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.ctl access file, PGP keys and a checkgroups. Full files are also available.
Comments:
# # Historically reserved for local groups and occasionally configured for # such groups in news software. It is not really a good idea for sites # to use this hierarchy for local groups, since they may occur on many # unconnected sites and may confuse news readers that read at multiple # sites. #
Historic notes:
# This name occurs at many sites for their own local hierarchies. # Distributing a hierarchy by this name off of a single server is a very # bad idea because of the high likelihood of leakage between the unrelated # groups of different sites.
INN's control.ctl entry:
checkgroups:*:local.*:drop newgroup:*:local.*:drop rmgroup:*:local.*:drop
local any c nq local any n nq local any r nq
checkgroups:*:local.*:drop newgroup:*:local.*:drop rmgroup:*:local.*:drop
Actions since May 2003: none
Newsgroups: none [check raw logs if your checkgroups differs from the one below]
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.