On Wed, 10 May 2006 22:04:33 +0200, LOGAN wrote:

>> If you're looking for development groups, try news.gmane.org - there's a
>> couple there that are gated from mailing lists.  Discussions there tend to
>> be around program usability and development rather than modelling, however
>> - not sure if it's what you're looking for, but maybe a question to the
>> blender-users group would be a good starting point.
> 
> Thanks for your reply.
> 
> The Blender boards are big but web based (ie Forum). So I'm looking for the
> biggest newsgroups available :)
> 
> (Usability, Developement, Modelling and GameDesign.

For those, look at gmane.  It is an NNTP interface - I use it a lot for
keeping up on a number of projects.  From the standpoint of what you're
looking for, usability and development fit in the existing groups out
there.

In the last 30 days (I prune older messages than that),
gmane.comp.video.blender.devel has 407 messages, but
gmane.comp.video.blender.user has only one message.  But if you're
interested in development of Blender itself, the blender.devel group is
*the* place to participate. :-)

I also hate web-based forums, recently it seems VMware shut down their
news server and went strictly to web-based forums, which I absolutely
refuse to use - especially since there's software out there that provides
decent web front end to NNTP for those who want it (FUDForum seems to be
particularly good).

Jim

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