From Newsgroup: news.groups


99.9999% of usenet is troll farm, where "discussion" is almost entirely chatbots chatting/chattering coactively, filling active newsgroups with
their "nothing burger" some thirty-two years under trollfarm occupation, withal, some newsgroups (not many) still attract non-robot contributors:

(using Tor Browser 15.0.5)
https://downloads.isc.org/usenet/CONFIG/

Index of /usenet/CONFIG
[ICO] Name Last modified Size Description
[ ] Parent Directory
[TXT] HIERARCHY-NOTES 2010-01-18 03:50 27K
[DIR] LOGS/ 2026-02-01 01:00 -
[TXT] README 2019-01-07 02:58 14K
[ ] active 2026-02-02 13:00 2.0M >https://downloads.isc.org/usenet/CONFIG/active *
[ ] active.bz2 2026-02-02 13:00 264K
[ ] active.gz 2026-02-02 13:00 292K
[TXT] control.ctl 2023-08-05 15:57 104K
[ ] newsgroups 2026-02-02 13:00 2.3M
[ ] newsgroups.bz2 2026-02-02 13:00 620K
[ ] newsgroups.gz 2026-02-02 13:00 685K
...

*(45187 lines / 2172291 bytes / 2.17 megabytes) . . .

https://downloads.isc.org/usenet/CONFIG/active
aaa.inu-chan 0000000000 0000000001 m
...

<snipped 45185 lines>

...
zippo.spamhippo.top100 0000000000 0000000001 m

[end quoted plain text]

*.*
39370 y
5811 m
6 n
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45187 total


alt.binaries.*
2569 y
50 m
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2619 b

unmoderated usenet newsgroups are still useful as the public repository
for lurkers and researchers, to that extent kudos to nntp server admins
for collectively sustaining this internet-accessible plain text library,
but any conversation between non-robot participants is a million-to-one

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