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Usenet News groups

There are a number of Usenet News groups dedicated to discussion of issues concerning the Web.

comp.infosystems.announce

Covers announcements of network information, a lot of it directly about the Web.

comp.infosystems.www.providers

Web server software discussion newsgroup, also covers all topics of interest to information providers.

comp.infosystems.www.users

A discussion newsgroup for Web users and user-related issues, particularly concerned with browsers.

comp.infosystems.www.misc

Covers general Web-related topics in areas not covered by the other newsgroups.

comp.infosystems.www

Please note, this is now obsolete, although it was the original Web newsgroup. You may see it referred to on the Web, but it has been defunct since June, 1994.

CERN maintains a list of Web-related newsgroups:

http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Newsgroups.html

Spinning the Web by Andrew Ford
© 1995 International Thomson Publishing
© 2002 Andrew Ford and Ford & Mason Ltd
Note: this HTML document was generated in December 1994 directly from the LaTeX source files using LaTeX2HTML. It was formatted into our standard page layout using the Template Toolkit. The document is mainly of historical interest as obviously many of the sites mentioned have long since disappeared.