The following information is a short guide to the various online resources used to effectively find travel information.
If you are new to the Internet, I highly recommend the free guides at Yahoo's Internet Directory.
Some of my other favorite places to start searches:
AJ.com
AltaVista
Yahoo
My favorite way to read newsgroups is to search for my subject of interest at Google Groups. It has archived most of the newsgroups on the net since 1994.