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- Date: Sun, 21 Nov 93 3:30:11 EST
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- From: brad@clarinet.com (Brad Templeton)
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- Subject: Picking which ClariNet newsgroups you wish to read (Jul/92)
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- Archive-name: clarinet/pickgroups
-
- There are over 200 ClariNet newsgroups and nobody is
- expected to read them all. Here's an overview of those you
- might want to check into.
-
- First of all, almost everybody should read clari.news.flash
- and clari.news.bulletin. These contain only the very
- biggest stories.
-
- Unless you really want to restrict your reading, also read
- clari.news.urgent, which contains all the top stories of the
- day. It and the above two groups are your front page.
-
- If you want to read just the top stories in an area, then consider:
-
- clari.news.top (Front section)
- clari.news.top.world (World News section front page)
- clari.biz.top (Business section front page)
- clari.sports.top (Sports section front page)
-
-
- You may instead wish to just look for stories of "major"
- priority (which will be crossposted to a "top" group) in the
- groups of interest you like. The above groups are priority
- specific. The rest are subject-specific.
-
- You may also decide that you want to read only summaries of
- the news. In this case consider the following groups:
-
- clari.news.briefs Summary each morning of the top stories
- in the USA.
- clari.news.cast Summary every 2 hours of top U.S. and world
- stories.
- clari.news.headlines Hourly summary of the top headlines.
- clari.canada.newscast Hourly summary for Canada.
- clari.local.headlines Different headline summaries for U.S. regions.
- clari.local.*.briefs Summaries for the specific regions.
-
-
- You may find that you can read a summary group and then, if
- a story is of particular interest, look in the appropriate
- topic-specific group to track down all the details.
-
- You may want to pay particular attention to the "TechWire"
- groups in clari.tw. If you are in the computer industry,
- clari.tw.computers is a must. Clari.tw.science is also very
- useful.
-
- Just about everybody interested in computers should read
- clari.nb.top, for the top 5-6 computer and telecom stories
- of the day. If you have specific interests you will want to
- also subscribe to other Newsbytes groups. If you buy
- computers, be sure to use clari.streetprice.
-
- Next pick the subject specific groups of interest to you in
- the News, Sports and Business areas. If you follow stories
- for a specific special interest group such as gays, Jews,
- blacks or women, use a group from the clari.news.group
- hierarchy.
-
- If you follow news from Canada, look into the clari.canada
- hierarchy.
-
- Finally, round out your reading with some entertainment.
- Consider some of our clari.feature syndicated features --
- Dave Barry, Mike Royko, Miss Manners or Kinsey. Also look
- at clari.news.interest.people.column, a daily "people"
- column. You'll also like clari.news.interest.quirks -- a
- group just for the odd and funny items in the news. There's
- also a daily almanac in clari.news.almanac
-
- Follow the arts, movies and books. Try clari.news.arts,
- clari.news.books and clari.news.movies.
-
- Into finance and the markets? We have lots of regular
- market reports and business news in the clari.biz hierarchy.
-
- Sports stories are split up by sport. For the sports you
- follow, subscribe to the appropriate groups. The volume may
- be a bit high, but a good newsreader can help you deal with
- this.
-
- Those who follow international news will want to look at
- clari.news.europe and the very-high-volume
- clari.news.gov.international, in addition to
- clari.news.top.world, of course.
-
- If you follow supreme court decisions, read
- clari.news.law.supreme.
-
- There are many other groups, covering government, politics,
- wars, mishaps, disasters, the law, the courts, issues,
- labor, the military, entertainment, religion, sex, trends
- and weather to name just a few. Browse our group list to
- pick the topics that interest you.
-
- Don't forget our local hierarchy. There's a local group for
- most U.S. and Canadian regions, with news, briefs or both.
- Pick the groups for where you live, and perhaps for where
- you used to live.
-
- Finally: Be sure to subscribe to clari.net.announce for
- announcements of new groups and important information
- regarding ClariNet. If you wish to discuss ClariNet and
- issues with other subscribers in an open and unmoderated
- newsgroup, subscribe to clari.net.talk.
-