soc.culture.sri-lanka
Sri Lanka through its hardest decades.
The civil war shaped everything here: news relays and casualty lists, Sinhala and Tamil perspectives in one unmoderated room, and the careful threads of people whose families lived the headlines.
Cricket supplied the ceasefires; the 1996 World Cup is the archive’s happiest month.
Reading soc.culture.sri-lanka today
- Historical archive: Google Groups — soc.culture.sri-lanka (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.