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Other Mensa Groups and Resources

Mensa U.S.

    American Mensa
    Charlotte/Blue Ridge Mensa
    Chicago Area Mensa
    Delaware Mensa
    Delaware Valley (Philadelphia, south Jersey, and northern Delaware)
    Mensa 76 (Fort Worth, Texas)
    Indianapolis
    Central Iowa Mensa
    South Georgia Mensa
    Kentuckiana Mensa
    Central Kentucky
    Lonestar Mensa
    Northern Louisiana Mensa
    Northern Louisiana
    Missouri Ozarks Mensa
    Southern Nevada
    Western New York Mensa
    Oregon Mensa
    Western Pennsylvania Mensa
    Greater Phoenix Mensa
    Rhode Island Mensa
    St. Louis Area Mensa
    San Francisco
    Tampa Bay Mensa
    Utah
    Wisconsin
    Mensa of Wisconsin

    Mensa International

    We need some help identifying some of these languages. Your input, please!

    Miscellaneous Resources, Mostly Unofficial

    rec.org.mensa

    USENET newsgroup: Mensans and hangers-on engage in (alleged) conversation in ROM, an unmoderated newsgroup. Lots of profanity, silliness, pointed weirdness—almost like being at a Mensa party. Prepare to be amused; prepare to be appalled; prepare to be offended. You need a newsgroup reader like Free Agent to access ROM.

    M-Talk

    Mailing list: M-Talk is a kinder, gentler alternative to ROM. "M-Talk is a place where members of Mensa can congregate on line to discuss the Mensa organization, and topics that Mensans generally tend to talk about whenever they congregate." To subscribe to the list, send email to M-Talk-request@lists.best.com. The message should contain one word; either subscribe or subsingle. (This is case sensitive.) subscribe will get you a digest version, and subsingle will get you individual messages. Note that subscribing to the list will send your e-mail address to everyone else on the list. M-Talk is hosted by Michelle Steiner <steiner@best.com>.

    Mensa Matters: Interloc Column

    Barbara K. Ploegstra of St. Louis Area Mensa keeps an e-mail list of Mensans who would like to contribute to her monthly Interloc column, "Mensa Matters." About once a month she sends out a question or issue for contributors to comment on and possibly be quoted on in her article. If you would like to be on the list, send her a note at 72774.3462@compuserve.com.

    Interloc is a Mensa publication for local officers and any other interested parties. It's free to Mensans. To subscribe, send your current mailing address and Mensa membership number with your request to the National Office at 70107.2242@compuserve.com.

    IRC #Mensa

    If you want to engage in on-line conversation, check out the MensaBOT and IRC #Mensa. IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is Internet's real time chat system. "What are we talking about in #MENSA? Well... anything... nothing... It depends also on you! Just join in and take part in our conversation, or if there is none going on then start your own. Now and then we have even some intelligent conversations . . . ." You'll need an IRC client like mIRC to join the conversation. For introductory information on IRC, click here.

    Compuserve

    The official Mensa forum is open only to those with Compuserve accounts. Type "GO MENSA" at any CIS prompt. There are several sections for conversations, and reportedly fifty megabytes of files for downloading.

    Circum-Mensa (The Round Table Club)

    Circum-Mensa is a startup discussion group designed by Douglas G. Gannon and intended as an alternative to rec.org.mensa.

    Regimental Chess Web Site

    The keepers of Regimental Chess ("a military strategy game for the brutal intellect") maintain a Web site with more than 500 links to various Mensa groups and members. It's not an official Mensa site, and some Mensans have expressed displeasure over the unauthorized use of our group's name and unauthorized links to their own precious Web sites. Your Webmaster sees nothing wrong with or even controversial about the Mensa-related references here.

    Regimental Chess takes chess pieces and gathers them into larger armies. Players can maneuver and capture in military formations. Strategies and tactics include blitzkrieg, infantry charges, integration of forces, counteroffensives, flanking maneuvers, broadside captures, etc. Moreover, the game can be played on a single board, or on multiple boards pitting multiple divisions against one another. The Regimental Chess Web site has over 100 pages analyzing various aspects of the game.

    It's a bit disorganized and scattershot (which of course endears it to us). We don't know if the apparent author, Thomas B. Bacon, is in any way affiliated with Mensa and, despite the hubbub about this site in Mensa's corner of cyberspace, we don't much care.

    Background and Ongoing Information

    Sander Rubin on Mensa history and politics: articles, election results, page links, a Mensa test, etc.

    Golden Anniversary Celebration

    Mensa's Golden Anniversary: Mensa's 50th Anniversary, celebrated in London in August 1996. Outdated material but still available.

    MFGC

    Mensa Foundation for Gifted Children in the United Kingdom.

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