My favorite comunity is : flickerdown.com Slash a dot com is too big to read .I like to speak with 2-3 people not 1000 Another site i like is www.nvnews.net (click on forums) then www.theinquirer.net also the comp.os.vms and the ultimate machine for news is google : http://news.google.com/news/gntechnologyleftnav.html