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PART IV: The Newton Community on the Internet

• A) Discussions and groups
  • 1) What Newton newsgroups are there?
    • a) English newsgroups
    • b) A German-language newsgroup
    • 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?

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://www.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://members.aol.com/thisolnewt/html/links.html, Info-Newt's NUGs at http://www.info-newt.com/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. You can find them on the comp.pda.newton forum on the news.freeforum.org news server.
• JNUG The Japan Newton Users [dead link] http://www.inagaki.nuie.nagoya-u.ac.jp/newton/NewtonJapan/Annai.html
• KNUG Korean Newton Users' Group http://www.messagepad.org/
• LANUG Los Angeles Newton User Group [dead link] http://www.primenet.com/~goodman/lanug.html
• MISNIC Mississippi Newton Interest Club 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/
• NewtChamp Vermont Newton Users [dead link] http://www.together.net/~hardy/NewtChamp.html
• 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 Användar 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&number=29&DaysPrune=20&LastLogin
• The Newton Developers Bulletin Board http://www.imageguild.com/newton/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi

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://members.aol.com/thisolnewt/html/links.html
  

2) Is there a Newton equivalent of Version Tracker?

Yes, you can go to Newton Versions by the Danish Newton User Group: http://www.dnug.dk/versions/

While they don't have software on their site, it's an up-to-date database listing and providing links to all known Newton software. (cf Part V for where to find Newton software)

3) Are there e-zines and daily (or regular) internet resources for the Newton?

• There is Info-Newt maintained by Bill Davis http://www.info-newt.com/.
• There is This Old Newt maintained by Rich Lindsay (monthly) http://members.aol.com/thisolnewt.
• You can also go to Newton Lifestyle, Das Online-Magazin von und für Newton Freaks: http://www.newton-lifestyle.de/

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