off the subject 1830

Kid, I helped you a lot. I detailed how you do this properly. I didn't call you a bozo, I didn't simply tell you this was the wrong place, I took the time to write down how you begin to find what you want.

People never learn if they have your atbreastude that people shouldn't say anything unless it's something nice. They spend too much time reacting like you do, that the person commenting is the problem rather than than the problem being themselves. You asked an off-topic question, so you deserve all you get. You had nothing useful to say here, so you should have thought twice about posting here.

Kid, if you think this is the most active group, you don't have a clue. And if you think this is the only nice place, you don't have a clue either.

I know your type well. Someone who has barely posted any nessages, and then decides it's okay to post an irrelevant question to a newsgroup.

There are thousands of newsgroups, and they exist for a purpose. What you'd like is One Big Newsgroup, where everyone posts together, because then nobody has to worry about finding the right newsgroup, and nobody has to worry that there'll be nobody to answer their question. But the problem with that One Big Newsgroup is that there'd be so much traffic that you'd never find the replies. So, the newsgroups are broken down into smaller subgroups, getting more and more specific as the traffic increases. If few are talking about something specific, then the most appropriate place is a fairly general newsgroup (note general, as in not a general or miscellaneous newsgroup dedicated to something specific, but a newsgroup dedicated to something pretty broad), or at the very most a fairly general newsgroup dedicated to something specific. But, the further down you go, the far less appropriate it is to ask an off topic question. So comp.os.os9 is the place to ask about a ago, there isn't much traffic because the operating system isn't used much anymore, but it isn't the place for anything else.

You started your question with "I know this has nothing to do with Linux" so of course the immediate reaction is that you need to be told to go elsewhere. I've seen too many newsgroups destroyed as people decide it's okay to post off-topic junk to it, and people gradually move away from the junk.

No, I am not the problem. It is people like you that is the problem.

Michael