Dear members,
You must be aware of the fact (atleast by now) that
there exists many LUG (Linux User Groups) and FSUG (Free Software User
Groups) which have publicly available feeds of their message archive.
However the number of user groups/communities are not only very
large...it's hard to find out which ones have online mailing
lists...which among these have opened their message archive for public
preview (i.e. a visitor can read the messages without joining the
group)...and finally, what might be the URL's of those mailng lists?

One simple answer is http://feeds.goa-india.org/

It's a simple website with the message subjectlines from
members of various LUG's, FSUG's etc. of India (and some more
countries of Asia) appearing in reverse chronological order (in simple
words you get the latest news first and stale old news buried deep
within.
You can expand a subject line to read the summary (the default
abstract that a website exposes through it's RSS/Atom channel) and
also read the full article by clicking on the appropriate link.

Although, this site itself doestn't archive feeds for more
than a week...it serves as the perfect LUG newspaper. You get to see
all the news, links, software from such a wide variety of sources and
yet at the same time, they are guaranteed fresh..thanks to the RSS
technology...umm format actually. :)

Last but not the least...joining more than one LUG is
sometimes not only necessary (to get in touch with a community of
people better geared towards answering queries in certain fields of
open source/linux) but also encouraged (to volunteer your help to more
people than just those in your own user group / community.

We need to get discussions going on here...so maybe we'd feature on
http://feeds.goa-india.org. ;)

Hope you find the resource timely and useful.....or atleast a
constructive way of enjoying leisure time.. :)


Ciao.
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