My current Waterloo course (CS341 – Algorithm Design) is using a newsgroup to communicate with students and provide a forum for asking questions. I’ve been using Google Groups to participate easliy without having to set up a news reader like Outlook Express (blah!).
It just dawned on me though: There is a ton of knowledge contained within these newsgroups that you don’t get through Google’s normal search space. Literally, every newsgroup post is here and indexed. The life of any techie just got alot easier!
Check it out: Google Groups