If your host carries a lot of news groups, it will take a while to generate your list. These lists are most useful when you want to use the search abilities of your browser to search through a list. Joe's List from the University of Oregon Lists of news groups are regularly posted to the group new.lists . Each of these periodic postings is archived on many servers around the world. About News Groups Discussion about proposed new groups takes place in news.groups and announcements about new and existing groups are posted to news.announce.newgroups .
People help each other find news groups in news.groups.questions .
Reviews of news groups are posted to news.groups.reviews . As mentioned above, new groups are announced in news.announce.newgroups .