[PLUG] Finding appropriate USENET group or mailing list?

[Tom]

Try Google searching for: Comcast site:lists.pdxlinux.org
https://www.google.com/search?q=Comcast+site%3Alists.pdxlinux.org&ie=ut
f-8&oe=utf-8
See other Google search details:
https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en
https://www.lifewire.com/advanced-google-search-3482174
Best luck, Tomas
On Sat, 2017-04-01 at 09:18 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 03/31/2017 05:41 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> > On Fri, 31 Mar 2017, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > 
> > > If USENET then I have adequate server -- need title
> > > If mailing list, need pointer to archive and subscription info
> > 
> >    Two different animals. I've searched the web for mail lists on
> > specific topics and learned wheter one exists.
> 
> Search engines aren't intelligent enough. They can retrieve
> individual 
> posts with a keyword. They will likely return a link if the keyword
> is 
> in the group's or list's name/title. But will give no hint that a 
> particular topic is "on topic". For example if one was looking for 
> information on "Debian", "Ubuntu", or "Comcast", I know of no search 
> engine that would return "lists.pdxlinux.org".
> 
> That's why I asked here having already come up dry with search
> engines.
> 
> > 
> >    USENET is a pull system like web-based fora. In the latter world
> > stackoverflow and stackexchange are very good resources for
> > computer- and software-related questions. Sometimes these are the
> > only available resources.
> > 
> > Carpe weekend,
> > 
> > Rich
> 
> 
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