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What exactly is Usenet? As defined by MIT in What is Usenet, Usenet is a "world-wide distributed discussion system". By using Usenet, people "exchange articles tagged with one or more universally-recognised labels, called newsgroups." For more information and a hypertext version of Usenet Help, click here.

The section includes some WWW-based Indices and Search Engines for browsing and finding newsgroups. Some of these sites even include a searchable index, similar to other popular Web Search Tools. This is followed by a list of newsgroups related to Internet Marketing Research.

Usenet Newsgroups Index

Usenet Info Center Launch Pad	A general guide to Usenet newsgroups, including help and a list of newgroup hierarchy.
Find Newsgroups	Another WWW-based index of Usenet newsgroups, with a searchable index.
Open News Servers	If the news server you are using does not carry the newsgroups you want, this is a list of other news servers that you could try instead.
Public News Server List	This is another list of free and public access news servers around the world, maintained by Jens Heggblum.

Newsgroup Search Engines

Deja News	A large Usenet archive with over 80 million articles and indexed 15,000 newsgroups.
	Enter one of your interests below, to find which newsgroups talk about it:
Alta Vista Newsgroup Search	Full-text of 4 million articles from 14,000 newsgroups.
	Search and Display the Results
Excite Usenet Search	Another Usenet search engine.
	What: Where:
InReference, Inc.	With a 6+ month archive of more than 16,000 newsgroups.
	Search in and order results
Tile.net/News	The "complete reference to Usenet newsgroups".

Newsgroup List

The following newsgroups are accessed through the HKBU Computing and Telecommunications Services Centre (CTSC) news server. When you click on any one of the following links, a separate NEWS window will be opened.

To learn more about on "How to Join a Usenet Newsgroup", click here.

If the CTSC news server no longer carries a particular newsgroup, you will need to try other news servers instead. The Open News Servers contain a list of news servers (such as Siwash (Canada) News Server or Macro4.com) which are free to access, have good response times, and have a comprehensive news feed.

Please also note that this is only a partial list of marketing-related newsgroups. For a more comprehensive newsgroup list, you may try the newsgroup list maintained at the Nijenrode Business Webserver.

alt.business.misc	Miscellaneous business issues.
alt.business.import-export	Export/Import issues.
biz.next.newprod	New products ...
misc.entrepreneurs	Miscellaneous business issues.
hk.biz.general	Discussion of general Hong Kong business issues.
misc.business. marketing.moderated	A moderated discussion group on various marketing topics.
misc.consumers	Consumer interests, products reviews, etc.

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