emv@msen.com (Ed Vielmetti) (06/04/91)
From BOARDWATCH Magazine, Volume V, Issue 4, April 1991. "More on Gaining Access to the Internet" "Another resource of interest is Usenet News Groups. These act somewhat like Fidonet Echomail conferences on BBS systems. The difference is that there are now over 20000 of them. A program titled Read News is used to access them and again the interface is terrible. The first news group you will want to access is news.lists. This is an updated index of what news groups are available....The second newsgroup you want to look at is comp.archives. This one provides a couple thousand messages where individuals describe what file collections they have available for anonymous FTP and what the address and directory is to locate them." comp.archives is round about 40 in the monthly arbitron lists, but I'm happy to see it's the number two group the read in this reviewer's list! I'll be sending them a full description for the next issue or thereabouts. Boardwatch Magazine, 5970 South Vivian Street, Littleton CO 80127. Subscriptions $28/yr for 12 issues. Internet jack.rickard@csn.org -- Edward Vielmetti (comp.archives moderator) v.p for research, MSEN Inc. emv@msen.com "With all of the attention and publicity focused on gigabit networks, not much notice has been given to small and largely unfunded research efforts which are studying innovative approaches for dealing with technical issues within the constraints of economic science." RFC 1216