NEWSGROUPS RESOURCES

by Peter Y. Chou, Instructor for CAST-74A1: Using the Internet
CTIS Division, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, California

15-Minutes Slide Shows Relating to Newsgroups from Internic:
What is a Mailing List?— http://rs.internic.net/cgi-bin/15min/mkmodule.cgi/maillist/sld01.html
(8 slides from their 15-minutes module series with example of request to send response)
What is Network News— http://rs.internic.net/cgi-bin/15min/mkmodule.cgi/news/sld01.html
(8 slides from their 15-minutes module series with example of hierarchical structure chart)
What is Netiquette?— http://rs.internic.net/cgi-bin/15min/mkmodule.cgi/netiqete/sld01.html?key=title
(9 slides from their 15-minutes module series with examples of emoticons)
Resources from Search Engines & Directories:
DejaNews— http://www.dejanews.com
(searches 20,000 discussion groups with 180 gigabytes of info & 138 million articles in its database)
Yahoo's Directory on Usenet— http://www.yahoo.com/News_and_Media/Usenet
(11 categories on Usenet with Usenet Search option)
Usenet— http://www.pbs.org/uti/guide/usenet.html
(PBS has some useful links to Usenet & Newsgroups)
Discussion Groups, Newsgroups, Forums:
Internet Discussion Groups— http://www.dejanews.com/info/idg.shtml
(DejaNews' FAQ on discussion groups with links)
Usenet Info Center— http://sunsite.unc.edu/usenet-b/home.html
(Browse & Search for Newsgroups with FAQs & Index)
FAQ: What is Usenet?— http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/usenet/what-is/part1/faq.html
(Q&A on "What is and What is not Usenet.")
Moderated NewsGroups FAQ— http://www.swcp.com/~dmckeon/mod-faq.html
(15-pages FAQ on Moderated Newsgroups)
Mailing Lists & Newsgroups— http://www.cc.columbia.edu/~fuat/cuarc/mailing-lists.html
(Alphabetical Listing of Mailing Lists: Please don't print mile-long list. Bookmark those you're interested.)
New York Times Hosted Forums— http://forums.nytimes.com/comment
(15 hosted forums from The New York Times)
Network News Transport Protocol:
Network News Transport Protocol— http://www.academ.com/academ/nntp/index.html
(NNTP Client Reference software for Unix & MS-DOS is 1.6 and useful links)
rfc977.txt— http://info.internet.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc/files/rfc977.txt
(Feb. 1986 memo: NNTP— A Proposed Standard for the Stream-Based Transmission of News)
How the Usenet News Protocols Work— http://www.dsv.su.se/~jpalme/e-mail-book/usenet-news.html
(Figures showing how new articles are forwarded from server to server in Usenet News)
Newgroups Softwares:
Newswatcher— ftp://ftp.acns.nwu.edu/pub/newswatcher
(download "newswatcher-216.sea.hqx" 647 Kb file for Macintosh from Northwestern University)
NewsXPress— http://www.malch.com/nxfaq.html
(download NewsXPress 1.0 as .zip file for Windows/Windows95)
Free Agent— http://www.forteinc.com/forte/agent/freagent.htm>
(download Free Agent 1.11, a freeware News Reader for Windows)

Peter Y. Chou, CTIS Division, Foothill College, 12345 El Monte Rd., Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
email address as hypertext: mailto: pyc2108@mercury.fhda.edu (last updated 11-22-97)