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scot.* Scotland
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news:scot.announce       - Scotland/North England Wide: General Announcements.
news:scot.bairns         - Discussions about Scottish children.
news:scot.birds          - Birdwatching in Scotland.
news:scot.business.internet - Scottish business discussions about the Internet.
news:scot.environment    - Scottish environmental issues.
news:scot.followup       - Followups to scot.general articles.
news:scot.general        - Scotland/North England Wide: General Articles.
news:scot.jobs           - Jobs wanted and offered in Scotland.
news:scot.legal          - Scottish legal issues.
news:scot.newsgroups.announce - Official scot.* announcements
news:scot.newsgroups.discuss - Discussion of proposed new groups, rules etc.
news:scot.politics       - Scottish politics discussions.
news:scot.scots          - Scots language discussions.
news:scot.sports.soccer  - For the discussion of Scottish football.
news:scot.test           - Test postings in the scot.* hierarchy.


Announcements of proposed new groups in the scot.* hierarchy currently take
place in scot.newsgroups.announce, with the discussion taking place in
scot.newsgroups.discuss. The committee who manage the scot.* hierarchy is
comprised of: Simon Brooke, Craig Cockburn, Duncan Dewar, Neil Fernandez,
David Marsh, Sandy Morton and Bob Scott.
The Scot* netnews committee can be contacted on
mailto:committee@scot.news-admin.org

Committee proceedings are currently posted to news:scot.general.
http://www.scot.news-admin.org/ has more details regarding the management
of the scot.* hierarchy, the committee and procedures for creating new
groups and amending existing ones.

For control messages in the scot.* hierarchy, see
ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/control/scot/

Global/UK Groups
----------------
news:alt.arts.storytelling - Storytelling
news:alt.politics.british - British Politics
news:alt.scottish.clans
A group has been created called alt.scottish.clans. The purpose of
this group is to discuss the folklore, traditions and history of the
various Scottish clans. Current clan gatherings and announcements will
also be found here. Anyone interested in this sort of thing is invited
to join in the discussions. "Crest of the Clan Chief" in Gaelic
is "Suaicheantas a ceann cinnidh"
news:alt.tv.highlander                  - The Highlander TV show
news:alt.uk.edinburgh.misc              - Edinburgh
news:alt.uk.virtual-glasgow             - Glasgow
news:rec.heraldry                       - Heraldry
news:rec.music.celtic                   - Celtic music (Irish & Scottish bias)
news:rec.music.folk                     - General Folk music (US/England bias)
news:rec.music.makers.bagpipe   - Discussions about bagpipes, playing them etc.
news:rec.org.sca          - Recreating history, re-enactments etc
news:sci.archaeology     - Archaeology. Scottish sites occasionally discussed.
news:soc.genealogy.britain - Genealogy in Britain
news:soc.culture.british - British culture in general (strong England bias)
news:soc.culture.celtic  - Celtic culture in general (Irish/Scottish bias)
news:soc.culture.scottish - Anything regarding Scotland or things Scots.
news:uk.local.borders-region - The Scottish Borders
news:uk.local.glasgow - Glasgow
news:uk.local.lothians - The Lothian region
news:uk.local.scot-highlands - The Scottish Highlands
news:uk.music.folk       - Folk music in the UK (England bias)
There are a large number of other groups in the uk.*
hierarchy, some of which have Scottish relevance (eg news:uk.politics.misc)

Other
-----
news:ns.general - General Nova Scotia discussions

There is also an eduni.* hierarchy for Edinburgh University a hw.* hierarchy
for Heriot Watt University and a strath.* hierarchy for Strathclyde
University but none of these is intended to propagate outside the university.
A gla.* hierarchy also seems to exist and appears to be private to Glasgow
university (i.e. the .gla.ac.uk domain). The west.* groups serve the West of
Scotland but these are poorly propagated and hardly anyone knows about
them. There is also confusion between these groups and an ISP in the US.

More info on usenet
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http://www.clark.net/pub/usenet-i/www/info-center-faq.html
Information about usenet in general, links to groups and FAQs


[20.5] How to get scot.* hierarchy groups

The scot.* hierarchy
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http://www.scot.news-admin.org/

Read the groups at
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http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&group=scot


Google carries the full list, they just don't show it.

Public news feed servers:
pubnews.demon.co.uk

Also see:

http://www.jammed.com/~newzbot/


[20.6] Getting hooked up to the Internet

Have a look in the UK Internet List, Britain's first guide to
Internet providers. Particularly suitable for home based dialup info
http://www.limitless.co.uk/inetuk/providers.html

Founded by Craig Cockburn, mailto:craig@SiliconGlen.com in June 1992.

For UK based web hosting options, check out
http://uk.tophosts.com/


[20.7] Internet Cafes and Public Internet Access Points

Dunfermline:
Surf on Air, 16 Bonnar Street, Dunfermline
Tel: 01383 729436

Edinburgh:
Connections, 5 Colinton Road, EH10 5DP
Tel: 0131 446 9494
mailto:admin@heimdall-scot.co.uk

Cyberia, 88 Hanover Street. (0131 220 4403)
mailto:edinburgh@easynet.co.uk
http://www.cybersurf.co.uk/home/cafe/

Entertainment World, 138 Lothian Road.(0131 229 5333)
mailto:eworld@btinternet.com

Web 13, 13 Bread Street. (0131 229 8883)
mailto:queries@presence.co.uk
http://www.web13.co.uk/

There's also one in Leith, near the Royal Bank.

Glasgow:
The Internet Cafe, 239 North Street. (0141 221 8447)
mailto:tim@linkcafe.co.uk
(currently closed due to demolition work)
There is another Internet Cafe in Park Road - opened October 96
Java, 152 Park Road. (0141 337 6727)
and possibly another in Charing Cross
John Smith & Sons Bookshop mailto:coffee@johnsmith.co.uk
57 St Vincent Street. (0141 221 7472)

Greenock:
Cafe Roslin, Dalrymple Street. (01475 730 576)
mailto:roslin@easynet.co.uk

Inverness:
http://www.invernet.co.uk/


[20.8] How can I find someone in Scotland on the Internet?

This is a usenet FAQ which can apply to finding people anywhere in the
world. See the FAQ for more information, the URL is:
http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/FAQs/email/finding.html


[20.9] Faxing Scotland by E-mail

Send a mail to mailto:tpcfaq@info.tpc.int for information on a free service
which will allow you to send an e-mail and have it converted into a fax
and faxed from a server in the UK to the phone number of your choice.


[21.1] Scottish links

http://www.rampantscotland.com/
Rampant Scotland - over 7,000 links to web pages about Scotland

http://www.discover-scotland.com/
A very rich site with on-the-fly GIS mapping capabilities for over
30,000 Scottish resources. (Yep, it locates them in proper geographic
space). It even locates the closest pub to your target destination.

http://celt.net/og/angscot.htm
http://scottishculture.miningco.com/
http://thecapitalscot.com/
http://www.destination-scotland.com/
http://www.electricscotland.com/
http://www.scotweb.co.uk/
http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/home/scotland/scotland.html
http://www.hebrides.com/
http://www.highlanderweb.co.uk/
http://www.scotland.com/
http://www.scotland.org/
http://www.scotlandonline.com/
http://www.yahoo.co.uk/ - UK based but some relevant to Scotland
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Heritage/FSCNS/ScotsHome.html - Nova Scotia
http://www.lochness.co.uk/
http://www.onlinescotland.com/
http://www.webcom.com/us_scot/
http://www2.wcoil.com/~highlndr/ - United States

http://www.scottishradiance.com/
A Hebridean Journal
Huge amount of information about Scottish culture in an electronic
magazine format. Buy books, find out Scottish facts, practice your
Gaelic and much much more.


The alternative Scottish FAQ from Scot.general
http://www.gonadovision.demon.co.uk/visitors.htm
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/academic/languages/gaelic/Scc/scot.general

http://www.gla.ac.uk/World/     (Needs that capital 'W')
For info regarding Glasgow's environs including hotels, on-line papers,
theatres, etc. Contains links to places wider afield in Scotland too.

http://www.pictphd.demon.co.uk/
Info on Constitution, Stone of Destiny, Treaty of Union etc.

http://www.britannica.com/
Encyclopaedia Britannica (founded in Scotland)


[21.2] Mailing lists

Lists-of-lists

For information on public Internet mailing lists, see:
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/mail/mailing-lists

For information on all listserv lists, send an e-mail to any listserv
(e.g. mailto:listserv@listserv.hea.ie)
containing the line
list global
alternatively you can refine the search by adding a subject:
list global/poetry
or search via http://www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html

There is a HUGE file the "SRI list of lists" which describes every
public mailing list and has instructions on how to subscribe.
ftp://ftp.nisc.sri.com/netinfo/interest-groups
or mailto:mail-server@nisc.sri.com with a message containing the line
send /netinfo/interest-groups
(the message will come back in several parts which you will then have
to piece together)

See also [19.3] for info on Scottish politics e-mail lists


[21.3] Celtic information and Celtic FAQs

Celtic
======
Encyclopaedia of the Celts
http://home.worldonline.dk/~kmariboe/
http://celt.net/Celtic/celtopedia/indices/encycintro.html

Celtic FAQ
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newsgroup
news:soc.culture.celtic

FAQ location
http://www.siliconglen.com/celtfaq/

Celtic Music FAQ
-----------------
newsgroup
news:rec.music.celtic

FAQ location
http://www.collins-peak.co.uk/rmc/

Celtic Countries
================

Brittany
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newsgroup news:soc.culture.breton

FAQ location
http://www.irisa.fr/prive/cedelle/breizh/faq/

Cornwall
--------
newsgroup news:soc.culture.cornish

FAQ location
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~marcie/kernow/faq.html

Ireland
-------
newsgroup news:soc.culture.irish

FAQ location
http://www.enteract.com/~cpm/irish-faq

Scotland
--------
newsgroup news:soc.culture.scottish

FAQ location
http://www.siliconglen.com/Scotland/

Wales
-----
newsgroup news:soc.culture.welsh

FAQ location
http://www.fydd.org/zone/scw/

Isle of Man
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Manx Information
http://www.manxman.co.im/

http://www.iomguide.com/
An online guide to the Isle of Man.

Manx Bulletin Board
http://www.isle-of-man.com/information/bulletin/

Isle of Man/Manx mailing list
mailto:manx@egroups.com

Nova Scotia
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Nova Scotian Information
http://www.gaeliccollege.edu/


[22.1] Alphabetic list of links in this FAQ

I've extracted all the WWW addresses from this soc.culture.scottish
FAQ - here they are. Thought this might be useful to maintainers of
Scottish or Celtic WWW sites or for searching. Here they are sorted
alphabetically

I also find this page handy for submitting to link checkers to ensure
the links in the FAQ work. These links were verified by
http://www.faqs.org/cgi-bin/faqs/vlinks/ and
Xenu Link Sleuth http://www.snafu.de/~tilman/xenulink.html
and
SEVENtwentyfour Inc http://www.seventwentyfour.com/




[22.2] Links to pages of this FAQ

This is a list of links to pages in the FAQ itself. This allows me to
submit this page to spidering programs and have the whole site indexed
quickly.

http://www.siliconglen.com/
http://www.siliconglen.com/Scotland/
http://www.siliconglen.com/Scotland/contents.html
http://www.siliconglen.com/Scotland/celtic.html
http://www.siliconglen.com/Scotland/dance.html
http://www.siliconglen.com/Scotland/education.html
http://www.siliconglen.com/Scotland/festivals.html
http://www.siliconglen.com/Scotland/fooddrink.html
http://www.siliconglen.com/Scotland/gaelic.html
http://www.siliconglen.com/Scotland/gaelicsong.html
http://www.siliconglen.com/Scotland/general.html
http://www.siliconglen.com/Scotland/history.html
http://www.siliconglen.com/Scotland/internet.html
http://www.siliconglen.com/Scotland/literature.html
http://www.siliconglen.com/Scotland/media.html
http://www.siliconglen.com/Scotland/moreinfo.html
http://www.siliconglen.com/Scotland/music.html
http://www.siliconglen.com/Scotland/places.html
http://www.siliconglen.com/Scotland/politics.html
http://www.siliconglen.com/Scotland/scots.html
http://www.siliconglen.com/Scotland/songs.html
http://www.siliconglen.com/Scotland/sport.html
http://www.siliconglen.com/Scotland/traditions.html
http://www.siliconglen.com/Scotland/travel.html


<<< END OF FAQ >>>

-- 
Craig Cockburn ("coburn"). SiliconGlen.com Ltd. http://SiliconGlen.com
Home to the first online guide to Scotland, founded 1994.
Scottish FAQ, wedding info, travel, search tools, stop spam and more!

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