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I think he is saying that the amiga hierachy is as official as the alt
hierachy so just like the alt hierachy it doesn't exist. Therefore we
can't post to any of those Newsgroups and this conversation is a
figment of our imagination. Not that anyone can read them because no
ISP carries them. ISPs only carry officially sanctioned groups in the
following hierachies.

biz
comp
rec
misc
news
sci
soc
talk

Every group in these hierachies is overflowing with posts, because
they had a charter published in the news.news.announce  or
some such group.

I have found that most ISPs will carry any appropriate news group
requested by a customer. This means a high proprtion of groups from
the above list but also a good assortment of others.

Patrick Ford wrote

> Brad Rogers wrote:
> 
> > On 19-Jul-00 08:14:42, Patrick Ford wrote something about Re: Traffic to All,
> > 
> > Hello Patrick,
> > 
> > >Can you explain what is meant by "non-existent heirarchy" please?
> > 
> > Officially, the heirarchy `amiga.*' doesn't exist.  Thus, like `alt.*' news
> > servers aren't obliged to carry it.
>  
> Where is the official definition of the heirarchies? I thought Usenet was
> completely anarchic. What regulating bodies are there? What powers do they
> have? What powers do they exert? Is there any other recourse to complain
> about spam apart form complaining to ISPs of source?
> 
> And are you saying alt. groups are outside the official heirarchy?
> 
> Also I don't understand your reference to obligation to carry NGs. My news
> server carries only 18000, probably about a quarter of all that there
> are.  It appears that they have limited themselves to what they choose to
> carry.
> 

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Stephen Roberts