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Hierarchy UN

• Description: The United Nations
• Status: historic
• No contact information provided
• Administrative group: un.public.usenet.admin
• No URL provided
• Key User ID: ungroups@news.itu.int
• No key URL provided
• No key fingerprint provided

• Key:

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• Comments:

  #
  # This hierarchy is not entirely defunct, but it receives very little
  # traffic and is included primarily for the sake of completeness.
  #
  

• INN's control.ctl entry: [C News or DNews also available]

  newgroup:*:un.*:drop
  rmgroup:*:un.*:drop
  checkgroups:news@news.itu.int:un.*:verify-ungroups@news.itu.int
  newgroup:news@news.itu.int:un.*:verify-ungroups@news.itu.int
  rmgroup:news@news.itu.int:un.*:verify-ungroups@news.itu.int
  

• Actions since a year: none [see more actions]
   

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

  un.public.dha.reliefweb	Humanitarian Relief Community Updates (Moderated)
  un.public.itu.announce	International Telecommunication Union Announcements (Moderated)
  un.public.itu.telecom.cyberforum	ITU TELECOM Interactive 97 Cyberforum (Moderated)
  

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