Mailing Lists for Techies?

A user asks: "I'm a member of various computer-related mailing lists, including the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter, the new Con Kolivas kernel patchset mailing list and a few others. What are the most interesting and informative mailing lists to receive?"

I dont know

[drfrog]

i think this depends on you levels of specialization

im on two main ones
[e-mail] and [e-mail]

ive been on other as nessecary to development

Re:

[account_deleted]

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TidBits!

[CokeBear]

http://www.tidbits.com/ [tidbits.com]

Mailing Lists I Like

[Goo.cc]

I am a Mac OS X user and I think that Omnigroup's MacOSX-admin & MacOSX-talk mailing lists are pretty good. You can get more information at the following URI:

http://www.omnigroup.com/developer/mailinglists/

And although I no longer use it, the NetBSD mailing lists are very good too.

Most Interesting Mailing Lists

[spector30]

I subscribe to Lockergnome, Red Hat's Under The Brim, and Mandrake's Newletter. Mostly just so I can keep my weekly quota of non-spam email coming in. Seriously, though, the rest I search for on my own. I never completely trust mailing lists to provide me what I want because most them have an agenda that involved advertising dollars.

if you want some real excitement

[nocomment]

Subscribe to [e-mail]. Then ask a question that's listed in the FAQ. The flames are better than the 4th!

Re:if you want some real excitement

[reallocate]

Flaming someone because you think they've asked a question answered in a FAQ is contradictory. If you're annoyed because you've wasted time reading something you don't need to read, why take even more time to post a flame? Just ignore and move on.

Of course, the answer isn't always in the FAQ, is it?

US-CERT Cyber Security

[linuxkrn]

The Cyber Security Alert System provides all citizens--from computer security professionals to home computer users--with free, timely, actionable information to better secure their computer systems.

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/signup.html [us-cert.gov]

BugTraq and NTBugTraq

[WWWAvenger]

BugTraq and NTBugTraq are THE software security lists.

Re:BugTraq and NTBugTraq

[cuzality]

In addition to BugTraq [securityfocus.com] and NTBugTraq [ntbugtraq.com], Full-Disclosure [netsys.com] is another excellent vulnerability list, and is always a week or two ahead of the "official" advisories.

For other lists, Fyodor's SecLists.org [seclists.org] is the list of security mailing lists.

Game development lists

[Matchstick]

For technical game development discussion, gdalgorithms is good: info [sourceforge.net].

sweng-gamedev is also sometimes interesting; as you might guess from the name, it focuses more on the engineering side and less on algorithms: info [midnightryder.com]

Re:Game development lists

[Stanza]

I've been subscribed to MUD-Dev ever since I can remember. Now they mostly talk about MMPORG's and little about text MUDs, and it's definately swayed from the technical to the marketing, but it's still very interesting (and very wordy! I can't keep up).

https://www.kanga.nu/lists/listinfo/mud-dev/

Ummm? Specifics?

[consolidatedbord]

What do you find interesting, and what do you need to be informed about?
Security? [securityfocus.com]
Wine updates? [winehq.com]
http://seclists.org/ [seclists.org]
http://www.cert.org/ [cert.org]
Those are interesting and informative for me, but a perl developer can probably give a damn about the latest nmap release.

What are your needs?

The Pay-Per-View Mortgage Enlargement List

[joelparker]

Subscribe now, and you'll learn how to get Uncle Sam to reduce your debt so you can buy the blue pill to earn the diploma you deserve as an ordained minister. Plus there are so many cute chicks on the list! :)

um, yes

[GCP]

Post a question to any Usenet newsgroup or put up a Web page, and make sure to include your email address, and you can join the rest of us on the Ultimate Mailing List.

NANOG

[jon787]

North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes [nanog.org]

Re:NANOG

[vlm]

The digest form of the north american network operators group is an efficient way to keep up with the world of the net

All Windows users should subscribe to Microsoft's

[poulbailey]

All Windows users should subscribe to Microsoft's security advisories by email. They cater to both technical people and people who just want an easy-to-understand digest with some links.

Subscribe here:
http://microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/not ify.mspx [microsoft.com]

Strategic News Service

[prostoalex]

If you are into technology industry, future trends and perhaps have some investment portfolio, get Strategix News [tapsns.com] from Mark Anderson.

Really nice weekly publication with the predictions and data on current markets, correspondence written in by Michael Dell, US senators, venture capitalists, etc. (Who reads SNS? [tapsns.com])

It's not free, but if your hobby includes making money on tech, it's the best.

Full-Disclosure

[robochan]

We believe in it. [netsys.com]

The signal to noise ratio can get pretty bad at times, but there are always intersting discussions.

The Risks Digest [ncl.ac.uk] is also pretty interesting.

Before anyone joins any maillists

[Screaming Lunatic]

Please read this [catb.org] first.

The linux-kernel mailing list

[RuneB]

How about the linux-kernel mailing list? The kernel programmers have to always keep how the computer handles a piece of code in mind. For example, two pieces of similar looking code could have vast performance differences due to cache and branching behaviors, which is discussed often on the mailing list.

Many programmers don't really pay attention to how their code is handled and create code that "looks" good but performs badly.

I'm on

[howman]

IBMs useability mailing list. it is usually informative.

Re:I'm on

[mooingyak]

Avoid Outlook virii, use carrier pidgeons...
nothing says I love you like bird poop on a keyboard...

If I had mod points right now, you'd get one just for that sig.

Re:I'm on

[howman]

Well, thank you... I think people need to create interesting sigs... too bad /. doesn't have a best of the best sig catagory where you can actually mod sigs separately from comments. i have seen some really good ones now and then.

Slashdot?

[invisik]

Not quite a mailing list, mind you, but seriously, who needs more then what Slashdot offers?

-m

Re:Slashdot?

[Idealius]

People who are interested in more THAN just Apache, Apple, Books, BSD, Developers, Games, Interviews (/w Techies), Science, and YRO.

Well...

You did ask.

Um?

[Johnny Mnemonic]

Depends on your interests? I have quite a few subscriptions to Apple mail lists [apple.com] and Mac-Mgrs [mac-mgrs.org] but if you're not a Mac guy you're not likely to care very much.

for windoz world

[scupper]

http://www.activedir.org [activedir.org]

http://www.ntbugtraq.com/ [ntbugtraq.com]

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive [securityfocus.com]

FAS Secrecy News [fas.org]

Linux Users Group of Davis Lists [lugod.org]

linux-wlan(tm) Project Mailing Lists [linux-wlan.com]

Re:for windoz world

[scupper]

OK, I added a few non-windoz

Re:for windoz world

[stevenbdjr]

Some of my favorite Windows related lists:

• WinNT-L [lsoft.com]
• Swynk Exchange List [sparklist.com]
• Microsoft's own newsgroups [microsoft.com]

mozilla

[Down8]

I like my lists very focused. So I CC myself on Bugzilla topics of interest to me.

-bZj

misc@@@@openbsd.org

[RupertJ]

Come for the technical tips, stay for the Theo/Reed battering flamewars.

Insane Science Mailing List

[xanderwilson]

Not anymore, of course. It doesn't exist anymore. When onelist merged with egroups or egroups merged with Yahoo, ISML and some celebrity/model fangroup had dibs on the ISML "name" so ISML became "Future Science Mailing List" or FSML. And then it was no more.

If anyone knows of a current group like it or if it morphed into another list of another name, I'd love to know. Last I heard of it was November '02. Great unusual finds from the fringes of tech and science.

Alex.

iSeries / AS400 / i5 user ...

[marko_ramius]

... will find the mailing lists hosted at http://www.midrange.com interesting.

Re:iSeries / AS400 / i5 user ...

[Usquebaugh]

Hmmm

he asked for techie mailing lists, not business orientated pgmrs asking how to automate ftp.

Re:iSeries / AS400 / i5 user ...

[marko_ramius]

Pay closer attention ... while midrange.com does host a number of business programming lists, it also hosts lists on ...

• Java programming [midrange.com]
• Assembler [midrange.com]
• Linux [midrange.com]
• C programming [midrange.com]
• Perl programming [midrange.com]

... all on the iSeries.

Re:iSeries / AS400 / i5 user ...

[Usquebaugh]

Very few messages in Perl, Linux or Assembler. Which leaves Java and C. Face it the ISeries is not a hackers box.

Although I am interested in running OS/5 on X86

Re:iSeries / AS400 / i5 user ...

[marko_ramius]

No argument ... iSeries isn't a hackers box ... but the original request was for TECHIE lists. You can get plenty technical on the iSeries.

mr

Bosst for C++

[David Greene]

The Boost [sourceforge.net] developer mailing list provides a wealth of practical experience and innovative software engineering for the C++ programmer. Not only do you learn how the amazing libraries work, you get to see the thought and development process that goes into them. I did not really understand templates until I joined this list.

Mozilla Newsletters

[superyooser]

Two newsletters [mozdev.org]: Mozilla Links Newsletter for general users and Mozilla Developer Links for developers.

Mailing List, Shmailing List

[some guy I know]

I get all of the important tech news I need by reading Slashdot.
Everything else is filler.

gmane

[dargaud]

And more important, which of those mailing lists can be viewed on the gmane [gmane.org] email to usenet portal ? Mailing lists are such a pain to manage and attract so much spam to your account...