edhew@xenitec.on.ca (Ed Hew) (11/13/89)
In article <RANG.89Nov6135129@derby.cs.wisc.edu> rang@cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang) writes: > The problem is that (most? some? just me?) people don't look for a >group to discuss a topic by going through the list of group names, >looking them up in a dictionary, and deciding whether they're >appropriate. It's much more efficient to think of some keywords or >synonyms and look at the list for groups whose names pop out at you. >IMHO, at least. I'd suggest that when in doubt as to where to post, any site which gets news.* has this information available. Spaf submits a very useful article summarizing all the reasons_for_existance of every mainstream USENET newsgroup in an article titled, of all things.... "List of Active Newsgroups", normally posted to news.lists, news.groups, and news.announce.newusers Any time I'm not sure, I simply use my handy-dandy online reference as detailed above instead of a dictionary. You actually pick up a paper- based reference? [insert comments of incredulity here.] Followups directed to news.newusers.questions, where this belongs. >| Anton Rang (grad student) | rang@cs.wisc.edu | Ed. A. Hew Authorized Technical Trainer Xeni/Con Corporation work: edhew@xenicon.uucp -or- ..!{uunet!}utai!lsuc!xenicon!edhew ->home: edhew@xenitec.on.ca -or- ..!{uunet!}watmath!xenitec!edhew