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Mailing Lists for Techies?
neilmoore67 asks: "I'm a member of various computer-related mailing lists, including the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter, the new Con Kolivas kernel patchset mailing list and a few others. What are the most interesting and informative mailing lists to receive?"
i think this depends on you levels of specialization
im on two main ones
mod_perl@perl.apache.org and www-vrml@web3d.org
ive been on other as nessecary to development
back in the day we didnt have no old school
http://www.tidbits.com/
Reality has a liberal bias
I am a Mac OS X user and I think that Omnigroup's MacOSX-admin & MacOSX-talk mailing lists are pretty good. You can get more information at the following URI:
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http://www.omnigroup.com/developer/mailinglists
And although I no longer use it, the NetBSD mailing lists are very good too.
I subscribe to Lockergnome, Red Hat's Under The Brim, and Mandrake's Newletter. Mostly just so I can keep my weekly quota of non-spam email coming in. Seriously, though, the rest I search for on my own. I never completely trust mailing lists to provide me what I want because most them have an agenda that involved advertising dollars.
If Darwin was right, you'd be dead by now.
Subscribe to misc@openbsd.org. Then ask a question that's listed in the FAQ. The flames are better than the 4th!
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The Cyber Security Alert System provides all citizens--from computer security professionals to home computer users--with free, timely, actionable information to better secure their computer systems.
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/signup.html
BugTraq and NTBugTraq are THE software security lists.
For technical game development discussion, gdalgorithms is good: info.
sweng-gamedev is also sometimes interesting; as you might guess from the name, it focuses more on the engineering side and less on algorithms: info
What do you find interesting, and what do you need to be informed about?
Security?
Wine updates?
http://seclists.org/
http://www.cert.org/
Those are interesting and informative for me, but a perl developer can probably give a damn about the latest nmap release.
What are your needs?
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Subscribe now, and you'll learn how to get Uncle Sam to reduce your debt so you can buy the blue pill to earn the diploma you deserve as an ordained minister. Plus there are so many cute chicks on the list! :)
North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes
X(7): A program for managing terminal windows. See also screen(1).
All Windows users should subscribe to Microsoft's security advisories by email. They cater to both technical people and people who just want an easy-to-understand digest with some links.
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Subscribe here:
http://microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/no
If you are into technology industry, future trends and perhaps have some investment portfolio, get Strategix News from Mark Anderson.
Really nice weekly publication with the predictions and data on current markets, correspondence written in by Michael Dell, US senators, venture capitalists, etc. (Who reads SNS?)
It's not free, but if your hobby includes making money on tech, it's the best.
We believe in it.
The signal to noise ratio can get pretty bad at times, but there are always intersting discussions.
The Risks Digest is also pretty interesting.
...Rob
The American Dream isn't an SUV and a house in the suburbs; it's Don't Tread On Me.
Please read this first.
Many programmers don't really pay attention to how their code is handled and create code that "looks" good but performs badly.
dtach - A tiny program that emulates the detach feat
IBMs useability mailing list. it is usually informative.
flinging poop since 1969
Not quite a mailing list, mind you, but seriously, who needs more then what Slashdot offers?
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http://www.invisik.com
Depends on your interests? I have quite a few subscriptions to Apple mail lists and Mac-Mgrs but if you're not a Mac guy you're not likely to care very much.
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I suggest you subscribe to alt.test.
http://www.activedir.org
http://www.ntbugtraq.com/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive
FAS Secrecy News
Linux Users Group of Davis Lists
linux-wlan(tm) Project Mailing Lists
Post a question to any Usenet newsgroup or put up a Web page, and make sure to include your email address, and you can join the rest of us on the Ultimate Mailing List.
"Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded."
I like my lists very focused. So I CC myself on Bugzilla topics of interest to me.
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Come for the technical tips, stay for the Theo/Reed battering flamewars.
Not anymore, of course. It doesn't exist anymore. When onelist merged with egroups or egroups merged with Yahoo, ISML and some celebrity/model fangroup had dibs on the ISML "name" so ISML became "Future Science Mailing List" or FSML. And then it was no more.
If anyone knows of a current group like it or if it morphed into another list of another name, I'd love to know. Last I heard of it was November '02. Great unusual finds from the fringes of tech and science.
Alex.
... will find the mailing lists hosted at http://www.midrange.com interesting.
The Boost developer mailing list provides a wealth of practical experience and innovative software engineering for the C++ programmer. Not only do you learn how the amazing libraries work, you get to see the thought and development process that goes into them. I did not really understand templates until I joined this list.
If you can handle the volume, get on the piclist. The variety of stuff you will see covered is huge.
Two newsletters: Mozilla Links Newsletter for general users and Mozilla Developer Links for developers.
One that allows potential Ask Slashdot posters to discuss ideas before deciding that they should waste everyone elses time with them!
Serisouly, there are millions of lists out there, and there are about as many different interests that people can have. Do you really think you're going to get a meaningful answer asking a question like that. If you do get a meaningful answer, you are literally brilliant, and maybe can get an answer to this: how long is a piece of string!
I get all of the important tech news I need by reading Slashdot.
Everything else is filler.
Those who sacrifice security to condemn liberty deserve to repeat history or something. - Benjamin Santayana
And more important, which of those mailing lists can be viewed on the gmane email to usenet portal ? Mailing lists are such a pain to manage and attract so much spam to your account...
Non-Linux Penguins ?