The main SGI newsgroups are in the comp.sys.sgi hierarchy:

• SGI/IRIX administration: comp.sys.sgi.admin

• SGI hardware discussions: comp.sys.sgi.hardware

• SGI/IRIX applications: comp.sys.sgi.apps

• Graphics issues: comp.sys.sgi.graphics

• Miscellaneous SGI chat/flamewars: comp.sys.sgi.misc

• Buy some SGI kit: comp.sys.sgi.marketplace

Some SGI related groups that may be of interest:

• MIPS discussions: comp.sys.mips

• Generic computer graphics discussions: comp.graphics

• The comp.unix heirarchy: comp.unix

• Zmail and friends: comp.mail.zmail

• The X heirarchy can sometimes be helpful, too: comp.windows.x

Archives of comp.sys.sgi can be found here:

• ftp://ftp.sgi.com/comp.sys.sgi/

• http://hornet.mmg.uci.edu/~hjm/projects/sgi.wais.html - currently appears to be dead :-(

Archives of comp.sys.mips can also be found at these sites:

• ftp://ftp.sgi.com/comp.sys.mips/