Com Search archived messages for many newsgroups and mailing lists. You can also post messages to newsgroups from this Web site. Infoseek Search for and read Usenet newsgroup articles and FAQs. HotBot Hotbot also allows you to search newsgroup posts. Browse a hierarchical list of known public newsgroup archives.
Some universities provide public access to their news servers via gopher.
Yahoo provides links to several lists of these public access sites. This is the place to see what new newsgroups have been created lately.