You can join these lists to keep yourself informed, ask questions or search the existing archives. Another way to find some of the 85,000 mailinglists is by searching the master lists which have a gateway to the World Wide Web . It will pull up a whole list containing all known mailinglists on the chosen topic. On the Web based search sites you can often choose between searching in mailinglists or in newsgroups or both. In order to use every possibility - read them.
Every site is different, and so are the commands for searching the mailinglists.
Even though most of this page dealt with mailinglists and not with newsgroups , you shouldn't forget about them. The reason we didn't write so much about the newsgroups is because they are much easier to find. Not least because of Google Groups. This service searches 50,000 present discussion forums and newsgroups for you, and also several archived ones. And these articles often contain information and point to many resources that might not be found through web searches.