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The language of preference in the " original " Usenet hierarchies, including alt.
*, is English, which implies that the preferred character set encoding for these newsgroups is ASCII.
Other language hierarchies have later been created in parallel to the existing English ones, for example de.
* for German, fr.
* for French, etc.
Some access providers also created their own versions, prefixing the newsgroups names with their own name in a similar way.
Messages posted in these " private " groups are generally not passed to other providers or the internet in general.
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