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Group of newsgroup hierarchies
The Big 8 (previously the Big 7) are a group of newsgroup hierarchies established after the Great Renaming, a restructuring of Usenet that took place in 1987. These hierarchies are managed by the Big 8 Management Board. Groups are added through a process of nomination, discussion and voting.

The original seven hierarchies were comp. *, misc. *, news. *, rec. *, sci. *, soc. *, and talk.*. They were open and free for anyone to participate in (except for the moderated newsgroups), though they were subject to a few general rules governing their naming and distribution. alt. * was not part of the original seven but created separately as a place with more freedom and fewer rules than the Big 7. In April 1995, when Usenet traffic grew significantly, humanities. * was introduced and it and the seven hierarchies created by the Renaming make up today's so called "Big 8".

Hierarchy Description Examples comp. * Computer related discussions comp. software, comp. sys. amiga, comp. browsers. www humanities. * Humanities topics humanities. music. composers. wagner misc. * Miscellaneous topics misc. education, misc. forsale, misc. kids news. * Newsgroup related matters. This hierarchy was not originally intended for reporting news events. It was meant to deal with matters of Usenet in particular news. groups, news. admin, news. announce. groups rec. * Recreation and entertainment rec. music, rec. arts. movies, rec. arts. poetry sci. * Science related discussions sci. physics, sci. research, sci. skeptic soc. * Social discussions soc. college. org, soc. culture. African, soc. history. what if talk. * Talk about various controversial topics and discussions with no obvious categorization talk. religion, talk. politics, talk. bizarre, talk. origins