From: galt%peruvian.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Greg Alt) Subject: Re: Why not splitting this group? Date: 28 Jan 1993 11:13:11 MST
In article <1993Jan27.182700.8403@samba.oit.unc.edu>, jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid) writes:
>Perhaps traffic would be lower if people would not post questions that
>would be better posted to Comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.
>Or Comp.windows.x.i386unix, or Comp.unix.questions...
>
>Or in the case of more suggestions to split this group, until the 6 months
>since the last vote are over (and there are at least another 3-4, I believe)
>to Alt.flame.
Maybe it would be a good idea to add a list of Linux related newsgroups to
the FAQ... I think many people would be surprised at how many relevant
newsgroups there are.
I spent a couple minutes grepping my .newsrc, and I think this
list would be a good start (I'm sure there are others):
alt.bbs.unixbbs!
alt.bbs.uupcb!
alt.fax!
alt.games.xtrek!
alt.msdos.programmer!
alt.os.linux:
alt.toolkits.xview!
alt.unix.wizards!
alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions:
comp.dcom.fax!
comp.graphics.gnuplot!
comp.lang.postscript!
comp.mail.uucp!
comp.os.coherent!
comp.os.linux.announce:
comp.os.linux:
comp.os.minix!
comp.os.misc!
comp.protocols.tcp-ip!
comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains!
comp.sources.unix!
comp.sources.x!
comp.std.unix!
comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware!
comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc!
comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard!
comp.text.tex!
comp.unix.admin!
comp.unix.amiga!
comp.unix.bsd!
comp.unix.dos-under-unix!
comp.unix.internals!
comp.unix.large!
comp.unix.misc!
comp.unix.osf.misc!
comp.unix.osf.osf1!
comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit!
comp.unix.programmer!
comp.unix.questions!
comp.unix.shell!
comp.unix.wizards!
comp.windows.x!
comp.windows.x.announce!
comp.windows.x.apps!
comp.windows.x.i386unix!
comp.windows.x.intrinsics!
comp.windows.x.motif!
comp.windows.x.pex!
gnu.announce:
gnu.bash.bug!
gnu.chess!
gnu.emacs!
gnu.emacs.announce!
gnu.emacs.bug!
gnu.emacs.gnews!
gnu.emacs.gnus!
gnu.emacs.help!
gnu.emacs.lisp.manual!
gnu.emacs.sources!
gnu.epoch.misc!
gnu.g++!
gnu.g++.announce!
gnu.g++.bug!
gnu.g++.help!
gnu.g++.lib.bug!
gnu.gcc!
gnu.gcc.announce!
gnu.gcc.bug!
gnu.gcc.help!
gnu.gdb.bug!
gnu.ghostscript.bug!
gnu.groff.bug!
gnu.misc.discuss!
gnu.smalltalk.bug!
gnu.utils.bug!
misc.forsale.computers.pc-clone!
rec.games.xtank.play!
rec.games.xtank.programmer!
unix.general!
unix.hacks!
unix.sys!