alt.astrology
Astrology: charts, techniques and debate.
Practising astrologers, curious newcomers and dedicated sceptics shared one unmoderated room — chart-reading requests and technique debates (placements, houses, progressions) ran alongside permanent believer-vs-sceptic trench warfare.
The group’s FAQ and its ephemeris-software threads document astrology’s early software era.
Reading alt.astrology today
- Historical archive: Google Groups — alt.astrology (coverage varies by group and era).
- Live access: point an NNTP newsreader at a modern server — see accessing Usenet today.
- The original news2mail e-mail subscription service ended in the mid-2000s and no longer operates.