Xref: utzoo news.groups:14406 news.newusers.questions:933 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!xenitec!edhew From: edhew@xenitec.on.ca (Ed Hew) Newsgroups: news.groups,news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: "Kvetch" is in my American Heritage Dictionary Summary: look in news.lists news.groups news.announce.newusers Keywords: newsgroups Message-ID: <1989Nov13.061033.9161@xenitec.on.ca> Date: 13 Nov 89 06:10:33 GMT References: <1989Oct30.115233.19455@rpi.edu> <4259@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM> <1989Oct30.231803.16742@rpi.edu> <792@awdprime.UUCP> <1989Nov1.235013.15280@rpi.edu> <11077@riks.csl.sony.co.jp> Reply-To: edhew@xenitec.UUCP (Ed Hew) Followup-To: news.newusers.questions Organization: XeniTec Consulting Services, Kitchener, ON Lines: 26 In article rang@cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang) writes: > The problem is that (most? some? just me?) people don't look for a >group to discuss a topic by going through the list of group names, >looking them up in a dictionary, and deciding whether they're >appropriate. It's much more efficient to think of some keywords or >synonyms and look at the list for groups whose names pop out at you. >IMHO, at least. I'd suggest that when in doubt as to where to post, any site which gets news.* has this information available. Spaf submits a very useful article summarizing all the reasons_for_existance of every mainstream USENET newsgroup in an article titled, of all things.... "List of Active Newsgroups", normally posted to news.lists, news.groups, and news.announce.newusers Any time I'm not sure, I simply use my handy-dandy online reference as detailed above instead of a dictionary. You actually pick up a paper- based reference? [insert comments of incredulity here.] Followups directed to news.newusers.questions, where this belongs. >| Anton Rang (grad student) | rang@cs.wisc.edu | Ed. A. Hew Authorized Technical Trainer Xeni/Con Corporation work: edhew@xenicon.uucp -or- ..!{uunet!}utai!lsuc!xenicon!edhew ->home: edhew@xenitec.on.ca -or- ..!{uunet!}watmath!xenitec!edhew