From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Subject: Political newsgroups on Usenet
Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 06:49:50 GMT

Alt.activism ranks surprisingly high in the newsgroup statistics -
though to me it seems that most of the discussion has little to with
activism but rather "alt.us.politics" as in alternative (meaning
something like "non-demopublican") U.S. politics.

In any case, it has many interesting articles in it.  In case you
might be interested in other political topics and other newsgroups,
here's a grep of some political newsgroups (choice of groups biased by
my personal interests) in the October 1992 statistics:

egrep 'politics|activism|libert|censorship|eff|acad-freedom|privacy'

  23  68000  2120   67%   498  2901.9    48%  0.06   4.4%  alt.activism 
  38  58000  1796   70%  4231 12569.8    54%  0.29   3.7%  talk.politics.misc 
 193  31000   963   64%   177   465.7    67%  0.02   2.0%  alt.censorship 
 195  31000   957   59%   218   825.8    37%  0.03   2.0%  alt.activism.d 
 269  26000   823   79%   328   917.1    44%  0.05   1.7%  comp.org.eff.talk 
 393  22000   685   57%   117   280.5    12%  0.01   1.4%  alt.politics.homosexuality 
 455  20000   619   51%  3138  8055.0    59%  0.40   1.3%  alt.politics.elections 
 477  19000   601   68%   868  2251.5    12%  0.15   1.2%  talk.politics.guns 
 486  19000   595   69%   718  1840.6     4%  0.13   1.2%  talk.politics.mideast 
 487  19000   595   60%    70   250.5    14%  0.02   1.2%  alt.privacy 
 554  18000   547   67%    58   117.0     0%  0.01   1.1%  comp.society.privacy 
 562  18000   545   46%  2391  6860.4    61%  0.34   1.1%  alt.politics.clinton 
 624  16000   505   68%   280   817.2    25%  0.07   1.0%  talk.politics.soviet 
 649  16000   491   59%   203   706.8    48%  0.05   1.0%  alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk 
 670  16000   483   69%    95   388.3    22%  0.03   1.0%  talk.politics.theory 
 693  15000   476   75%     4    60.8    75%  0.01   1.0%  comp.org.eff.news 
 768  14000   428   63%   268   632.9    46%  0.05   0.9%  talk.politics.drugs 
 789  13000   418   42%  1702  4824.7    70%  0.30   0.9%  alt.politics.bush 
 815  13000   407   55%    58   113.8    49%  0.01   0.8%  alt.politics.correct 
 824  13000   404   55%   132   466.0    77%  0.04   0.8%  alt.society.civil-liberty 
 836  13000   399   41%     -       -      -     -   0.8%  alt.politics.perot 
 865  12000   381   67%   909  5923.1    27%  0.64   0.8%  misc.activism.progressive 
1099   8900   275   43%   669  1620.9     7%  0.15   0.6%  talk.politics.china 
1131   8300   259   35%    17    30.4     0%  0.00   0.5%  alt.aeffle.und.pferdle 
1171   7800   243   68%    10    41.1     0%  0.01   0.5%  soc.politics 
1172   7800   243   57%    78   244.4    44%  0.03   0.5%  talk.politics.space 
1193   7600   235   28%   326   793.2    20%  0.06   0.5%  ca.politics 
1209   7300   227   37%     -       -      -     -   0.5%  alt.politics.marrou 
1250   6800   211   12%    77   311.9    93%  0.01   0.4%  clari.news.politics 
1297   6300   196   33%     -       -      -     -   0.4%  alt.politics.libertarian 
1324   6000   186   52%   703  2200.0     2%  0.37   0.4%  talk.politics.animals 
1341   5800   180   26%    35    74.7     3%  0.01   0.4%  eunet.politics 
1387   5200   162   46%     2     2.5     0%  0.00   0.3%  alt.society.civil-liberties 
1389   5200   162   14%   507  1212.2     7%  0.07   0.3%  tx.politics 
1413   5000   154   22%   339   883.8    39%  0.08   0.3%  ba.politics 
1439   4600   143   41%     -       -      -     -   0.3%  alt.politics.british 
1443   4500   140   50%     6   307.3     0%  0.07   0.3%  alt.comp.acad-freedom.news 
1480   4000   125   17%  1011  2203.4    25%  0.19   0.3%  can.politics 
1485   4000   123   68%     -       -      -     -   0.3%  soc.politics.arms-d 
1548   3000    93   17%   169   318.0     9%  0.03   0.2%  ne.politics 
1577   2400    74    9%    97   397.1    41%  0.03   0.2%  or.politics 
1590   2100    65   23%    17    26.8     0%  0.01   0.1%  trial.talk.politics.peace 
1599   2000    62   14%   202   492.9     1%  0.07   0.1%  aus.politics 

//Jyrki
Newsgroups: alt.activism