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Online Forums

Many websites allow users to post questions and comments in threads in forums according to some topic or common interest. This is a useful mechanism. Forum sites are valuable resources and a lot of fun.

Here is a list of forum websites that I have found. Many of them I have joined and post messages on. Others I only visit rarely.

Also, see the tip about double underlines below.

Other Computer-Oriented Forum Sites

RegexAdvice
GID Forums Web design, C/C++, PHP and MySQL
DomainState Domain News & Views
Dell Support
SpeedGuide.net Broadband Internet
MC MCSE Certifications (e.g. A+, MCSE)

Other Forum Sites

Physics Forums
WordReference Forum Word usage and linguistics

Consumer Opinion Forums

Comcast forums
Howard Forums: Your Mobile Phone Community & Resource
MobilEdia Cell Phone Forums
Cell Phone Hacks

Sites that sponsor many forums

ForumsLand.com
Voy Forums
Nabble Forums for Everyone

Double Underlines

Many forum sites (and other sites) sell advertising that appears as double underlines under random words on the page. When the mouse moves across these words, the advertisements pop up. But the really irritating thing is how long it takes to run the script that selects the words to double underline.

I prevent the double underlines and the delay in all my forum browsing, and you can too if you use Firefox. First, install Adblock (or Adblock Plus if you prefer). Then block these sites:

http://*.kontera.com/* http://*.intellitxt.com/intellitxt/* http://itxt.vibrantmedia.com/intellitxt/* http://ctxtad.tribalfusion.com/ctxtad/* http://scripts.chitika.net/*.js

On the other hand, O'Reilly explains that this advertising supports the site, so if you can tolerate it, maybe you should just put up with it.

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