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Hierarchy HOUSTON

• Description: Houston, Texas, USA
• Status: pgpmanaged
• No contact information provided
• Administrative group: houston.usenet.config
• No URL provided
• Key User ID: houston.usenet.config
• No key URL provided
• No key fingerprint provided

• Key:

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  Version: 2.6.2
  
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  T/IKeBUewDz0TP8EdutnJoH/he60AAlx+qgi2HWVkF7F+5n1wsnKs//xgmdYjVAT
  gLzHNH4bYym/LnznlcdnxxokonAbndO4iY53l2AY+d2CJroJwFDtUyJYrHZpAAUR
  tBVob3VzdG9uLnVzZW5ldC5jb25maWeJAJUDBRAzZPg8UO1TIlisdmkBARMBA/9L
  GuYMTT5gOpxn0ZwaKULBaQxDB+LsXg1+LxXb3DneDSHDTSMYSmfU2LnjuUm/e+Z2
  nVBjRqcjX2U+zk6UQ6mvdevFfSakRYGLJ5XSb32lDGoQUw09AH8H/GlaPuXaauEG
  18SR4tLjTawRB1sKe2J6gY5WH72XuOwDKEN5hAgZSw==
  =x1Ic
  -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
  

• INN's control.ctl entry:

  newgroup:*:houston.*:drop
  rmgroup:*:houston.*:drop
  checkgroups:news@academ.com:houston.*:verify-houston.usenet.config
  newgroup:news@academ.com:houston.*:verify-houston.usenet.config
  rmgroup:news@academ.com:houston.*:verify-houston.usenet.config
  

  Click to see C News' controlperm entry

  houston any n nq
  houston any r nq
  houston news@academ.com c pv houston.usenet.config
  houston news@academ.com n pv houston.usenet.config
  houston news@academ.com r pv houston.usenet.config
  

  Click to see DNews' control.conf entry

  newgroup:*:houston.*:drop
  rmgroup:*:houston.*:drop
  checkgroups:news@academ.com:houston.*:doit,pgp
  newgroup:news@academ.com:houston.*:doit,pgp
  rmgroup:news@academ.com:houston.*:doit,pgp
  

   

• Actions since May 2003: none

• Newsgroups: [check raw logs if your checkgroups differs from the one below]

  houston.eats		Dining in Houston, Texas.
  houston.efh.talk	Electronic Frontiers of Houston Discussions.
  houston.forsale		Items for sale in Houston, Texas.
  houston.general		Items of general interest in Houston, Texas.
  houston.internet.providers	No description.
  houston.jobs.offered	Jobs available in Houston, Texas.
  houston.jobs.wanted	People wanting jobs in Houston, Texas.
  houston.music		Musical happenings and discussions in Houston, Texas.
  houston.personals	How to meet someone in Houston, Texas.
  houston.politics	Politics in Houston, Texas.
  houston.singles		Discussions of singles activities in Houston, Texas.
  houston.sports		Sports discussions in Houston, Texas.
  houston.usenet.config	Usenet in Houston, Texas.
  houston.usenet.stats	Usenet statistics in Houston, Texas.
  houston.usenet.test	Testing Usenet postings in Houston, Texas.
  houston.wanted		Things wanted in Houston, Texas.
  houston.weather		Houston weather forcasts. (Moderated)
  

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You can display information about up to 30 hierarchies in the row by loading a web page of the form:
http://usenet.trigofacile.com/hierarchies/comp,humanities,misc,news,rec,sci,soc,talk.html (example for the Big 8).

Information in these pages comes from INN's control.ctl, ftp.isc.org newsgroups file, the list of PGP public keys for newsgroup administration and the logs of control messages.
Those external data are used to generate this web site. To report an issue about the generation, please use the issue tracker on GitHub or post to news.admin.hierarchies.
You might also want to read the Usenet hierarchy administration FAQ.