USENET

I'm a big fan of USENET (newsgroups).

Instead of complaining about the content of certain newsgroups I prefer to initiate new newsgroups to add to the nl.* hierarchy. So far I've found the time and energy to cause:

• nl.kunst.film my favorite with the Dutch filmmakers clan I sort of know. The charter about it
  
• nl.comp.sys.mac very practical, this is where I learned what I know about Macs, this is the charter
  
• nl.fiets, when I was green and got a new bike I used to post here, now I don't visit it anymore
  
• nl.doe-het-zelf, I thought I needed advice on rebuilding my house, but created the newsgroup instead of actually doing it :-)
  
• nl.media.dvd to get rid of the DVD postings in nl.kunst.film
  
• nl.taal.citaten as a sort of failed imitation of alt.humor.best-of-usenet but it ended up as a regular group with quotes
• nl.taal.engels for those Dutch who need help with the English language, like me sometimes. This is the charter

Mailinglists

but I also manage or used to manage these mailinglists:

• RRR, things I want to broadcast (Dutch only so far)
• heimat123.net/mailinglist.html about the Heimat trilogy by Edgar Reitz

for all the mailinglists I currently maintain, see the Mailman interface for it.

And these ones have ceased to be:
• bigbrother@node10207.a2000.nl with daily updates about the revolutionary sensational and utterly boring tv-show
  
• cw-lijst@uva.nl for communication students
  
• computers@uva.nl computer blabla on university
  
• for-stud@uva.nl help for foreign students in Amsterdam
  
• discorsi-l@uva.nl for the student paper Discorsi
  
• pcc-l@dds.nl and
• pcc-nl@dds.nl for the People's Communication Charter.
  

Use the Reference.com service to browse the contributions to these mailinglists.