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The traditional two are mailing lists and newsgroups that each have their advantages
and disadvantages and each have hardened protagonists (fans) and antaganists (anti-fans).
The advent of WWW based bulletin boards is quite new. It has the big advantage that
there is no problem to subscribe/set-it-up. Subscribing to a mailing list is a bit
more difficult and understanding the mailing list concept even a bit more difficult,
setting up a newsgroups reader program is the most difficult, but luckily Netscape and
the other one now come with an inbuilt newsgroup reader, which helped a lot.
When you're paying for internet-access by duration (as most people outside of the
USA do) then it's best to be able to handle your messages off-line. A mailing list is
ideal I think, but a program like Free Agent can help read newsgroups off-line.
WWW-based bulletin boards can only be read on-line of course. Another problem with
bulletin boards is that they all operate differently and often very unergonomically.
The advantage of a mailing list over the other two is that the people that are
on it stay longer on it, read everything and are more experienced and you're more
likely to get a good answer (although some of the news:sci.electronics.* veterans are
also quite 'old' in the mean time). The advantage of the newsgroups is that much more
people will read your message...
I have never seen any fast-but-not-thorough (=chat) channels work, but let me know
if you find anything. The most important media are: IRC, ICQ, AOL-chat and dedicated
WWW based chat servers could work...
| local | Of the Chipdir itself |
| www.industrycommunity.com/ee/ | Several about electrical engineering |
| www.industrycommunity.com/manufacture/ | Several about manufacturing |
It's now also possible to read newsgroups via email using www.deja.com/.
I have tried it and it works great. You can even respond to messages just as if
you're replying to a mailing list.
To search in these newsgroups for specific subjects:
Using these services is also a great way to read news as normal HTML pages
without the need of a special newsreader. But only the latter two allow you
to reply to the messages directly.
cs.intel.com/ - Intel's own newsgroup system
The two major WWW browsers come with a standard newsreader, but you will need
to stay on-line while reading the news. As an off-line newsreader you can use
Free Agent (see www.tucows.com for example), but it's not easy to use, because
you first need to select the messages you want to read (by subject line only)
and then download them in a second pass...
Personally I therefore prefer reading mailing lists.
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