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    From VanguardLH@21:1/5 to Peter Percival on Tue May 31 22:55:02 2016
    Peter Percival wrote:

    Can anyone tell me what newsgroups are in bham.*? If I ask my
    newsreader it says bham.test only, but that'll be (I suppose) because Albasani only carries that one. I hope that somewhere there is a
    definitive list.

    You retrieve the list of newsgroups for the particular NNTP server to
    which you connect. No exhaustive list of every newsgroup carried on
    every NNTP server now or in the past will represent the newsgroups that
    your particular NNTP server will carry. You have to find out which ones
    YOUR newsgroup provider carries.

    If bham.test is the only newsgroup that Albasani carries and you want to
    see if there are more then you have to connect to a different NNTP
    server and get its list of newsgroups. bham looks to be some remnant
    garbage group.

    http://www.harley.com/usenet/master-list/
    That doesn't mean a newsgroup will be available on the NNTP servers to
    which you connect, or that it is a non-junk newsgroup just because your
    NNTP server carries it. There are about 120,000 newsgroups of which a
    large number are junk (some deliberately created that are garbage).

    http://www.giganews.com/newsgroup_search.html
    Obviously only lists newsgroups carried by Giganews. I'm not sure there
    is a bigger Usenet provider. They may not carry newsgroup that cater to illegal content that perhaps you find on other NNTP servers. Then did
    list a few newsgroups containing "bham" but only one that *start* with
    "bham" (bham.test).

    NOTE: Signatures should be limited to 4 lines (or eliminated since they
    are rarely on-topic hence they are spam).

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  • From Peter Percival@21:1/5 to All on Tue May 31 17:10:02 2016
    Can anyone tell me what newsgroups are in bham.*? If I ask my
    newsreader it says bham.test only, but that'll be (I suppose) because
    Albasani only carries that one. I hope that somewhere there is a
    definitive list.
    --
    A high and rising proportion of children are being born to mothers
    least fitted to bring children into the world.... Some are of low
    intelligence, most of low educational attainment. They are unlikely
    to be able to give children the stable emotional background, the
    consistent combination of love and firmness.... They are producing
    problem children.... The balance of our human stock, is threatened...
    Sir Keith Joseph

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  • From Whiskers@21:1/5 to Peter Percival on Tue May 31 22:55:02 2016
    On 2016-05-31, Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> wrote:
    Can anyone tell me what newsgroups are in bham.*? If I ask my
    newsreader it says bham.test only, but that'll be (I suppose) because Albasani only carries that one. I hope that somewhere there is a
    definitive list.

    News.individual.net has no groups in that hierarchy. They seem to be
    local to the news-server operated by and for the University of
    Birmingham in England (according to this page dated 1996) <https://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/help/usenet>.

    --
    -- ^^^^^^^^^^
    -- Whiskers
    -- ~~~~~~~~~~

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  • From Peter Percival@21:1/5 to Whiskers on Sun Jun 19 20:50:02 2016
    Whiskers wrote:
    On 2016-05-31, Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> wrote:
    Can anyone tell me what newsgroups are in bham.*? If I ask my
    newsreader it says bham.test only, but that'll be (I suppose) because
    Albasani only carries that one. I hope that somewhere there is a
    definitive list.

    News.individual.net has no groups in that hierarchy. They seem to be
    local to the news-server operated by and for the University of
    Birmingham in England (according to this page dated 1996) <https://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/help/usenet>.


    Thank you.

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