The Malden Family of Newsgroups, in general, are groups that receive crossposts to and from its hub, alt.fan.karl-malden.nose. They are good places for Usenet Performance Art. On Dejanews, it once was possible to create an exact map of the Malden Family by using the "Related Groups" function. The number of groups in the Family can vary from as few at 10 to as many as 50, depending upon the current activites of Meowers and various other Usenet Performance Artists. Often you will see Gigglespeak being used. Groups in the Malden Family include, or have included (some of these have yet to be noded):
- alt.fan.karl-malden.nose
- alt.butt.harp
- alt.non.sequitur
- alt.flame
- alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk
- alt.games.final-fantasy
- rec.games.mecha
- alt.college.college-bowl
- alt.college.college-meow
- alt.gossip.celebrities
- alt.hackers.malicious
- alt.romath
- news.admin.net-abuse.misc
- alt.usenet.kooks
- alt.horror.werewolves
- alt.config
- alt.gothic
- alt.binaries.multimedia.flonk