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	This is a list of the dc hierarchy newsgroups that the University of 
Maryland Department of Computer Science carries; it also lists the traffic 
seen locally for each of the groups.
	This is by no means an attempt at creating an "official" list of 
groups in the dc hierarchy; it is provided for purely informational purposes. 
This is what one site carries and propagates. It may serve as a guide for news 
admins who are configuring their own sites, and it may help users at other 
sites know which groups might not be on their machines but which might be 
available to them. 
	This information is also available by pointing your favorite web
browser to 

	http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/pete/dc_news.html

I. GROUPS AND DESCRIPTIONS
--------------------------
dc.test		Group for testing news
dc.general	Miscellaneous topics related to DC
dc.dining	Good eats around the DC area
dc.smithsonian	News about the Smithsonian Institution
dc.housing	Rent/buy/sell/seek housing in DC area
dc.redskins	Discussion about the Washington Redskins football team
dc.driving	Discussion of driving issues in DC area
dc.jobs		Jobs offered or wanted in the DC area
dc.biking	Discussion of biking issues in DC area
dc.music	Announce/discuss music events in DC
dc.config	Discuss creation/configuration of groups in dc hierarchy
dc.romance      Discussing/seeking romance in the DC area
dc.org.linux-users	DC area Linux users group announcements etc.
dc.politics	Discussion of politicians and political issues in the DC area
dc.forsale.misc		Buy, sell and swap non-computer items in the DC area
dc.forsale.computers	Buy, sell and swap computer items in the DC area
dc.media	Discussion of TV/Radio/Newspapers, etc. in DC area

II. NEWSGROUP TRAFFIC - This article traffic report is posted about every
---------------------	four weeks. I have listed the traffic for each group 
			for the last 4 4-week (approximate) periods, and have
			listed the newsgroups in order according to total
			volume of traffic.
							Total,
			9/20-	10/17-	11/14-	12/13-	9/20-	Previous
    Name		10/17	11/14	12/13	 1/10	1/10	Ranking
    --------	        ----  	----    -----   -----   -----	-------
 1. dc.jobs		2024	2654	2687	2198	9563	   1
 2. dc.general		1310	1453	1167	1141	5071	   3
 3. dc.forsale.misc**	1578	1377	1208	 857	5020	   2
 4. dc.politics		 425	1028	 753	 822	3028	   4
 5. dc.driving		 307	 410	1569	 568	2854	   5
 6. dc.forsale.computers 289	 490	 557	 553	1889	   6
 7. dc.dining		 248	 393	 376	 287	1304	   8
 8. dc.biking		 327	 286	 358	 250	1221	   7
 9. dc.romance		 216	 249	 301	 152	 918	   9
10. dc.music		 239	 216	 269	 170	 894	  10
11. dc.redskins		 202	 218	 167	  76	 663	  11
12. dc.housing		 153	 135	 136	 132	 556	  12
13. dc.test		  71	 105	 172	 107	 455	  13
14. dc.org.linux-users	  77	  75	  63	  86	 301	  14
15. dc.config		  31	  36	  34	  24	 125	  15
16. dc.smithsonian	   6	  27	  36	  34	 103	  16
17. dc.media		  25	  19	   7	  21	  72	  17

** - On our systems, dc.forsale is aliased to dc.forsale.misc, so this total
	includes postings to dc.forsale from sites which haven't made the
	split yet

III. NOTES
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	Groups not carried by the UMCP Department of Computer Science

dc.talk.guns	Created as a protest. Use talk.politics.guns
dc.ham-radio	Old group from the mid 80's, defunct. Superseded by 
		numerous other groups in the rec.radio and alt.radio
		hierarchies. 
dc.pc-users	Old group from the mid 80's, defunct. Superseded by 
		numerous other groups in the comp.sys.ibm.pc hierarchy
dc.info-mac	Old group from the mid 80's, defunct. Superseded by 
		numerous other groups in the comp.sys.mac hierarchy
dc.graphics.avs	defunct group; use comp.graphics.avs
dc.linux	Prematurely created with incorrect name; use
		dc.org.linux-users
dc.forsale	Obsolete; split into dc.forsale.misc and dc.forsale.computers
		on August 6th, 1995
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Spoken: Pete Cottrell 	UUCP: ????!mimsy!pete       INTERNET: pete@cs.umd.edu  
Phone: 301-405-2749	USPS: U of Maryland, CS Dept., College Park, Md 20742
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