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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.

	NEW GROUPS SINCE THE LAST PERIODIC POSTING (9/20)

dc.politics	Discussion of politicians and political issues in the DC area

II. NEWSGROUP TRAFFIC - as of 5pm EDT, 10/18/94
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		 new articles 	     last period	   %
 Name		since (9/20/94)	  (8/23/94 - 9/20/94)	change
--------	--------------	  -----------------	-------
dc.test		 	 85		102		-  16.7
dc.general	       1208	       1348		-  10.4
dc.dining		250		406		-  38.4
dc.smithsonian	  	 17		 55		-  69.1
dc.forsale	       1227	       1295		-   5.3
dc.housing	 	100		120		-  16.7
dc.redskins	 	 86		 88		-   2.3
dc.driving	 	114		183		-  27.7
dc.jobs			419		376		+  11.4
dc.biking		248		234		+   6.0
dc.music	 	 96		 59		+  62.7
dc.config	 	 12		  2		+ 500.0
dc.romance	 	133		376		-  64.6
dc.org.linux-users       27		 67		-  59.7
dc.politics		154*		 ---		   ----

(*) traffic from 10/13/94 thru 10/18/94

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.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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