Re: More Active Newsgroups?

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Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 19:16:54 -0500

Moe Trin wrote:

> In the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.help, in article
> <4536690.4mEVZ5FA2F@linux.user.and.happy>, CWO4 Dave Mann wrote:
>
>>Any recommendations fro more active newsgroups than these two?
>
> On the 15th of each month, there is a posting to the news groups
> news.announce.newgroups, news.groups, and news.lists.misc with the
> title "List of Big Eight Newsgroups"
>
> [compton ~]$ grep linux valid.newsgroups.07.15.05 | cut -f 1 | column
> comp.os.linux.advocacy comp.os.linux.misc
> comp.os.linux.alpha comp.os.linux.networking
> comp.os.linux.announce comp.os.linux.portable
> comp.os.linux.answers comp.os.linux.powerpc
> comp.os.linux.development.apps comp.os.linux.security
> comp.os.linux.development.system comp.os.linux.setup
> comp.os.linux.embedded comp.os.linux.x
> comp.os.linux.hardware comp.os.linux.xbox
> comp.os.linux.m68k
> [compton ~]$
>
> Neither of these groups is listed - comp.os.linux has never been a
> sanctioned group, and comp.os.linux.help was renamed comp.os.linux.misc
> back in December 1994. They exist only on news servers who like to claim
> they have more groups than anyone else.
>
> There are also a bunch of 'alt.os.linux.*' groups, such as
> alt.os.linux.gentoo, alt.os.linux.mandrake, alt.os.linux.redhat and so on,
> as well as 'alt.os.linux' and 'alt.linux'. The alt.os.linux hierarchy
> seems to be relatively active, but a little quirky. LURK AT LEAST A WEEK
> before posting.
>
> Another solution is to tell your news reader to get a list of all
> available
> newsgroups from the news server. See the man page for your reader. Still
> another solution is to look at http://groups.google.com and see if you can
> find an interesting (and active) group there.
>
> Old guy

Thanks for the tips Moe, I really appreciate it. I notice that the misc
group has 75K articles (and I am still wading through them reading each
thread that looks interesting).

Bottom line I want a "continuing education". My books and box building will
only go so far before I run into some dumbass mistake that I can't figure
out that 100's have already fixed.

This group we are on seems like a nice sedate group for old geezers with
some technical expertise who like to share. That's comfortable.

And don't forget the set the card punch to actually punch the cards rather
than simulate as I have done a couple of times and discovered after a half
a rack of cards later. Ah yes, Honeywell JCL.

Cheers,

Dave

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