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 As noted in "[[:publications:quarter_century_of_unix|A Quarter Century of Unix]]", Usenet played an important role for Unix users to exchange bug fixes and third-party source code, and just to communicate with each other. Here are links to some relevant newsgroups.
+[[ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/archive/comp.sources/bugs/|comp.sources.bugs]]: Bug fixes to systems and applications
 [[http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/usenet/ftp.uu.net/comp.sources.games/|comp.sources.games]]: Source code to games, some of which run on Unix
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 [[http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/usenet/ftp.uu.net/comp.sources.sun/|comp.sources.sun]]: Third-party source code for Sun systems
-[[http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/usenet/ftp.uu.net/comp.sources.x/|comp.sources.x]]: Source code related to the X Windowing System
 [[http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/usenet/ftp.uu.net/comp.sources.unix/|comp.sources.unix]]: Third-party source code for Unix systems
+[[http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/usenet/ftp.uu.net/comp.sources.x/|comp.sources.x]]: Source code related to the X Windowing System
 [[http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Bug_Fixes/Net.v7bugs/|net.v7bugs]]: Bug fixes for 7th Edition Unix
+Here is a [[http://www.giganews.com/newsgroup_hierarchy/comp/unix|list of comp.unix]] newsgroups. The [[https://archive.org|Internet Archive]] has a large collection of [[https://archive.org/details/usenethistorical|Usenet postings]], but they are all zipped up.