http://groups.google.com/group/google.public.support.general/msg/d88f36fb3e2c0aac (Who's computer is this?)

Usenet is a collection of newsgroups. Newsgroups are discussion forums. Often Usenet refers only to the "Big Eight" hierarchies: comp, humanities, misc, news, rec, sci, soc, and talk. While k12.ed.math is a newsgroup in the k12 hierarchy, it still operates by the usual Usenet conventions and is transported through the same network systems. So, for all practical purposes, it is part of Usenet. A newsgroup is not a mailing list or a listserve.

There are a huge number of newsgroups available, some of which discuss topics of interest to folks using OpenVMS operating system. Key among these are the news:comp.os.vms newsgroup and the vmsnet.* heirarchy of newsgroups.

Not exclusively for Rosacea. Perhaps the best 2 to try are alt.skincare.acne and alt.support.skin-diseases. You can read and post to You could also try your local feed of these newsgroups if your browser is configured: news:alt.support.skin-diseases news:alt.skincare.acne

Answer: The most comprehensive list is Jypsy's list of autism related electronic mailing lists. This is an excellent page with many links for Autism and other related conditions.

There are probably over 100,000 usenet newsgroups available, but to provide access to all of them would put an immense strain on the computer that stores this web site. Altbaldspot.com is a dedicated web to usenet news gateway for the newsgroup alt.baldspot and a few related newsgroups. If you know of other active newsgroups that you would like to see on altbaldspot.com, then contact us at admin at altbaldspot.com

Discussion about AFPL Ghostscript and GSview can be found in the USENET newsgroup comp.lang.postscript Discussion about GNU Ghostscript and Ghostview can be found in the USENET newsgroup gnu.ghostscript.bug

Not at the time of writing, although the following groups cover many WAP-related questions, and will act as a good starting point:

Nothing - we considered starting a Usenet group instead, and if this list volume grows out of hand, we may do that, but for now, a mail list is more convenient and appropriate. The problem with most forums like USENET and general-purpose user's groups is that the topics are generally too oriented to beginners, and/or devoted to one type of software. Nothing's wrong with that, but we also need a place to talk that is more of interest to professionals. Also, some people don't have Usenet access.

The MARC Forum is a listserv maintained by the Network Development and MARC Standards Office and is open to anyone interested in the implementation, maintenance and development of the MARC 21 formats. The forum provides an opportunity for members of the information community to participate in discussions related to the formats. Vendor, network, technical service, automation, and reference staff and researchers are encouraged to participate.

General discussion and comment on the standard should be directed though the usenet news group: <comp.lang.forth> A separate mail list has been established for more formal announcements, comments, and questions. All mail sent to this mail list will be distributed to all subscribers (including all members of the Technical Committee) and archived for further reference. Mail should be sent to: <ansforth@minerva.

Usenet is a distributed bulletin board system that is not limited in scope to the network of networks we call the Internet. Many on- line services, BBSs and other computing sites have newsfeeds without the benefits of FTP, Telnet, or other functions associated with the Internet. With over 15,000 newsgroups, Usenet may be the largest body of collective reasoning in the world.

alt.fan.the.cure - Another group on some servers. A Usenet Call-For-Votes was done for a Cure newsgroup in the rec.music.* hierarchy in 1995, but it failed to get enough 'yes' votes. Please do not post binary files (pictures or sounds) to the Cure newsgroups listed above. Many people download their news, and it takes forever if the newsgroup contains very long articles. [Craig]

This newsgroup has been dead for years, but was once a moderated group for HP48 Programs. es.comp.sistemas.hp48 Articles posted to the newsgroup comp.sys.hp48 are archived at ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/usenet/comp.sys.hp48/. Articles are archived by year and month, with a general index covering approximately the past two years. The AltaVista search engine at http://www.altavista.digital.

When you follow news links such as news:alt.invest, in MoneyWeb, you need access to a local news (NNTP) server. If you're getting error messages such as "cannot talk" or "cannot locate host," you probably don't have your news server configured properly in your browser options. Check your browser's help file or ask your internet service provider or systems administrator.

You have to use an e-mail gateway; this is achieved sending your posting as a regular e-mail to "post+bboard_name@andrew.cmu.edu", where bboard_name is the name of the Bboard which should host the posting.

The Usenet can be thought of as a very large discussion bulletin board where people can post and read messages (keep in mind that the Usenet is not a chat room, it is not real time, it is simply a message board/system). Messages can be read by joining or subscribing to a group. The group name usually describes the nature of messages discussed in the group. For example alt.pets.ferrets is a group that discusses ferrets as pets.

There are three mailing lists, and an archive. First, and this is important, send subscription requests to the corresponding -request address, not the main lists. Please. The exmh mailing lists are archived at http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/exmh/ exmh-announce Subscribe to this to receive announcements about new exmh releases. Send a mail message to exmh-announce-request@redhat.com to be added to or removed from the list.

The Baen Books Web Site has a forum/newsgroup devoted to Lois in Baen's Bar. Lois frequently posts there in her "Miles To Go" conference. Baen's Bar can also be accessed via e-mail or a news reader: see their start page for the details. e-mail list for discussing Bujold's books has been set up on YahooGroups. This list was initially a backup for times when the Lois-Bujold list was down.

Numerous specialty groups (e.g., discussions for brine shrimp, copepods, etc.) are available. Check out the Biosis site for some additional lists. They range from large groups like the popular list for shellfish (shellfish@kenyon.edu), to the specialty lists like that for crab fisheries (crab-l@ios.bc.ca), or for green crabs (greencrab@lists.pdx.edu). A list devoted to Crustacea of Latin America can be found at CRUSTACEA@OLA.ICMYL.UNAM.MX, or else request information directly to gramirez@ola.

Mail lists and discussion groups are what places like Yahoo! Groups provide. A mail list can serve a lively collection of people--or a small community--who share common interests. When paired with a drop box, such a community can share artifacts and even work on them--a small, ad hoc open-artifact community. The java.net mailing list and discussion groups are based on CollabNet's SourceCast software tools.

My company is not "visible" in the newsgroups, because I oppose the use of the public internet for commercial purposes... Anyone who has ever posted to usenet message with their email address "in the clear" knows why... Just look at the "Dear Friend" messages which arrive in your mailbox every day. Other vendors post regularly in these and other groups, and are constantly promoting their products... Some blatently, others in the guise of extra comments made in a helpful response..

rec.games.video.classic (rgvc) is probably the best place to start, as it is carried in most newsfeeds and generally has the most traffic. rec.games.video.marketplace is for the buying and selling of video games and systems and is not limited to atari or even classic systems. It is dominated by post-classic ads, which is why you will often see buy/sell/auction posts in rgvc. rec.games.video.