Thanks for the response. I kinda had a feeling that something like that didn't exist. I used to post on a forum @ www.hackers.com. It had a lot of users and was kinda of a one-stop-shop for support on pretty much anything. Its no longer around and I was hoping to find something similar.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Niels Voll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CLUG General" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 12:01 AM Subject: Re: [clug-talk] OT : IT forum/newsgroup > I think you may be looking just a tad too broadly. Any mailing list that > broad would have hundreds, if not thousands of messages per day, which > pretty much makes it ineffective. The Calgary IT community is very large > and very diverse, so I doubt that a single gathering place would be all > that effective. Maybe that's why one doesn't really exist - or everybody > has been keeping it a secret from me :) > > For a hugely broad discussion forum on IT, the grand daddy is > slashdot.org. But it's not the best place to ask questions. Good mailing > lists tend to be much more focused. > > If you just want to keep abreast of all kinds of IT related issues, you > may not really want a mailing list, but a news site. There are quite a > number of interesting news sites. Some of my regular reads include The > Register, Slashdot, NewsForge, Ars Technica, Linux Today (google for the > URL's). > > ...Niels > > p.s. I'd be curious if other mailing list members have some favorites, I > may not be aware of. > > > > > > Steven K wrote: > > > I was wondering if there is a discussion forum or a newsgroup for > > Linux & windows & hardware and any other IT issues for calgary. > > Clug-talk is great I am just looking for another one thats more > > broad. If there isn't a local one could some reccomend a good that > > covers all these things. > > > > Sorry for another OT post. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
