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- Subject: Newton FAQ: Part IV - Community [6/9]
- Summary: This posting gives answers to most questions concerning the Newton
- Message Pads. Please read before posting to comp.sys.newton.* newsgroups.
- This part gives various links on the Internet and includes a list of
- Newton User Groups.
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- URL: http://www.chuma.org/newton/faq/newton-faq-community.html,
- http://www.splorp.com/newton/faq/newton-faq-community.html,
- http://www.geocities.com/newtonresurrection/newton-faq-community.html,
- http://www.cat2.com/newton/Newton-FAQ/newton-faq-community.html,
- http://www.guns-media.com/mirrors/newton/faq/newton-faq-community.html,
- http://www.thisoldnewt.net/html/FAQ/newton-faq-community.html
- Version: This is the October 2002 update
- Maintainer: Steve Weyer <weyer@kagi.com>,
- Peter Rand <rand_peter@hotmain.com>,
- Sean Luke <seanl@cs.umd.edu> and Paul Guyot <pguyot@kallisys.net>
-
- PART IV: The Newton Community on the Internet
-
- * A) Discussions and groups
- + 1) What Newton newsgroups are there?
- x a) English newsgroups
- x b) A German-language newsgroup
- x c) How do I search the newsgroups for specific information?
- + 2) What mailing lists are there?
- + 3) Where can I find Newton user groups?
- + 4) Newton discussion forums on the Internet
- * B) Sites of general interest
- + 1) Is there a list of Newton related sites, or a ring?
- + 2) Is there an equivalent of Version Tracker?
- + 3) Are there e-zines and internet daily (or nearly) resources for the
- Newton?
- * C) Miscellaneous
- + 1) What are the April Fool Jokes (I have a problem with NewtonQuake)?
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-
-
- A) Discussion and newsgroups
-
-
- 1) What Newton newsgroups are there?
-
-
- a) International Newsgroups
-
- The comp.sys.newton.* hierarchy:
- * comp.sys.newton.announce for new hardware and software announcements
- (moderated)
- * comp.sys.newton.marketplace
- * comp.sys.newton.programmer for programming related questions
- * comp.sys.newton.misc for anything else, and just that!
-
- b) A German-language newsgroup
-
- de.comp.sys.handhelds.newton
-
- c) How do I search newsgroups for specific information?
-
- We suggest a google groups advanced search:
- <http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search>
-
- 2) What mailing lists are there?
-
- There are several general mailing lists available:
- * The famous NewtonTalk list. It is now community-driven and can be found
- at: <http://www.newtontalk.net>. You'll find there archives of the list
- since March 1999.
- * There is also an emergency mailing list, NewtonTalk2, maintained by Rich
- Lindsay. <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newtontalk2/>. To subscribe to the
- emergency list, send an e-mail to: <newtontalk2-subscribe@yahoogroups.com>.
- * A German mailing list: [Danke Guido Heer!]
- <http://home.tu-clausthal.de/student/newton/>
- * The Dutch "NewtonGebruikers" mailinglist
- <http://ngn.luna.nl/maillist.htm>
- * The eMate Talk mailinglist
- To subscribe, send an e-mail to <requests@insanely-great.com> with
- "subscribe ematelist" (without the quotes) as the subject.
- * Newton FR mailing list (in French) <http://ngfun.online.fr/newtonfr/>
-
- 3) Where can I find Newton user groups?
-
- [Sources: TON at: <http://www.thisoldnewt.net/link/links.pl>, Former
- Info-Newt's NUGs page, James Elliott's page at:
- <http://www.newted.org/users/jelliott/nugs.html>]
- * AMUG: Arizona's Newton Users <http://www.amug.org/amug_newton.html>
- * ANUG: Austin Newton Users Group <http://www.zti.com/anug>
- * DNUG: Danish Newton Users Group <http://www.dnug.dk>
- * GFUN: Groupe Francophone des Utilisateurs de Newton
- <http://welcome.to/gfun/>
- * HKNUG Hong Kong Newton Users. Their website seems down and it used to be:
- <http://home.hkstar.com/~hknug/>. However, the group seems to still exist
- and regularly meets. You can find them on the comp.pda.newton forum on the
- news.freeforum.org news server.
- * KNUG Korean Newton Users' Group <http://www.messagepad.org/>
- * LANUG Los Angeles Newton User Group
- <http://newted.org/users/mwilson/categories/lanug/>
- * MISNIC Mississippi Newton Interest Club [dead link?]
- <http://www.misnic.com/>
- * MSPUG Michigan State Palmtop Users (formerly MSNUG)
- <http://www.msu.edu/~luckie/msnug.htm>
- * NANUG North Atlanta Newton Users
- <http://www.amug.org/amug/sigs/newton/nanug/nanug_newton.html>
- * Pondlife (ex-NENUG) North of England Newton User Group
- <http://www.quern.demon.co.uk/pondlife/>
- * NGFUN: Nouveau Groupe Francophone des Utilisateurs de Newton
- <http://ngfun.online.fr/>
- * NGN Newton Gebruikersgroep Nederland <http://ngn.luna.nl/>
- * NWOU Northwest Of Us Mobile Computing Group (formerly the Northwest of Us
- Newton Group) <http://www.nwou.org>
- * NYCDAUG (ex-NYCNUG) New York Newton Users <http://www.nycdaug.org>
- * SNAG Stockholm Newton Anvèndar Grupp
- <http://www.users.wineasy.se/zanderc/SNAG/>
- * SNUG Stanford Newton Users Group <http://www.rahul.net/flasheridn/snug/>
- * TCNUG Twin Cities Newton Users Group <mailto:dechant@stolaf.edu>
- * TUNA Teachers Using Newton Alliance [dead link]
- <http://pobox.com/~bnet/newton/teacher/>
- * TVNUG Tennessee Valley Newton Users [dead link] <http://newton.uah.edu/>
- Paul Filmer maintains a list of the active Newton user groups meetings on
- his Dedicated MP2100 NewtonOS Server
- <http://128.150.4.33/html/Active%20Newton%20User%20Group%20Meetings> (if
- the link doesn't work, try to see if Paul's Newton is online by visiting
- Matt's NPDS Tracker where Paul usually registers his Newton.
- <http://130.126.50.66/tracker.cgi>)
-
- 4) Newton discussion forums on the Internet
-
- There are several forums:
- * Smaller.com Talk (formerly PDA Dash)
- <http://talk.smaller.com/Ultimate.cgi>
- * Newton Forum at PDA Buzz <http://www.pdabuzz.com>
- * Apple's discussion forum (Tech Exchange)
- <http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?> then follow Older Apple Products
- and Newton. Beware, this forum is strictly moderated and if you are too
- tough with Apple in a message, they will delete the whole thread.
- * Newted Community
- <http://newted.dyndns.org/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro>
- * MacNN PDA Forum
- <http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/forumdisplay.cgi?action=topics&forum=PDA&n
- umber=29&DaysPrune=20&LastLogin>
- * The Newton Developers Bulletin Board
- <http://www.imageguild.com/newton/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi>
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-
-
- B) Sites of general interest
-
-
- 1) Is there a list of Newton related sites, or a ring?
-
- Yes, there is the Apple Newton Webring:
- <http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=newtonring&list>
- Some sites also maintains a list of links such as:
- * This Old Newt: <http://www.thisoldnewt.net/link/links.pl>
-
-
- 2) Is there a Newton equivalent of Version Tracker?
-
- There used to be Newton Versions by the Danish Newton User Group.
- Unfortunately, the database is no longer on their website and it hasn't
- been udpated for months. Christian Fiutak has a copy of the old database on
- his website: <http://www.fiutak.de/info-newt/search.html>
- See also Part V for where to find Newton software
-
- 3) Are there e-zines and daily (or regular) internet resources for the
- Newton?
-
- * There is This Old Newt maintained by Rich Lindsay
- (monthly)<http://www.thisoldnewt.net/index2.html>.
- * You can also go to Newton Lifestyle, Das Online-Magazin von und fⁿr
- Newton Freaks: <http://www.newton-lifestyle.de/>
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
- C) Miscellaneous
-
-
- 1) What are the April Fool Jokes (I have a problem with NewtonQuake)?
-
- There was several famous April Fool Jokes among the Newton community. These
- includes:
- * NewtonQuake. Link is down. Was it in 2000?
- <http://www.emeraldnet.net/~ravenous/NewtonQuake/>
- * 2000
- + Sean's iPad
- <http://groups.google.fr/groups?selm=8c59mu%24fdh%241%40cronkite.cs.umd.edu
- >
- + Rich Lindsay's interview with Steve Jobs:
- <http://newted.dyndns.org/users/thisoldnewt/html/tms17.html>
- * 2001
- + Sean's MP3 Player in Java
- <http://groups.google.fr/groups?selm=9a7nga%246cm%241%40cronkite.cs.umd.edu
- >
- + Color Splash 100 in the FAQ
- <http://groups.google.fr/groups?selm=spam-BB1A4A.00210701042001%40news.free
- .fr>
- + Carsten Lemmen's hidden MB in Intel Cards
- <http://groups.google.fr/groups?selm=1er6ikw.1cagrvee6cokgN%25YSoft%40web.d
- e>
-