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, the to.* hierarchy was used with UUCP to send special # control messages to a particular peer. This usage is very obsolete, # but the hierarchy is still special-cased in some news software and # should not be used. #
Historic notes:
# A pseudo-hierarchy normally used for the propagation of ihave/sendme # control messages and test messages. For example, SiteA and SiteB might # each have a to.sitea and to.siteb on their machines to facilitate a # special kind of news transport mechanism.
INN's control.ctl entry:
checkgroups:*:to.*:drop newgroup:*:to.*:drop rmgroup:*:to.*:drop
to any c nq to any n nq to any r nq
checkgroups:*:to.*:drop newgroup:*:to.*:drop rmgroup:*:to.*: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.