soc.culture.british
Britain and the British.
A high-traffic group covering British life with the expected register: dry, argumentative, allergic to earnestness. Topics ran from devolution and the NHS to proper tea, regional accents and whether various things were "grim up north".
It coexisted with the uk.* hierarchy; soc.culture.british was the outward-facing room where the rest of the world asked questions and was corrected.
Reading soc.culture.british today
- Historical archive: Google Groups — soc.culture.british (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.