Click on any of the highlighted newsgroup names to participate in an
on-going discussion on that topic. Many of these newsgroups are frequented
by experts who are only too happy to answer any and all questions you might
have about subjects in their field. Be careful though: always consider
the course when reading a reply.
There is also something called Netiquette, an informal set of rules
governing how and where to post messages.
If you don't know your Netiquette (and even if you think you do) please
visit the following groups first:
- news.announce.newusers
- Regular postings of incredibly useful information for newbies. READ,
READ, READ!
- news.newusers.questions
- The only problem with this group is that there are a superfluity of
questioners and a dearth of answerers--for the obvious reason that experts
don't frequent a newusers group. But a few kind souls do just that and
make this group worth visiting.
WARNING! Most newgroups are unmoderated and anyone can post anything
they want. You will most certainly find strong language wherever you go.
See our Caveat
for further information.
Newsgroups
- alt.discrimination
- This is the place to debate affirmative action. If you sift through
all the noise, there's some real information here.
- alt.current-events.bosnia
- Posters to this group include Bosnians and Serbs living in war torn
areas of the Former Yugoslavia. Ongoing debates about `ethnic cleansing.'
See also misc.news.bosnia for
recent articles and news releases.
- alt.society.civil-liberty
- There's a lot of talk here that could go in
alt.politics.nationalism.white
(See below) but it's also the place to discuss the Constitution,
Freedom of Speech, and the legal aspects of Affirmative Action and other
issues.
- soc.culture.african
- This is a good place to discuss current events, African history: alot
of conversation between native-born Africans and African-Americans.
- soc.culture.african.american
- Threads on this newsgroup when I visited included inter-racial adoption,
inter-racial dating, what it means to be 'black', and a request for info
on Marcus Garvey.
- soc.history
- What is the origin of the southern accent? Who shot the nose off the
Sphinx? And the burning question on everyone's mind: Lizzie Borden, guilty
or innocent? This seems to be great place to hang around if you like your
current events well done!
- soc.history.moderated
- A sanctuary from name-calling, spamming, and irrelevant postings. Some
nice person looks at each message before posting it. I don't know what
their criteria are for posting, but if your message doesn't belong on the
group list, they will email you and let you know why. Did someone say 'spam'?
- soc.history.war.world-war-ii
- There are a lot of cross-postings here from alt.revisionism and
soc.culture.jewish.holocaust,
for obvious reasons. It's also the place to ask more general questions
about WWII.
- soc.culture.jewish
- This group is relatively free of real anti-semitic traffic. Posters
concentrate on questions relating more specifically to aspects of Jewish
culture. One of the few truly international lists on the net with posters
from around the world.
- soc.culture.jewish.holocaust
- Of course revisionists creep into the discussion, but this is also
the place for Holocaust survivors and Holocaust historians to share what
they know.
Newsgroups on controversial subjects relating to bigotry
- alt.conspiracy
- As much a forum for humor as for serious discussion, topics range from
the O.J. Simpson Trial to the so-called 'International Jewish Conspiracy.'
- alt.politics.nationalism.white
- If you've been feeling stressed out lately, light some incense, find
a nice quiet place and DON'T READ THIS NEWSGROUP! For those of you willing
to brave it, you'll find more overt anti-semitism and racism than you ever
thought possible. And you'll meet the hardy souls who frequent this group
just to combat the bigotry being advocated.
- alt.politics.white-power
- So much cross-posting goes on between this and
alt.politics.nationalism.white
that they are mostly the same group.
- alt.revisionism
- Holocaust Experts go head-to-head with 'revisionists' in a discussion
of Nazi genocide. Some say revisionists shouldn't be dignified with a
response.
Others say their ideas need to be exposed as lies.
- talk.politics.guns
- An open forum on gun-control and gun-ownership, this newsgroup also
attracts lively debates about the Militia movement, and conspiracy theories
of all sorts.
The Coalition have tried to give a good overview of these newsgroups, but
if you think I misrepresented any group's raison d'être, please let me
know. Did I leave out a really great group? Just click
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