Newsgroups to Read

Reading news like a CMU CSD grad student:

cmu.cs.scs

required reading -- important announcements

cmu.cs.general

general-interest items. not for discussion.

cmu.cs.quals

info on CSD courses (mainly the five core courses)

cmu.cs.csd.students.phd

announcements and discussion of CSD PhD student issues

cmu.cs.proj.<your_project>

some projects have their own newsgroups

cmu.misc.news

official university announcements

cmu.cs.news.announce

cmu.cs.library

cmu.cs.library.announce

cmu.cs.drc

news from the Doctoral Review Committee

cmu.cs.facilities

info on upcoming facilities changes

cmu.cs.unix.announce

announcements of new or upgraded software

cmu.cs.unix.forum

unix-related questions and discussion

cmu.cs.{ibmpc,mac}.announce

announcements of new or upgraded software

cmu.cs.{aix,hpux,ibmpc,linux,mac,netbsd,osf1,sunos,ultrix}.forum

OS-specific questions and discussion

cmu.cs.{tex, framemaker}

everyone's favorite document layout systems

cmu.cs.jobs

announcements of summer jobs, postdocs, faculty positions, etc.

cmu.cs.sports

cmu.cs.trip-reports

reports from CMU people attending recent conferences

cmu.cs.market, cmu.misc.market, cmu.misc.market.{apartments,books,computers,furniture,music,transportation}

high-volume; you can buy & sell most anything

cmu.cs.discussion

polite general discussion, sometimes of topics from cmu.cs.general

cmu.cs.opinion

no-holds-barred "discussion". Comments probably not intended as viciously as they may sound. Don't post without first reading for a while.

pa.general, pgh.general, pgh.food

local area discussion

clari.*

ClariNet commercial wire news service

comp.risks

digest of computer-related risks; good reading