From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 28 14: 9:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C981437B400 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 14:09:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 268E743E6A for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 14:06:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk ([IPv6:::1]) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7SL60mg003250 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 22:06:00 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost) by happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g7SL4esX003223; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 22:04:40 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 22:04:40 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Lee_Shackelford@dot.ca.gov Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newsgroup access Message-ID: <20020828210440.GD2892@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 09:58:21AM -0700, Lee_Shackelford@dot.ca.gov wrote: > Is there a way for me to read newsgroup postings from my computer at > my place of employment? Especially, is there a way to read postings > devoted to FreeBSD and other similar operating systems? http://groups.google.com/ lets you read and post to pretty much all Usenet newsgroups via the web. However, most FreeBSD activity is actually carried on the mailing lists (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL) --- these are gatewayed into newsgroups in various places so you can pick them up using google groups, but GeoCrawler has a good archive (http://www.geocrawler.com/) which is kept pretty promptly up to date. (The archives at the main FreeBSD site (http://www.freebsd.org/search/index.html#mailinglists) only get updated once a week) Of course, you could always subscribe... Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message