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Messaging
ICQ Web-based ICQ http://go.icq.com

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Listservers
Metalists:
http://lists.riseup.net/www/ Many, many topics, most with a bio-friendly mien: Enviroment, human rights, animal rights, etc.
http://www.lsoft.com/lists/list_c.html View a bunch of lists by the country where they are hosted.
http://www.lsoft.com/catalist.html
http://www.lsoft.com/scripts/wl.exe?XS=10000 Show lists with > 10k subscribers
http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa
http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/index.html
http://lists.oasis-open.org/ list of elists that have an archive from auto repair to XSLT
http://www.nettime.org/ http://nettime.org/ Mailing lists for networked cultures, politics, and tactics
http://research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/f_sci.html Women-Related Science/Technology Email Lists

Documentation for L-soft listservers
User's guide Text ftp://ftp.lsoft.com/documents/user.manual
User's guide Mac Word 5.1 ftp://ftp.lsoft.com/documents/user.mcw
User's guide View online http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/1.8d/user/user.html

A few lists with computer-related themes:
ASP, XML, .NET, IIS, ADSI http://www.15seconds.com/listserv.htm
Assembler SUBSCRIBE ASSEMBLER-LIST mailto:LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
CSS http://www.css-discuss.org/ and archives http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/
DB2 http://listserv.ylassoc.com/archives/db2-l.html
DB2 Data Base Discussion List DB2-L@IDUGDB2-L.ORG
Filemaker http://www.ironclad.net.au/lists/fmpexperts/
Mainframe SUBSCRIBE IBM-MAIN http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?REPORT&z=3
Ruby http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/ruby/
SSL http://wp.netscape.com/eng/ssl3/ssl-talk.html
TSO/REXX http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?tso-rexx
VM http://listserv.uark.edu/archives/index.html
Web development – EVOLT – http://lists.evolt.org/

A few lists with non-computer-related themes:
Gender Canada SUBSCRIBE TGC-L mailto:LISTSERV@YORKU.CA
Law – Cornell Law School listserv http://listserv.law.cornell.edu/





Newsgroups
Comprehensive list of newsgropus http://news-reader.org/
Very good info on some of the MS Newsgroups: http://www.net-sites.com/sitebuilder/newsgroups.asp
Newsgroups for:
Microsoft FrontPage, general issues news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.frontpage.client
Microsoft FrontPage 3rd party addins news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.frontpage.addins
MS FrontPage with VBA, VBSccript, JavaScript, etc. news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.frontpage.programming
MS FrontPage server extensions on NT server news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.extensions.windowsnt
MS FrontPage server extensions on Unix server news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.extensions.unix

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Email
Good info on email if you're new to email or the internet http://www.webhero.org/
Free Email servers
Email www.email.com/
EntireWeb http://mail.entireweb.com/
Excite http://www.excite.com/
Fastmail http://www.fastmail.fm/ 10mb free space
Hotmail www.hotmail.com/
Ladyfire http://www.ladyfire.com/
Mail http://www.mail.com/
http://www.myrealbox.com/ 10mb free email space
Postman www.postman.net/
Spymac http://www.spymac.com/ 1GB Free email space

Free Email clients: POP3 Software
Calypso Mail http://www.rosecitysoftware.com/calypso/
Eudora http://www.eudora.com/
Using Eudora for languages other than English http://www.smi.uib.no/files/eudtab.html
Incedimail http://www.incredimail.com/english/splash.html
OpenWebMail http://openwebmail.org/
Pegasus Mail http://www.pmail.com/

Email hosting software
http://www.openwebmail.org/

Email tools & goodies
Emoticons http://www.windweaver.com/emoticon.htm
Sig files http://coolsig.com/
http://www.didtheyreadit.com/ Allows you to tell when & where someone has read your email to them
http://www.msgtag.com/support/webmail/index.php Similar service, but Windows, only specific mail clients

Public Key Encryption software
PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) http://www.pgpi.org/products/pgp/versions/freeware/mac/
Further PGP Resources: clickum

Access your email from anywhere http://mail2web.com/

Email to any cellphone in the US mailto:nnn.nnn.nnnn@www.teleflip.com

Check email (or more correctly DNS) blacklists http://openrbl.org/zones.htm
DNS & RHS Blackhole Lists http://spamlinks.openrbl.org/filter-dnsbl-lists.htm
Blacklist statistics http://openrbl.org/stats.htm

Support for a variety of email clients http://support.earthlink.net/support/BROWSEHELP/browser.jsp?key=email

Gmail – my favorite https://gmail.google.com/
Gmail support center http://gmail.google.com/support/
Contact Gmail http://gmail.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact=1

Anonymous remailer http://riot.eu.org/anon/

Email etiquette
eMail this document,Benefits of BCC, to anyone who sends out bulk emails without using BCC:
Read it&nbsp&nbspeMail it

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File Sharing
Kazaa http://www.kazaa.com/us/index.htm
Napster http://www.napster.com/
Snarfzilla http://snarfzilla.sourceforge.net/

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
Deltathree www.iconnecthere.com/
Skype http://www.skype.com/
Voiceglo www.voiceglo.com/
Voicepulse www.voicepulse.com/
Vonage www.vonage.com/
8x8 www.8x8.com/
Also look at cable companies Cablevision, Time Warner, Comcast, Cox, RCN.
Also look at phone companies Verizon, AT&T, Qwest, SBC, Bellsouth.



WebRings
WebRing http://www.webring.com/rw

Anti-Quackery Ring http://g.webring.com/hub?ring=antiquackerysite
Sex Education Web Circle http://www.sexuality.org/wc/
Skeptic Ring http://l.webring.com/hub?ring=skeptic "...sites that examine claims about paranormal phenomena and fringe science"

Fax via web
http://www.efax.com/

Blogs
Blog searching: http://www.technorati.com/ "...the authority on what's going on in the world of weblogs."
They also maintain a list of the top 100 blogs http://www.technorati.com/live/top100.html
Google's Blogger http://www.blogger.com/start
http://www.livejournal.com/ One of the better blogging sites I have seen
Go Jabber www.GoJabber.com
http://www.boingboing.net/

Specific focus blogs:
Beltway gossip http://www.wonkette.com/
Economics http://econlog.econlib.org/
Gadgets http://www.gizmodo.com/
Movable Type http://www.movableblog.com/
Politics http://www.watchblog.com/ – Balances Democratic, Independent, Republican

Proximate Meeting
Dodgeball – only in a few cities so far http://www.dodgeball.com/ "Hook up with friends. Discover what's around you."
Meetup – sounds like a partner match, but is much more interesting http://www.meetup.com/
and some of their servers:
http://democrat.meetup.com/

Meetup – sounds like a partner match, but is much more interesting http://www.meetup.com/
and some of their servers:
http://democrat.meetup.com/



User Groups (finding)
Linux Users Groups worldwide http://vancouver-webpages.com/geo/lugmap.html




Miscellaneous
Conference Calling http://www.consensus.com/

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