[ale] OT

[Pat Regan]

astronomy.stackexchange.com is now available!

Pat

On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 22:13:49 -0400
Cornelis van Dijk <cor.angela0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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