docs/publicity/publicity.txt

   1 Publicity notes and ideas
   2 =========================
   3
   4 Release announcments can be made to the following
   5 newsgroups.
   6
   7 Microsoft:
   8
   9 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
  10 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
  11 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.mfc
  12 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.misc
  13 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
  14 comp.windows.ms.programmer
  15 microsoft.public.win32.programmer.tools
  16 microsoft.public.win32.programmer.ui
  17
  18 Non-Microsoft:
  19
  20 comp.programming
  21 comp.os.linux.development.apps
  22 comp.os.linux.announce
  23 comp.sys.mac.programmer.info
  24 comp.sys.mac.programmer.tools
  25 comp.software-eng
  26 comp.lang.c++
  27
  28 comp.windows.misc
  29 comp.windows.x
  30 comp.windows.x.announce
  31 comp.windows.x.motif
  32
  33
  34 News and links sites:
  35 -----------------------
  36
  37 slashdot.org, freshmeat.net
  38
  39 Many of these links will be out of date now:
  40
  41 www.Linuxberg.com
  42 www.visual-developer.com (Visual Developer Magazine, editor:
  43   Jeff Duntemann <jeffd@coriolis.com>)
  44 http://www.hal9k.com/cug/index.htm (C/C++ user group)
  45 www.program.com
  46 www.graphtech.com/vcgroup.html (VC++ user group)
  47 www.motifzone.com
  48 fsw.com
  49 landru.unx.com/DD/advisor/index.shtml (X advisor journal)
  50 landru.unx.com/DD/solutions/index.html (Cross Platform
  51 Solutions magazine)
  52 www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/bam/www/toolnames.html
  53   (Brad Myers' Tool List)
  54 http://sal.kachinatech.com/index.shtml: SAL (Scientific Applications on Linux)
  55    is a collection of information and links to software that will be of interest
  56    to scientists and engineers.
  57
  58 Shareware sites
  59 ----------------
  60
  61 We could put a demo (e.g. widgets) on:
  62
  63 winfiles.com
  64 tucows.com
  65 upload.com (zdnet)
  66 simtel.net
  67 shareware.com
  68
  69 among others.
  70
  71 Linux distributors:
  72 --------------------
  73
  74 Red Hat, SuSE, Debian, etc.
  75
  76 PC Magazines:
  77 --------------
  78
  79 CD-ROM distributions for PC Plus, PCW
  80
  81