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A Comment: This list of links does not aim at being complete. We do not find any taste in giving huge lists of links for every subject, neither do we find any taste in covering every subject that might be relevant to Internet users.

Contents

1. Web Search Engines

2. Search Engines for Mailing Lists or Newsgroups

3. Other Search Engines

4. Services on the Web

5. Accessing the Internet by E-Mail

6. Sites for Frequently Asked Questions

7. Mailing Lists Related to Computers

8. Software Sites (Including DLL Sites and Drivers Sites)

9. Dictionaries of Internet and Computing terms, and Other Dictionaries

10. Viruses, Trojans, and Security on the Internet

11. Documents and Sites for Internet Related Topics

12. Other Relevant Mailing Lists

1.	Web Search Engines
2.	Search Engines for Mailing Lists or Newsgroups
3.	Other Search Engines
4.	Services on the Web
5.	Accessing the Internet by E-Mail
6.	Sites for Frequently Asked Questions
7.	Mailing Lists Related to Computers
8.	Software Sites (Including DLL Sites and Drivers Sites)
9.	Dictionaries of Internet and Computing terms, and Other Dictionaries
10.	Viruses, Trojans, and Security on the Internet
11.	Documents and Sites for Internet Related Topics
12.	Other Relevant Mailing Lists

1. Web Search Engines


Alltheweb (http://www.alltheweb.com) - a search engine with a huge database.
Google (http://www.google.com) - has a smaller database, but very effective in rating and ordering results.
Altavista (http://www.altavista.com) - a very powerful search engine with many valuable features. It is recommended to look at the help pages for the queries, for using the wise features of Altavista.
ZWorks power search (http://www.zworks.com/pwrsrch2.html) - is an excellent metasearch engine (collects results from many search engines). My own favourite.
Dogpile (http://www.dogpile.com) - is another meta searchengine. Good at giving you a taste of what is good in each of the search engines it uses.
Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com) - a searchible metadirectory.
Snap (http://www.snap.com) - another searchible metadirectory. Some say better, some say worse than Yahoo.
Infoseek (http://www.infoseek.com)
Lycos (http://www.lycos.com)
Overture (formerly Goto) (http://www.overture.com)
WebCrawler (http://www.webcrawler.com)
Other Search engines are mentioned at About.com (Miningco) (http://websearch.about.com/internet/websearch/msubmenu12.htm)
SearchIQ provides lists and reviews on many search engines and metasearch engines. Recommended. (http://www.zdnet.com/searchiq/).

2. Search Engines for Mailing Lists or Newsgroups

Tile (http://www.tile.net) - for both newsgroups and mailing lists.
Deja (http://www.deja.com/usenet/) - for newsgroups
Liszt (http://www.liszt.com) - for newsgroups and mailing lists
PAML (http://paml.alastra.com) - for mailing lists
Topica (http://www.topica.com) - for mailing lists
YahooGroups (http://groups.yahoo.com) - for mailing lists, searches only yahoogroups mailing lists (including Onelist's lists and EGroups lists which now moved to Yahoogroups.
Catalist (http://www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html) - for mailing lists, searches only Listserv mailing lists.
The Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences (http://n2h2.com/KOVACS/) - an interesting search engine, well filtered.
New-List archives (http://listserv.classroom.com/scripts/wa.exe?S1=new-list) - New-List is a mailing list where new mailing lists are announced, and the link above is the link for searching their archives.

3. Other Search Engines

Google (http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search) - Google have bought the the huge Usenet news archive from Deja, and now offers an excellent search engine for the newsgroups and their messages.
Mp3 search at Lycos (http://music.lycos.com/downloads/) - mp3 music
See also "Search engines for files" in this document.

4. Services on the Web

An nslookup service, which also allowsreverse nslookup, and a smart whois service which covers all top level domain names can be found on http://name-space.com/search/ .

5. Accessing the Internet by E-Mail

Accmail FAQ (http://www.faqs.org/faqs/internet-services/access-via-email/index.html) is the first document to read.
The most updated site for this topic is:http://www.expita.com.

6. Sites for Frequently Asked Questions

In many newsgroups and mailing lists dedicated for specific subjects and for many services, the same questions are asked again and again.
In order to save people from answering the same questions. People compile FAQ documents (each FAQ file is dedicated to some specific subject and answers common questions on that subject.
An excellent place to read and search FAQ files is http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ .

7. Mailing Lists Related to Computers

The following mailing lists are proper for these topics -

1. PC-NEWBIE - serves as a general PC/Mac help resource.
2. PCWORKS - high traffic list for everything related to PC.
3. PCHELP - for the same purpose as PC-NEWBIE.
4. LINUX - dedicated to Linux .
5. PC-ASK - for the same as the purpose of PC-Newbie.
6. PCBUILD - a mailing list dedicated to hardware issues.
7. PCSOFT - dedicated to software topics.
8. WIN-HOME - a help resource for various issues related to home pc
users with Windows operating systems. WIN-HOME is a merge of the
well known Win98-L and Win95-L lists which ceased to exist.

In order to subscribe to PC-NEWBIE , post a message to
majordomo@afterburner.sonic.net with a single line as the body of your
message:

SUBSCRIBE PC-NEWBIE

In order to subscribe to PCWORKS send a message to
majordomo@imagicomm.com with a single line as the body of your
message:

SUBSCRIBE PCWORKS

In order to subscribe to PCHELP send an empty message to:
pchelp-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

In order to subscribe to LINUX send an empty message to:
linux-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

In order to subscribe to one or more of the other lists mentioned
above (PC-ASK, PCBUILD, PCSOFT,WIN-HOME,), post a message to listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu
with one or more lines of the following type as body of your message:

SUB list_name your_full_name

where you should replace "list_name" with the name of the mailing-list
and "your_full_name" with your full name.

8. Software Sites (Including DLL Sites and Drivers Sites)

Some of the following sites archiving software, and some are just search engines of software.

Software databases and archives:

TuCows (http://www.tucows.com/) - a great archive of software, mostly related to the Internet, with mirrors around the world.
DaveCentral (http://www.davecentral.com/) - an excellent list of programs, categorized and with a search engine.
SlaughterHouse (http://www.slaughterhouse.com/) - good at Internet related software.
Simtel (http://www.simtel.net/simtel.net/) - a very big software archive. Has mirrors around the world.
Jumbo (http://www.jumbo.com/)
Garbo (http://garbo.uwasa.fi/) - a very big software archive
Download.com (http://download.cnet.com/) - from C'NET , a metadirectory.
Winfiles (http://winfiles.cnet.com/) - another site from C'NET.
WinSite (http://www.winsite.com/).
Alberts (http://www.alberts.com/) - non-freeware, only commercial.
HotFiles (http://hotfiles.zdnet.com/) - from ZDNET.
Straud's (http://cws.internet.com/).
NoNags (http://www.nonags.com/) - lists categorized, freeware, and shareware are seperated. Searchible.
CFS (http://www.completelyfreesoftware.com/) - a great one. Only for freeware.
TheFreeSite (http://www.thefreesite.com/) - only for freeware.
FreewareHome (http://www.freewarehome.com/) - only for freeware.
32bit (http://www.32bit.com/)

Search engines for files:

FTPSearch (http://ftpsearch.lycos.com/)
Filez (http://www.filez.com/zhub.shtml)
Shareware.com (http://shareware.cnet.com/) - from C'NET.
SoftSeek (http://www.softseek.com/) - another site from ZDNET.
FileWorld (http://www.pcworld.com/fileworld/) - from PCWorld. Not only for software.

Drivers:

WinDrivers (http://www.windrivers.com/)
DriversHeadquarters (http://www.drivershq.com/)
Other sites and ways to find device drivers(http://help-net.unl.edu/otherpds.html).

DLL archives:

DLLArchive (http://solo.abac.com/dllarchive/index.html)

9. Dictionaries of Internet and Computing Terms, and Other Dictionaries

Foldoc Dictionary of Internet and Computing Terms (http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk) is my favourite dictionary.
Onelook (http://www.onelook.com) has an extensive list of many dictionaries in various topics (including Internet and computing), and you can either browse the list of dictionaries, or search all of them from onelook for a term.
Britannica Online (http://search.britannica.com/) is a huge searchible Encyclopedia (you may use the advanced search there).

You can translate WWW pages or text from one language to another online, using either Babelfish (http://babelfish.altavista.com/) or InterTran (http://www.tranexp.com:2000/).

You can use a service by e-mail to send a message to someone (might be to yourself) in one language and getting a translation of it to another language, by using T-MAIL service (http://www.t-mail.com/).

For acronyms related to the Internet jargon, you may look at http://www.acronymfinder.com/ .

Every File Format in the World (http://whatis.techtarget.com/fileFormatA/) - What are the files' formats for different filename extensions. An alternative site is http://kresch.com/exts/ext.htm.
Another one is http://extsearch.com. Those sites help in finding a way to open files with filename extensions that are not familiar to you and not recognized by your operating system.

10. Viruses, Trojans, and Security on the Internet

A good place to start is: http://www.AntiOnline.com/fight-back/ .

An excellent review on personal firewalls can be found on http://www.boran.com/security/sp/pf/pf_main20001023.html .

A very good document which help you to understand firewalls and their reports is http://www.robertgraham.com/pubs/firewall-seen.html.

A very good list of free security tools can be found on http://www.wilders.org/free_tools.htm .

A document which explains the subtelty of filename extensions and viruses can be found on http://www.geocities.com/uzipaz/eng/safe.html.

11. Documents and Sites for Internet Related Topics

Documents:

Usenet Access Guide (http://www.geocities.com/uzipaz/eng/ua.html) - explains the way Usenet (i.e. newsgroups) works and ways to access it.
How to signoff from any mailing list (http://help-net.unl.edu/soal.html) - gives the information you need in order to be able to signoff from any mailing list (which you subscribed).

Sites:

LivingInternet (http://livinginternet.com)
NewbieNet's CyberCourse (http://www.newbie.net/CyberCourse/)

12. Other Relevant Mailing Lists

Discussion lists:

Cruise-L is a mailing list similar to Help-Net. It is fairly dead, right now, but it might be good for people who want to subscribe to a mailing list where they can ask Internet related questions, but prefer to subscribe to a low traffic mailing list. Like Help-Net, also Cruise-L is located at UNL. To subscribe, send a message to listserv@unl.edu with a single line as the BODY of your message:
SUB CRUISE-L your_full_name
(where you should replace "your_full_name" with your full name).

Accmail mailing list is dedicated to discussing accessing the Internet by e-mail.
To subscribe, send a message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.AOL.COM with the following line as the BODY of your message:
SUB ACCMAIL your_full_name
(where you should put your full name instead of "your_full_name".

Seeknfind is a mailing list which serves as a living search engine. i.e. if you are looking for something on the Internet and can't locate it using search engines, you may ask there, and people will try to help you locate the information. In order to subscribe, send a message to majordomo@ashlists.org with
"subscribe seeknfind" (without the quotes) as the BODY of your message.

Any-Browser is a nice mailing list dedicated to helping people in Web browsers topics.
In order to subscribe, send an empty message to any-browser-subscribe@yahoogroups.com .

HTML is a rather quiet, yet very useful list for HTML related topics, and web pages building.
In order to subscribe send a message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.AOL.COM with the the following line as the BODY of your message:
SUB HTML your_full_name
(where you should put your real name instead of "your_full_name").

Electronic newsletters and other mailing lists which are not discussion lists:

Net-Happenings is a high traffic mailing list, which notifies about web sites, services, software related to the Internet, newsletters, messages are categorized in a manner that allows you to choose only some categories.
to Subscribe to Net-Happenings, send a message to LISTSERV@HYPATIA.CS.WISC.EDU
with the following line as the BODY of your message:
SUB NET-HAPPENING your_full_name
(where you should put your full name instead of "your_full_name").

SquirrelHunt - is a very interesting project that helps people to learn how to locate information effectively, on the Internet.. The Squirrel Hunt, posts every 2 weeks a set of questions that one can locate the answers for them using the Internet. People who find the answers, may post them to the moderators, with full explanations of how they found the answers (which search engines, which keywords, etc.). The first group who find answers to all questions wins a price.
The answers, with a few chosen methods that people used to locate the answers are then given with full credit.
This way you may see how experienced Internet users locate information on the Internet.
The Squirrel Hunt took a very big vacation, but the moderator promised me that it will soon be back.
You may learn more about it (including looking at the archives, and subscription info) on
http://www.netsquirrel.com/hunt/index.html

Tourbus is a nice newsletter, posted twice a week. In each message, the authors cover a subject or two of interest to many Internet users. In order to subscribe to Tourbus, send a message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.AOL.COM with the following line as the BODY of your message:
SUB TOURBUS your_full_name
(where you should put your full name instead of "your_full_name").

IDG.Net is a great source for many newsletters related to many Internet and computers topics. Subscription is at http://www.idg.net (under "Free subscription"). Some of the newsletters are concentrated on tips. Some on news. Those newsletters aiming at news, contain only abstracts with links to the WWW for the articles themselves.

C'NET News Dispatch - a great source for news related to Internet and computation world. There are other sources for news, but I found this one reliable. The main articles are sitting in the WWW and only abstracts with links to the articles are sent via e-mail. Subscription from their site (http://www.news.com) - under "free newsletters".
If you, however, enter their "more newsletters" to check for further newsletters, notice that the "I would like to receive customized publications from respected companies" is checked by default, and you should notice it and consider unchecking it, before you hit the "submit".