File for notes about publicity, incl. newsgroups for announcements.

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+Publicity notes and ideas
+=========================
+
+Release announcments can be made to the following
+newsgroups.
+
+Microsoft:
+
+comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
+comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
+comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.mfc
+comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.misc
+comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
+comp.windows.ms.programmer
+microsoft.public.win32.programmer.tools
+microsoft.public.win32.programmer.ui
+
+Non-Microsoft:
+
+comp.programming
+comp.os.linux.development.apps
+comp.os.linux.announce
+comp.sys.mac.programmer.info
+comp.sys.mac.programmer.tools
+comp.software-eng
+comp.lang.c++
+
+comp.windows.misc
+comp.windows.x
+comp.windows.x.announce
+comp.windows.x.motif
+
+
+News and links sites:
+-----------------------
+
+slashdot.org, freshmeat.net
+
+Many of these links will be out of date now:
+
+www.Linuxberg.com
+www.visual-developer.com (Visual Developer Magazine, editor:
+  Jeff Duntemann <jeffd@coriolis.com>)
+http://www.hal9k.com/cug/index.htm (C/C++ user group)
+www.program.com
+www.graphtech.com/vcgroup.html (VC++ user group)
+www.motifzone.com
+fsw.com
+landru.unx.com/DD/advisor/index.shtml (X advisor journal)
+landru.unx.com/DD/solutions/index.html (Cross Platform
+Solutions magazine)
+www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/bam/www/toolnames.html
+  (Brad Myers' Tool List)
+http://sal.kachinatech.com/index.shtml: SAL (Scientific Applications on Linux)
+   is a collection of information and links to software that will be of interest
+   to scientists and engineers.
+
+Shareware sites
+----------------
+
+We could put a demo (e.g. widgets) on:
+
+winfiles.com
+tucows.com
+upload.com (zdnet)
+simtel.net
+shareware.com
+
+among others.
+
+Linux distributors:
+--------------------
+
+Red Hat, SuSE, Debian, etc.
+
+PC Magazines:
+--------------
+
+CD-ROM distributions for PC Plus, PCW
+
+