| The_Face_Header A proposed improvement to the X-Face header. The Face header is a PNG image whereas X-Faces are one-bit images. |
| MessageFaces Extension that adds X-Face and Face image compatibility to Mozilla Thunderbird. Also hosts a FAQ and a quick guide for Face image creation. |
| Mozdev_org__Mnenhy Amongst several enhancements to SeaMonkey Mail/News and Mozilla Thunderbird, brings the possibility of displaying X-Face headers. |
| Mythic-beasts_com__X-Face Includes a brief explanation of the X-Face format and an online Jpeg to X-Face converter along with its source code. |
| Wikipedia__X-Face Brief description of this header, its history and a list of compatible software. |
| news_newusers_questions__Creating_New_Newsgroups Information on how to create newsgroups - guidelines for choosing a hierarchy, as well as notes on newsgroup creation in various hierarchies. |
| Why_Ask_Questions_in_Public? Briefly explains advantages of asking technical questions in public rather than e-mailing them directly to a group member. Written and placed in the public domain by Russ Allbery. |
| Gopher_quux_org___Usenet_A_News Hosts articles from 1981 and 1982, which means long before the Great Renaming, for historical purposes. |
| Juta_-_Usenet_Traffic_Analyzer Command line tools to process Usenet postings, including generating statistics. Open source under GNU GPL. |
| Kleinvaag\'s_Post_Assistant A freeware utility for Windows that creates a SFV file, a .nfo file including track list and a Winamp playlist file all in once. |
| NNTPspider A cross platform, open source application written in Perl which searches public news servers. |
| OSSP__lmtp2nntp Open source local mail transfer protocol service for use in conjunction with a Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) like Sendmail or Postfix, providing a real-time mail to news gateway. |
| PHP_News_Reader An open source Web-based news client. |
| TR_Newsportal A modified version of the open source Newsportal Usenet-Web gateway. |
| TurboZen_com__yEnc_TZ Open source utility that decodes files in yEnc, UUencode and Base 64 formats widely used on binary newsgroups. Versions available for Mac OS 7, 8, 9, and X as well as Motorola 68K based Macintoshes. |
| Usenet-Web_1_0_2 A free Usenet permanent archiving and web presentation tool written in Perl. |
| UUDeview Open source tool that includes both and encoder and a decoder able to handle Base64, BinHex, UUencode, XXencode and yEnc formats. Versions for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and DOS are available. |
| W3news A flexible CGI tool that implements a Usenet newsreader through HTML pages. GPL'ed. Has been tested on GNU/Linux. |
| Bytemine Provides free access to text-only newsgroups upon request. |
| Cnntp_org Provides free access to text-only newsgroups. Registration required; server status and statistics available. |
| Datemas_Internet_News_Server Provides free access to text newsgroups only. Registration required. |
| Dotsrc_org__Usenet Provides public access to local, danish, and some international newsgroups, and closed access to Aalborg University campus newsgroups. |
| Free_Usenet_News_Servers Continuously updated database of Usenet servers. Includes ability to search for servers based on newsgroups carried and results can be sorted based on various criteria. |
| Newsparrot A collection of servers regularly tested and verified to check for the availability of newsgroups, headers, speed and posting. |
| Open_News_Network A network both in the technological and in the social sense. It aims to provide open, non commercial access to text based Usenet. |
| Usenet4all_se Provides free access to text newsgroups only. Registration by sending an empty e-mail required. |
| borland_* Presentation of this hierarchy provided as a user supported area to exchange information, tips and techniques for the community of Borland customers. |
| it_* Site in Italian and English. Includes the PGP key for verifying control messages, servers configuration FAQ for the hierarchy and the latest checkgroups control message. |
| Trigofacile_com__Hierarchies Canonical list of managed, unmanaged, local and private hierarchies with information on how to carry them: newsgroups list, PGP key, contact, URL. |
| Dbforums Provides access to database-related groups. Requires free registration for some features. |
| Jeremino_homeunix_net Based on the open source NewsPortal software, provides free access to many hierarchies, including some binary newsgroups. Free registration required. |
| Mailarchive_ca Read-only access to a collection of newsgroups, some of them being archived since 2001. |
| 1-script_com__Web_Developer\'s_Archive Archives messages in the Usenet groups that are relevant to web development, design and programming. |
| Synchro_net A read-only Gopher gateway to some newsgroups focusing on programming and BBS systems. |
| Usenet_-forums_com Read-only access to GNU/Linux, programming and some other technical newsgroups. |
| Usenet_com_au A free service that archives popular Australian newsgroups. Also includes a section on Usenet terms and netiquette and a truncated URL service. |
| Advertising_on_Usenet__How_to_do_it,_How_not_to_do_it_ Explains some Usenet conventions regarding advertising to new users. |
| Usenet_Death_Penalty_FAQ Detailed explanation of Usenet Death Penalties, also known as UDPs. Apparently not updated anymore, but the basics of UDPs have not changed. |
| alt_folklore_urban Inludes the FAQ and a searchable archive of the newsgroup. |
| alt_usenet_kooks The subscribers to the group regularly hold votes to label people as "recipients" of various mock awards. Includes the FAQ, a list of award winners and kookle, a kook award search engine. |
