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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.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

	NEW GROUPS SINCE THE LAST PERIODIC POSTING (7/31)

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

	OBSOLETED GROUPS SINCE THE LAST PERIODIC POSTING (7/31)

dc.forsale	Buy, sell and swap items in the 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,
			5/3-	5/30-	6/29-	7/26-	5/3-	Previous
    Name		5/30	6/29	7/26	8/24	7/26	Ranking
    --------	        ----  	----    -----   ----    -----	-------
 1. dc.forsale*		1681	1832	1751	 870	 6134	   1
 2. dc.jobs		1202	1524	1559	1842	 6127	   2
 3. dc.general		1040	1026	 907	1351	 4324	   3
 4. dc.biking		 313	 536	 380	 380	 1609	   5
 5. dc.dining		 284	 331	 347	 521	 1483	   6
 6. dc.romance		 222	 664	 303	 185	 1374	   4
 7. dc.politics		 320	 295	 247	 498	 1360	   7
 8. dc.forsale.misc**	   -	   -	   -	1246	 1246	   -
 9. dc.music		 282	 317	 217	 236	 1052	   8
10. dc.housing		 242	 208	 228	 299	  977	   9
11. dc.driving		 158	 332	 154	 268	  912	  10
12. dc.test		  64	 106	 110	  94	  374	  11
13. dc.org.linux-users	  45	  34	  89	  80	  248	  12
14. dc.redskins		  50	  21	  46	 125	  242	  13
15. dc.smithsonian	  22	  14	  52	   5	   93	  14
16. dc.config		   5	   0	   9	  56	   70	  15
17. dc.forsale.computers   -	   -	   -	  36	   36	   -
18. dc.media		   -	   -	   -	  14	   14	   -

* - dc.forsale was split into dc.forsale.misc and dc.forsale.computers on
	August 6th. The traffic listed is from 7/26 up through the split
	on the 6th.

** - 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
----------

	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
-- 
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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