## ARKANE (Arkane Systems, UK )
# URL: http://www.arkane.demon.co.uk/Newsgroups.html
Cannot find this page, though domain does exist.

## AUS (Australia)
# URL: http://aus.news-admin.org/ 
Have posted checkgroups from 27 Aug 2002

## BA (San Francisco Bay Area, USA)
# URL: http://ennui.org/ba/
Working as of 27 August 2002

## BAYNET (Bayerische Buergernetze, Deutschland)
# URL: http://www.mayn.de/users/news/
Nothing useful as of 27 August 2002, but take an occasional peek?

## BE  (Belgique/Belgie/Belgien/Belgium )
# URL: http://usenet.be/
# Key URL: http://usenet.be/be.announce.newgroups.asc
Look at http://www.usenet.be/en/groups.html

## BIONET (Biology Network)
# URL: http://www.bio.net/
Posted a checkgroups to the net on 31 July 2002

## CA (California, USA)
# URL: http://www.sbay.org/ca/
Working as of 27 August 2002

## CH ( Switzerland )
# URL: http://www.use-net.ch/Usenet/
# Key URL: http://www.use-net.ch/Usenet/adminkey.html
Posted a checkgroups on 22 Oct 2001, nothing more current via
this Web site.

## CHILE (Chile and Chilean affairs) 
# URL: http://www.webhost.cl/~mod-cga
No such page.

## CITYSCAPE & DEMON (Cityscape Internet Services & Demon Internet, UK)
# URL: ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/news/doc/demon.news.txt
Just the PGP key, but do dig around.  (See ~/checkgroups/demon ...)

## CL (CL-Netz, German)
# URL: http://www.cl-netz.de/
# Key URL: http://www.cl-netz.de/control.txt
Posted a checkgroups to the net on 1 Sept 2002

## CONCORDIA (Concordia University, Montreal, Canada)
# URL: General University info at http://www.concordia.ca/
Found stuff at http://newsflash.concordia.ca/public/

## CPCU/IIA (American Institute for Chartered Property Casulty
# URL: www.aicpcu.org
No joy, no newsgroups?, no news...

## CZ newsgroups (Czech Republic)
# URL: ftp://ftp.vslib.cz/pub/news/config/cz/newsgroups (text)
# URL: http://www.ces.net/cgi-bin/newsgroups.p?cz  (HTML)

## DK (Denmark)
# URL: http://www.DK.net/Usenet/
# Key URL: http://www.DK.net/Usenet/pgp.html
Danish, relocated, slick, ???

## Easynet PLC
# URL: ftp://ftp.easynet.net/pub/usenet/easynet.control.txt
Disappeared...

## EE (Estonia)
# URL: http://news.ut.ee/
# Key URL: http://news.ut.ee/pubkey.asc
Checkgroups found at http://news.ut.ee/ee.checkgroups on 2 September 2002.

## ESP (Spanish-language newsgroups)
# URL: http://ennui.org/esp/
Found on 27 August 2002.

## EUROPA (Europe)
# URL: http://www.europa.usenet.eu.org/
checkgroups was posted 16 August 2002.

## FIDO.BELG.* newsgroups (FidoNet)
# URL: http://www.z2.fidonet.org/news/fido.belg.news/
checkgroups posted 4 April 2002, matches one on Web site 2 Sept 2002.

## FJ (Japan and Japanese language)
# URL: http://www.is.tsukuba.ac.jp/~yas/fj/
# Key URL: http://www.is.tsukuba.ac.jp/~yas/fj/fj.asc
checkgroups posted 3 April 2002, nothing (?) useful on Web page

## GOV (Government Information)
# URL: http://www.govnews.org/govnews/
# PGPKEY URL: http://www.govnews.org/govnews/site-setup/gov.pgpkeys
newgroup:*:gov.*:drop
Dead domain?

## HAMSTER (Hamster, a Win32 news and mail proxy server)
# URL: http://www.nethamster.org
# Key URL: http://www.nethamster.org/control/hamster.asc
checkgroups posted 1 Sept 2002

## HAN (Korean Hangul)
# PGPKEY URL: ftp://ftp.usenet.or.kr/pub/korea/usenet/pgp/PGPKEY.han

## HIVNET (HIVNET Foundation, for HIV+/AIDS information)
# PGPKEY URL: ftp://ftp.hivnet.org/pub/usenet/pgpkey.hivnet
Nothing useful.

## ITALIA (Italy)
# URL: http://news.cineca.it/italia/
# Key URL: http://news.cineca.it/italia/italia-pgp.txt
checkgroups posted 21 August 2002

## JAPAN (Japan)
# URL: http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~AE5T-KSN/japan-e.html
# PGP Key: http://grex.cyberspace.org/~tt/japan.admin.announce.asc
# PGP Key: http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~AE5T-KSN/japan/japan.admin.announce.asc
checkgroups posted 1 August 2002

## KA (Karlsruhe, Germany)
# URL: http://www.karlsruhe.org/             (German only)
# URL: http://www.karlsruhe.org/newsgroups   (newsgroup list)
checkgroups posted 15 August 2002

## MALTA ( Nation of Malta )
# URL: http://www.malta.news-admin.org/
checkgroups current as of 15 Aug 2002

## MEDLUX ( All-Russia medical teleconferences )
# URL: ftp://ftp.medlux.ru/pub/news/medlux.grp
Dated 1997, FTP'ed August 2002

## MI (Michigan, USA)
# URL: http://www.inland-sea.com/mi-news.html
# http://www.inland-sea.com/mi-news.html
checkgroups posted 1 Sept 2002

## NET newsgroups ( Usenet 2 )
# URL: http://www.usenet2.org
There's a checkgroups at http://www.usenet2.org/checkgroups.txt,
found in August 2002.

## NETSCAPE (Netscape Communications Corp)
# URL: http://www.mozilla.org/community.html
# URL: http://www.mozilla.org/newsfeeds.html

## NL (Netherlands)
# URL: http://www.xs4all.nl/~egavic/NL/ (Dutch)
# URL: http://www.kinkhorst.com/usenet/nladmin.en.html (English)
checkgroups posted 21 Aug 2002

## NL-ALT (Alternative Netherlands groups)
# URL: http://www.xs4all.nl/~onno/nl-alt/
Not there anymore.

## NZ (New Zealand)
# URL: http://usenet.net.nz
# URL: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/nz-news-hierarchy
Retrieved from faqs.org in August 2002.

## OTT (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
# Contact: onag@pinetree.org
# URL: http://www.pinetree.org/ONAG/
Now at http://onag.pinetree.org/

## PA (Pennsylvania, USA)
# URL: http://www.netcom.com/~rb1000/pa_hierarchy/
Retrieved August 2002.

## PUBNET 
# This Hierarchy is now defunct.
# URL: ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/control/pubnet/pubnet.config.Z

## RELCOM ( Commonwealth of Independent States)
# URL: ftp://ftp.kiae.su/relcom/netinfo/telconfs.txt
checkgroups posted 14 May 2002
The URL above is kaput, but good stuff (?) at
http://www.relcom.ru/English/Servers/News/Access/Tree/

## SAT (San Antonio, Texas, USA)
# URL: http://www.endicor.com/~satgroup/
checkgroups posted 1 Aug 2002

## SCHULE
# URL: http://home.pages.de/~schule-admin/
# Key URL: http://home.pages.de/~schule-admin/schule.asc
checkgroups found at http://www.afaik.de/usenet/admin/schule/control/checkgroups-latest, which should be authoritative.

## SDNET (Greater San Diego Area, California, USA)
# URL: http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/staff/wk/w/sdnet.html
# URL: http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/staff/wk/w/config.html
# URL: ftp://ftp.csu.net/pub/news/active
checkgroups posted 31 Aug 2002

## SE (Sweden)
# URL: http://www.usenet-se.net/
# URL: http://www.usenet-se.net/index_eng.html  (English version)
# Key URL:  http://www.usenet-se.net/pgp-key.txt
Found something, but can't pull up the checkgroups (site down?)

## StarOffice (Sun Microsystems, Inc.)
# URL: http://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/newsgroups.html
checkgroups posted 3 August 2002

## UFRA (Unterfranken, Deutschland)
# URL: http://www.mayn.de/users/news/
Nothing useful as of 27 August 2002, but take an occasional peek?

## UN (The United Nations)
# URL: http://www.itu.int/Conferences/un/
Nothing to be found.

## WALES (Wales)
# URL: http://www.wales-usenet.org/
Found some stuff, August 2002