[ale] OT

[cor.angela0 at gmail.com (Cornelis van Dijk)]

Thanks guys. I have not checked all of the suggestions, but at least one of them
(http://physics.stackexchange.com/) seems right o target.
Cor van Dijk

On 6/4/11, William Bagwell <rb211 at tds.net> wrote:
> On Thursday 02 June 2011, Ed Cashin wrote:
>> Maybe usenet is not quite dead yet?  I always preferred nntp to mailing
>> lists, etc., for online expert discussions.
>
> Not dead, but only groups that were very healthy and thriving ~five years
> ago still have much traffic. Almost all of the marginal niche topic
> groups appear quite dead. A few will wake up for an intersting question
> but many are as dead as they look.
>
>> In your shoes I'd check whether "sci.astro" or "sci.physics" newsgroups
>> are still available, but in attempting to find out those names, I
>> noticed this page:
>
> Both are still viable groups receiving traffic.
>
>>   http://www.cv.nrao.edu/fits/www/yp_newsgroup.html
>>
>> ... which might be interesting to you.
>
> Another potentially usefull tool is here.
> http://groupsearch.alt-config.net/engine.html
>
> Shows that "sci.astro" and "sci.physics" are both very well propagated
> (the tools original function) and on almost all servers.  Also by using
> the partial match option, one can see there are no real groups
> with "cosmology" in the name. Handfull of joke groups but none on enough
> servers to be usefull.
> --
> William
>
>
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