soc.culture.asean
Countries of the Association of South East Asian Nations.
A regional umbrella group for Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, Brunei and later members — used for cross-border topics: the 1997 financial crisis, haze season, ASEAN summits, and regional food rivalries taken very seriously.
Country-specific groups handled domestic politics; soc.culture.asean was where the region argued with itself as a region.
Reading soc.culture.asean today
- Historical archive: Google Groups — soc.culture.asean (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.