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Wow, alt.zines sounds really awful. Where else can I talk about zines on the Internet?

April 26, 2017alt.zines awful internet Sounds talk zines

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Wow, alt.zines sounds really awful. Where else can I talk about zines on the Internet?

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On Usenet, you may find the newsgroups alt.etext, alt.ezines, misc.writing or rec.mags more to your liking. Catherine’s zinesters mailing list is a place where (mostly female) perzine publishers can discuss whatever comes to mind (look up ‘zinesters’ at to join). Shaun Richman runs a radical zinesters mailing list, for those with left-leaning politics (find out more at ). A few web-based discussion lists exist as well — these are generally quite commercial and awful, so I won’t recommend any. For some reason, the EFNet IRC channel #zines has nothing to do with zines; it is occupied by the same hackers that made the group alt.zines.y0lk. Some zine publishers were organizing ICQ discussions for a while but that era seems to be over. So really, alt.zines is the best game in town. A Reader’s Guide and Chip Rowe also maintain announcement-only mailing lists; no verdict on either yet. 2.