TIP: SEARCHING FOR USENET NEWSGROUPS - Don’t know the name of the newsgroup? To search for Usenet groups about “pets”, for example, send e-mail to an Agora server (see WWW section) with this line in the message BODY:
send http://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links/cgi-bin/news.pl?pets
Another way to find newsgroups: Send e-mail to “liszter@bluemarble.net” with news “keyword” in the BODY if the message. (The quotes force an exact match.)
USENET SEARCHES A service called REFERENCE.COM makes it possible to search USENET newsgroups for postings that contain keywords of interest to you. You can even “subscribe” and receive a daily list of newsgroup postings that match your search criteria. Send mail to “email-queries@reference.com” with HELP in the body of note for full details. A similar service called the Vigilant Information Filter can be reached by sending e-mail to “info@vigilant.bc.ca”.
