If you know a hierarchy which is not listed in these pages or if you have more up-to-date information about an existing hierarchy, please send a mail to usenet-config@isc.org or post to news.admin.hierarchies so that these pages can be updated.
A text-only version of that page can also be retrieved for a control access file, PGP keys and a checkgroups. Full files are also available.
INN's control.ctl entry: [C News or DNews also available]
newgroup:*:wa.*:drop
rmgroup:*:wa.*:drop
checkgroups:ausadmin@aus.news-admin.org:wa.*:verify-ausadmin@aus.news-admin.org
newgroup:ausadmin@aus.news-admin.org:wa.*:verify-ausadmin@aus.news-admin.org
rmgroup:ausadmin@aus.news-admin.org:wa.*:verify-ausadmin@aus.news-admin.org
Actions since a year: none [see more actions]
Newsgroups: [check raw logs if your checkgroups differs from the one below]
wa.ads.commercial Commercial Advertisements. wa.ads.forsale Items For Sale (no commercial advertisements). wa.general For general discussion. wa.help Help! wa.ieee Discussion about the IEEE. wa.motorcycles Discussion of motorcycles and motorcycling. wa.multimedia Multimedia tools and technologies wa.netstatus Network outage reports, and so on. wa.newusers New USENET users come here for assistance. wa.plug Perth Linux User Group. wa.politics Politics, debates, rational(?) arguments. wa.seminar For announcements of educational events in Western Australia wa.test For test messages. wa.waia Western Australian Internet Association wa.waug Australian Unix and Open Systems Users Group WA Chapter
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/index.py?see=COMP,HUMANITIES,MISC,NEWS,REC,SCI,SOC,TALK (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.
You might also want to read the Usenet hierarchy administration FAQ.