Locating People through online discussion groups

• Usenet Newsgroup Finding Aids

  Newsgroups (a.k.a. Usenet) are accessed and viewed on the WWW. Netscape supports viewing Newsgroups. Although some academic disciplines prefer Newsgroups over Listserv-type e-mail groups as their scholarly forum, Newsgroups tend to be popular, fun, alternative.
  

  You can find Newsgroups by directing most of the major search engines (try Infoseek, for example) to newsgroups. Sometimes they are integrated in search results.

   

   

• Mailing List Finding Aids (such as Listserv® lists)

  Mailing lists work through your e-mail, not on the WWW. You subscribe and receive mail from the group. For more information, consult Inter-Links' "What is a Mailing List?" or a more exhaustive description of various mailing lists' commands from Case Western Reserve Law School. Mailing lists tend to be more scholarly than Newsgroups, but content varies with academic disciplines.
  

  Liszt,http://www.liszt.com. Provides a fairly searchable database of Listservs.

  SEARCH TIPS:Use * to truncate (lit* will retrieve literature) or as wildcard (*world retrieves underworld). May use OR and NOT. Default is AND between terms. (  ) may be used. No phrase searching.)

  InterLinks provides several additonal resources for locating discussion groups or lists.

Finding Individual People's Pages and E-Addresses

Bigfoot,http://www.bigfoot.com

General Web and e-mail people finder.

Four 11,http://people.yahoo.com

Another general Web and e-mail people finder.

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