1.7.2 Which are the related newsgroups in the Nordic hierarchies?
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This article is from the Nordic countries FAQ, by Antti Lahelma and Johan Olofsson, with numerous contributions by others.
1.7.2 Which are the related newsgroups in the Nordic hierarchies?
In the national hierarchies all discussion is in the Nordic languages,
often on Nordic topics. The main hierarchies (except for the Icelandic
is.* hierarchy, I've been told) can be accessed and posted to from
abroad. It is, however, up to your system administrator to decide
whether or not your site will receive them; contact him/her if you
would like for your site to carry them. If he refuses, it may be
possible (although not necessarily very convenient) to access some of
them via a mailing-list to which the newsgroup is mirrored. You can
also search for a "public NNTP server" in Scandinavia that carries
these groups, and set your newsreader to use it instead of the server
your own site normally uses - in a Unix shell, this can be done with
the command
"setenv NNTPSERVER <name of server>".
Different kinds of FAQs also exist to guide the many Nordic newcommers
to Internet and to Usenet, as for instance the Danish OSS - Ofte
stillede spørgsmål, and a Swedish Sidor för nybörjare together with a
current full list of "swnet.*" groups which can be obtained by WWW
from the URL: <http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d1dd/faq/>.
When you read s.c.n, check the headers of posts coming from the Nordic
countries, see the line "NNTP-Posting-Host" or the second last domain
of the "Path" line, and try to set these as your NNTP server. Most
servers only allow their own users to access them and it can be
difficult to find a public server, especially one that allows you not
just read but also post, but with some trying or asking around you
should be able to find them.
Here are some examples of newsgroups from each of the main Nordic
hierarchies (there are, of course, tens if not hundreds of groups
other than these in the hierarchies, on various topics):
swnet.diverse A group on miscellaneous topics in Swedish.
swnet.svenska Swedes talking about the Swedish language in Swedish.
swnet.filosofi Swedes philosophizing.
no.general General topics in Norwegian.
no.alt.frustjasoner Frustrated Norwegians.
dk.chat Danes chatting.
dk.general More chatter in Danish.
sfnet.keskustelu.ihmissuhteet Finns wrestling with human relations.
sfnet.huuhaa Verbal acrobatics and idle talk in Finnish.
finet.svenska.prat An alternative Finnish hierarchy; this
group, but not all of the hierarchy, is
in Swedish.
An up to date list of all groups in the sfnet.* hierarchy can be
acquired by anonymous FTP from
<ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/netinfo/gc/sfnet.ryhmalista/>
.
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