Re: Newsgroups

Jamie wrote:
> I am pretty new to newsgroups and was wondering where I can find more 
> groups. I used to use Agent on my friends computer but don't know where 
> to find a group list like that on Mac

You start usually with a news server provided by your ISP
Depending upon the ISP that may be anywhere from 100 to 25000 newsgroups

There are also pay news servers (such as giganews) that may be available 
to you
As well as specialized news servers like the one from Netscape (that 
this group is on actually)

snews://secnews.netscape.com
note: access to secnews requires an SSL capable newsreader such as 
Netscape (any) Mozilla suite or Thunderbird or even (ugh) Outlook
contains several public and non-public groups for macintosh users

Macintosh specific groups
snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.macintosh      (for Communicator 
(4x) or Navigator (3x) problems)
snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.netscape6.macintosh  (for Netscape 
6 problems [moribund])
snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.netscape7.macintosh (for Netscape 
7 problems)
snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.mozilla.user.mac  (For Mozilla 
(suite) problems)

General groups (non platform specific)
snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.mozilla.firebird  (for Firefox 
problems [all platforms])
snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.mozilla thunderbird (for 
Thunderbird problems [all platforms])
snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.mozilla.user.general (for General 
discussion of Mozilla products and problems)
snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.test.multimedia (for HTML users in 
email and news [all platforms])

Macintosh specific groups within the mozilla developers hierarchy (so 
termed public)
snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.public.mozilla.mac
snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.public.mozilla.macosx

Note: secnews also contains windows specific groups, linux specific 
groups in addition to the above.

General Macintosh orientated newsgroups available on usenet (use your 
ISPs news server to access these)
alt.fan.mozilla
alt.netscape
comp.infosystems.www.browsers.mac

-- 
Mozilla Champion
UFAQ - http://www.UFAQ.org
Mozilla Champions - http://mozillachampions.mozdev.org
Posting Guidelines - http://mozillachampions.mozdev.org/guidelines.html
Mozilla Manual - http://mozmanual.mozdev.org/