soc.culture.bulgaria
Discussing Bulgarian society.
From the fall of Zhivkov through EU accession, the group tracked Bulgaria’s transition with the scepticism of people living it. Cyrillic encoding wars (KOI-8 vs. Windows-1251) were an early recurring technical theme.
Folklore threads — Thracian archaeology, martenitsa customs, the irregular meters of Bulgarian folk music — gave it depth beyond politics.
Reading soc.culture.bulgaria today
- Historical archive: Google Groups — soc.culture.bulgaria (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.