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BoardReader view detail comment email this

A search engine that searches multiple message boards simultaneously and displays information contained on the Web's forums and message boards. Sites with forums may request that they be included in the database (no fee). From engineers and students at the University of Michigan.
http://boardreader.com/
Topics: Communications, Internet, Internet Guides & Search Tools
Last updated Dec 21, 2006


CataList, the catalog of LISTSERV lists view detail comment email this

Tens of thousands of lists hosted by the LISTSERV e-mail discussion list software. Searchable, and provides number of subscribers of lists and link to archives, if available.
http://www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html
Topics: Internet, Internet Guides & Search Tools
Last updated Jun 1, 2004


Google Groups view detail comment email this

A "free online community and discussion group service that offers the Web's most comprehensive archive of Usenet postings (more than a billion messages)."
http://groups.google.com/
Topics: Internet, Internet Guides & Search Tools
Last updated Aug 31, 2005


Google Groups: 20 Year Usenet Timeline view detail comment email this

A timeline of "especially memorable articles and threads" in Usenet discussion groups from 1981 forward, compiled from several significant Usenet archival resources. Includes first mentions of MTV and Star Wars, early references to emoticons, the first thread about AIDS, and more.
http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html
Topics: Computers, Computers, Internet, Internet Guides & Search Tools
Last updated Jan 12, 2005


Internet FAQ Archives view detail comment email this

Most useful Usenet FAQs site. From the Internet FAQs Consortium, the FAQs are full-text searchable (over 4,000 FAQs in the database) and listed by newsgroups, category, author, and archive name. Data is from the master archive at MIT known as RTFM.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/
Topics: Internet, Internet Guides & Search Tools
Last updated Jun 19, 2003


PUBYAC view detail comment email this

Archives, subscription instructions, and other information about PUBYAC, "an Internet discussion list concerned with the practical aspects of Children and Young Adult Services in Public Libraries, focusing on programming ideas, outreach and literacy programs for children and caregivers, censorship and policy issues, collection development, administrative considerations, puppetry, job openings, professional development and other pertinent services and issues."
http://www.pubyac.org/
Topics: Internet, Internet Guides & Search Tools, Librarian Specialties, Librarianship, Libraries & Archives by Type, Senior Health, Social Issues
Last updated Mar 1, 2005


Tile.Net Lists: The Reference to Internet Discussion and Information Lists view detail comment email this

Lists tens of thousands of e-mail discussion lists.
http://tile.net/lists/
Topics: Internet, Internet Guides & Search Tools
Last updated Jun 1, 2004


Usenet Info Center Launch Pad view detail comment email this

Basic information on Usenet newsgroups, the FAQs, descriptions, search engines for finding one to match interest.
http://www.ibiblio.org/usenet-i/
Topics: Internet, Internet Guides & Search Tools
Last updated Jan 22, 2001


Yahoo! Groups view detail comment email this

Just as the Web provides sites for free email accounts and Web pages, this service allows you to set up mailing lists with no strings other than the inevitable ads.
http://groups.yahoo.com/
Topics: Internet, Internet Guides & Search Tools
Last updated Jun 13, 2005




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