Re: [clug-talk] OT : IT forum/newsgroup

[Niels Voll]

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.

 

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