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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 help serve as a guide for news 
admins who are configuring their own sites, and it may help users at other 
sites to know which groups might not be on their machines but which might be 
available to them. 


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.forsale	Buy, sell and swap items in the DC area
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.

II. NEWSGROUP TRAFFIC - as of 1pm EDT, 9/20/94
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		 new articles 	     last period	   %
 Name		since (8/23/94)	  (7/26/94 - 8/23/94)	change
--------	--------------	  -----------------	-------
dc.test		 	102		117		-  12.8
dc.general	       1348	       1411		-   4.5
dc.dining		406		563		-  27.9
dc.smithsonian	  	 55		 17		+ 223.5
dc.forsale	       1295	       1342		-   3.5
dc.housing	 	120		124		-   3.2
dc.redskins	 	 88		 30		+ 193.3
dc.driving	 	183		222		-  17.6
dc.jobs			376		437		-  14.0
dc.biking		234		286		-  18.2
dc.music	 	 59		111		-  46.9
dc.config	 	  2		 76		-  97.4
dc.romance	 	376		230		+  63.5
dc.org.linux-users       67		 19		+ 252.6

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

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 Superseded by 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 Superseded by 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.politics	Just showed up one day. No discussion or control message,
		little traffic
dc.graphics.avs	defunct group; use comp.graphics.avs
dc.linux	Prematurely created with incorrect name; use
		dc.org.linux-users
-- 
Spoken: Pete Cottrell 	UUCP: ames!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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