://ftp.isc.org/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/ ftp root directory for news.announce.newgroups]  
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|[ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/active ISC CONFIG list of active newsgroups]  
|[https://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/active ISC CONFIG list of active newsgroups]  
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|[ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/control/ ISC archive of control messages]  
|[https://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/control/ ISC archive of control messages]  
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|[[Checkgroups]]--the canonical list.
|[[Checkgroups]]--the canonical list.
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|[ftp://ftp.isc.org/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/Group_Lists ftp version of Checkgroups]  
|[https://ftp.isc.org/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/Group_Lists ftp version of Checkgroups]  
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!Archives of charters and RFDs for each hierarchy  
!Archives of charters and RFDs for each hierarchy  
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|[ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/ Top level directory.]
|[https://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/ Top level directory.]
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|[ftp://ftp.isc.org/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/comp comp.*]  
|[https://ftp.isc.org/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/comp comp.*]  
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|[ftp://ftp.isc.org/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/humanities humanities.*]  
|[https://ftp.isc.org/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/humanities humanities.*]  
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|[ftp://ftp.isc.org/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/misc misc.*]  
|[https://ftp.isc.org/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/misc misc.*]  
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|[ftp://ftp.isc.org/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/news news.*]  
|[https://ftp.isc.org/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/news news.*]  
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|[ftp://ftp.isc.org/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/rec rec.*]  
|[https://ftp.isc.org/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/rec rec.*]  
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|[ftp://ftp.isc.org/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/sci sci.*]  
|[https://ftp.isc.org/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/sci sci.*]  
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|[ftp://ftp.isc.org/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/soc soc.*]  
|[https://ftp.isc.org/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/soc soc.*]  
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|[ftp://ftp.isc.org/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/talk talk.*]  
|[https://ftp.isc.org/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/talk talk.*]  
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Latest revision as of 21:04, 23 February 2022

The Systems Consortium (ISC) is a non-profit corporation that supports "the infrastructure of the universal connected self-organizing Internet--and the autonomy of its participants--by developing and maintaining core production quality software, protocols, and operations." One of the services that the ISC donates to Usenet is set of ftp archives in which the official (canonical) list of Big-8 groups is maintained along with the control messages that created the groups.

In the control messages are the original charters (if any) of each newsgroup.

The ISC Newsgroup Archives

Archived control messages from news.announce.newgroups
ftp root directory for news.announce.newgroups
ISC CONFIG list of active newsgroups
ISC archive of control messages
Checkgroups--the canonical list.
ftp version of Checkgroups
Archives of charters and RFDs for each hierarchy
Top level directory.
comp.*
humanities.*
misc.*
news.*
rec.*
sci.*
soc.*
talk.*