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   When you review our various conference areas beyond the first 150 you may
   become confused unless you are already familiar with the various
   networks and their coverage. This bulletin is not intended to be a
   tutorial on these various networks, but rather a brief summary of each.


   UUNET or Usenet

      Usenet offers a traditional set of "newsgroups" or topics which are
      carried by most UUNET sites around the world.


   UUNET ALTERNATE topics

      These news groups often have restricted spheres of interest, high
      volume or a different set of administrative rules.  They are available
      through UUNET but are not carried by all sites.


   BIONET

      Offers topics of interest to biologists.


   BIZ

      These news groups are carried and propagated by sites interested in the
      world of business products around them - in particular, computer
      products and services.


   GNU or gnUSENET

      These groups are gated with the Internet mailing lists of the GNU
      Project of the Free Software Foundation. GNU (GNU's Not Unix) will be a
      complete OS, including application programs, with freely distributable
      source code.


   INET/DNN

      Consists of many newsgroups bearing names similar to traditional Usenet
      groups and corresponding to Internet discussion lists.


   K12NET

      K12Net is loosely-organized, decentralized network of school
      based/oriented "electronic bulletin board systems" throughout North
      America, Australia and Europe that share curriculum-related message
      bases or echo forums, classroom to classroom projects and education
      files.


   VMSNET

      Topics of interest to VAX/VMS users.