The particular webspaces listed here were selected so as to provide ASC members and visitors with a tractable number of individual sites affording the maximum coverage (including the maximum forward links) to the subject matter.

It remains the largest and most active discussion forum specifically dedicated to cybernetics and related topics. It is a 'Listserv' - i.e., all transactions and traffic are conducted via email.

To join this listserve, send an email to listserv@hermes.circ.gwu.edu with the message "sub cybcom YOURNAME".

An archive of prior list messages can be found at:

There are a number of these newsgroups dedicated to cybernetics or closely related subjects. In addition, there are a few newsgroups within which discussion of cybernetics and systemics are relatively common.

The most relevant USENET newsgroups are listed below, hot-linked to afford you direct access via Google Groups:

• sci.systems (systems)
   
  
• alt.cyb-sys (cybernetics and systems topics)
   
  
• alt.info-theory (information theory)
   
  
• bionet.info-theory (information theory in a biological context)
   
  
• alt.control-theory (cybernetics of control mechanisms)
   
  
• comp.ai.alife (computational theory of 'artificial life')
   
  
• comp.ai.genetic (computational theory and practice in genetic algorithms and evolutionary computation)
   
  
• comp.theory.cell-automata (computational theory of cellular automata)
   
  
• comp.theory.dynamic-sys (computational theory of dynamic systems)
   
  
• sci.engr.control (control systems engineering topics)
   
  
• sci.fractals (fractals and self-similar systems)
   
  
• sci.nonlinear (nonlinear phenomena, complexity, chaos theory)

Some of the Yahoo Groups are dedicated to cybernetics or closely related subjects - particularly those groups of the venerable DialogNet network which have been migrated to Yahoo Groups.

The most relevant Yahoo Groups are listed below, hot-linked to afford you direct access: