Some existing meetings

Several popular and long-running meetings are listed below, each with a brief description of the topics typically found in them. The number in brackets corresponds to the transaction number of the meeting anouncement in New_Meetings which you can use to add the meeting. Several of these meetings are set up to be the recipients of one or more mailing lists. Such lists are generally set up as read-only; if you wish to reply, then you should send to the mailing list. Reading these archived lists in DISCUSS allows one to decrease the amount of mail received and to save disk space. The two meetings New_Meetings and Everybody that are created in the default .meetings file are ones you will most likely want to keep.

New_Meetings, new_meetings

-- Announcements of new meetings, and a good place to find the meetings you want to attend.

Everybody, eve

-- Talk and flamage on topics of general interest.

Central_America, ca

[0163] -- An offshoot of a previous version called Panama. Each primary transaction contains all the .plan files that have been changed since the previous day. Some of these start some interesting chains.

Quotes_Misquotes..., quotes

[0080] -- A collection of funny, embarrassing, witty, or out-of-context quotes made by various people.

Professors_Quote_Board, pqb

[0143] -- Similar to quotes, but reserved for quotes made by professors and other instructors.

mit.bboard

[0411] -- Recipient of the newsgroup ``mit.board'', a bulletin board for public announcements, lost & found, for-sale notices, etc.

Athena_MSGS, msgs

[0105] -- Recipient of the ``usermsgs'' maillist.

Compact_Disc, cd

[0148] -- Recipient of the ``cd'' maillist for discussion and bartering of cd's.

Science Fiction & Fantasy, sff

[0256] -- Chat about sci-fi and fantasy books and their authors.

Depressing_Thoughts, coatrack

[0166] -- A ``coatrack'' on which to leave one's problems, take those worries off one's chest, and sigh.

Cheery_Thoughts, ping

[0329]-- An alternative to coatrack for optimists and others to express the nice things in life. Also look for Amusing_Thoughts, Scary_Thoughts, Bogus_Thoughts, Flaming_Thoughts, Other_Thoughts, and more.

Discuss_development, discuss

[0106] -- For discussion (pun intended) of the development of DISCUSS, mention of bugs discovered, changes introduced.