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extracting the relevant words, and then plugging them into the search. You
may ind some mailing lists to be so information-rich you want to com-
pletely monitor them instead of just looking at search results. You have
ways to monitor both.
Google Groups and Yahoo Groups are without question the largest Usenet
and mailing list resources out there. But there are other repositories of
mailing lists as well. And though you may not ind that you want to moni-
tor every last one of these, they're worth looking at.
tip
some of the following resources just show you what mailing lists
are available. They do not allow you to search archives. You may
ind lists here you want to monitor, but you'll only be able to
monitor them by subscribing to them. in the next chapter we look
at managing information low via e-mail accounts.
Topica
here are actually two kinds of searches you can do on Topica (lists.topica.
com): you can search for lists and you can search for messages.
On the front page is a directory of mailing lists you can browse or a search
box. hat search box will ind you mailing lists. However, once you run the
search you get more options ( Figure 9.12 ).
Figure 9.12 once you do an initial search, you can do a second search for groups or messages containing
your keyword.