From: manning@cco.caltech.edu (Evan Marshall Manning)
Newsgroups: misc.legal
Subject: Re: Online Legal
Date: 30 Sep 1992 20:43:16 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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rc@depsych.Gwinnett.COM (Richard Carlson) writes:

>I was fascinated to see Erik J. Heels' post concerning a resource
>called The Legal List.  In particular I hadn't realized what a
>paucity of sources of legal information and discussion there is in
>the entire online community.  He writes:

>>5.  USENET NEWSGROUPS
>>---------------------
>>
>>5.1  The following USENET newsgroups are of a legal nature:
>>
>>        comp.patents ***[need description, focal point, archive info]
>>
>>        misc.legal ***[need description, focal point, archive info]
>>
>>        misc.legal.computing ***[need description, focal point, archive info]

>There are only _three_ Newsgroups dealing with legal matters on
>the entire Usenet? (I have just seen the proposal for a family law
>Newsgroup.  That would make four.)

Here is the list I drew up a few months ago when there were rumours
of a misc.legal FAQ being prepared:

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alt.activism : Discussion of activism.

alt.child-support : Discussion of child support problems and their
(possible) solutions, or the weaknesses and strengths of the
child-support systems in force today.

alt.dads-rights : Discussion of problems and their (possible)
solutions, or the weaknesses and strengths of divorced/divorcing
fathers in settlements, custody disputes, or other matters involved
in marital dissolution.

alt.society.civil-liberty : Discussion of civil liberties, what they
are and what they should be.

alt.tv.la-law : L. A. Law is a US television show set in a Los
Angeles law firm.  Discussion often includes comparison of show's
legal events to reality.

clari.news.issues.civil_rights, clari.news.law, clari.news.law.civil,
clari.news.law.crime, clari.news.law.crime.sex,
clari.news.law.crime.trial, clari.news.law.crime.violent,
clari.news.law.drugs, clari.news.law.investigation,
clari.news.law.police, clari.news.law.prison,
clari.news.law.profession, clari.news.law.supreme : Clarinet is a
paid service which provides newspaper articles.  These groups may be
of particular interest.

comp.patents : Issues related to computers and patents, including
software patents.

gnu.misc.discuss : Discussion in this group frequently includes
issues of software patents, copyright, and "copyleft".

misc.consumers, misc.consumers.house : legal issues of consumer
recourse frequently arise.

misc.legal.computing : Legal issues related to computers.

misc.legal : Legal issues not adequately addressed in other groups.

news.announce.newusers, news.newusers.questions : Introductory
material for the net as a whole.

talk.politics.animals, talk.politics.drugs, talk.politics.guns,
talk.politics.misc, talk.politics.theory : Political discussions.

usa-today.law : The legal portion of another paid information feed.

Thanks are owed to Bob Kirkpatrick (bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us) for the
entries on alt.child-support and alt.dads-rights, adapted from his
FAQ for those groups.

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