This is a directory of e-mail discussion lists. This lists several mailing lists for parents of children with special needs, including two relating to premature babies. Special Education Exchange list of E-mail discussion lists This site offers an extensive list of mailing lists along with instructions on how to subscribe. SNE hosts several excellent discussion lists. There are other lists as well.
Blind adults are also welcome, but the primary focus of the list is the needs of the parents.
Visit the BVI-Parents home page for information on how to subscribe to either list. Newsreader software comes bundled with the Netscape Navigator browser. There are over 15,000 newsgroups and they are generally geared around a particular subject. One popular use for them is as a forum for experts and novices to help each other with computer-related questions or problems. Through a search engine called Dej News you can search through even these expired articles to find what you're looking for.