News

Public Newsgroups

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Select your topic and click on the Find button.

Archive locations

See the Newsgroup Archive page here for links to online archive including direct links to current month activity for selected newsgroups.
See also The Unofficial IBM-MAIN FAQ.
dBforums archives assorted database-related forums including some comp.lang newsgroups
talkaboutprogramming - archives for comp.lang newsgroups
Web-based news readers can be found at Gmane and Nabble

Discussion Groups

AFP-L: sponsored by XPLOR. Now hosted by Topica. You can find more information at the AFP-L page.
MVS-OE: To sign up, send email to listserv@vm.marist.edu and in the body of the note put; sub mvs-oe your_first_name your_last_name.
RACF-L: There is an archive at UGA.

IBM Newsgroups

IBM operates news servers at:

For more information, see

Blogs

DeveloperWorks
Mainframe blog
Mainframe Weekly
Adventures in systems land - Mark Cathcart
Computerworld
ITtoolbox
IT In-Depth
TechTarget
Mainframe zone

See Newsgroup Etiquette here for some notes about posting to newsgroups.

IBM Newsletters has moved to Big Iron books.