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SPECIAL HIERARCHY NOTES
This page is intended to be updated when someone shares valuable
information to add, either by posting suggestions of additions
to the news.admin.hierarchies newsgroup, or by opening an issue at
<https://github.com/Julien-Elie/usenet-hierarchies/issues>. This page is
otherwise no longer being actively updated by anyone as currently no one has
the time to follow the state of each hierarchy. It contains information
about the handling of particular hierarchies. To aid in searching for a
particular entry, all top-level names are flush left with ".*" appended.
Most of these notes were written by tale when he was maintaining the control
message archive and active newsgroup database. The last comprehensive
work on maintaining it probably stopped somewhat earlier. Most of the
information here dates from the 1990s.
Russ Allbery have sometimes added a few additional notes since, when he chose
not to add a hierarchy to the public list for some reason. A few Usenet
folks have also contributed to additional details for a few hierarchies.
The hierarchies listed in the current
<em>control.ctl</em> file and the old Master List of Newsgroup Hierarchies
<https://web.archive.org/web/20160407174854/http://pfx.ca/mlnh/mlnhtables.html>
have been combined into
<https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Julien-Elie/usenet-hierarchies/main/nas/data/hierarchies/Description>.
=== Miscellaneous notes =====================================================
In the following notes about various hierarchies, "It should be removed,"
is shorthand for, "It should be removed from your local list of active
groups unless you have some special need for having it, such as a private
local hierarchy by the same name."
acay.*
Appears to be a private hierarchy for an Australian ISP. See
<http://www.acay.com.au/member.htm>.
alive.*
It is not clear to tale what the status of this hierarchy is. His latest
messages to Sander van Minnen <mattew@pobox.org.sg> (or
<mattew@hacktic.nl>) asking for more information regarding what the
hierarchy is about and what its current groups are, were not answered.
It is, however, listed in the ISC active file based on the list of
groups he got in January 1997, and a half-dozen newgroup messages since
then.
Lately, the USENET Config Files FAQ's version of control.ctl says that this
hierarchy is defunct and people should contact <thijs@kink.xs4all.nl> or
<mattew@xs4all.nl> for more information. It should be removed.
alot.*
Misspelled "alt.ziopino" as "alot.ziopino" in a forged newgroup on 5 Aug
1998. It should be removed.
america.*
Forged newgroup for "america.sucks.scotland.rules.we.made.tv" on 13 Sep
1998. It should be removed.
apc.*
13 Collabra newgroups in Summer of 1998. It should be removed.
au.*
This Collabra newgroup was apparently a typo for aus.ads.jobs by
<joe_wright@compuware.com> on 10 Jul 1998.
bes.*
A semi-public hierarchy for discussion of the Beijing Spectrometer,
originally coordinated at Stanford University. The hierarchy went idle
and was declared defunct in September of 2009. It should be removed.
betanews.*
Tests from Microsoft were escaping around the world. It should be
removed.
bit.*
Gatewayed mailing-lists originating from BITNET (IBM mainframe).
blackbox.*
Newgroup for blackbox.doof, apparently a joke, sent worldwide on 25 Jan
1998. There *may* be a legitimate blackbox.* hierarchy (the control
message was posted to blackbox.test) but tale have seen no other references
to it. Cf. at.blackbox.*.
bofh.*
The Bastard Operator From Hell hierarchy. Feeds of it are restricted to
those who can figure out how to get a feed.
bugtraq.*
Forged newgroup on 29 Dec 1999, apparently without any support of the
Bugtraq administrators.
clari.*
Commercial ClariNet news service which used to deliver traditional
newspaper and magazine content using newsgroups.
cny.*
A newgroup was sent for cny.general, for the Central New York State
region, by Will Pierce <willp@dreamscape.com> in May 1998. In January
2000, Mr. Pierce reported to tale that the only group that existed in the
hierarchy was cny.general, but it did not propagate very far and
received an insignificant amount of traffic. It should be removed.
courts.*
United States court decisions.
cronkite.*
Joke newgroup for cronkite.misc, "Miscellaneous discussion of Walter
Cronkite" by <bedwarm@cycperspace.org> (Bobby Tendinitis) in April 1998.
earth.*
Newgroup for earth.crisis "Discussion of crises on Earth" by Bobby
Tendinitis <bedwarm@mail.dotcom.fr> on 21 Oct 1997 without any
discussion, support, followup, or other groups in hierarchy.
fa.*
This hierarchy is defunct since the late 1980s. It stood for "from
ARPAnet" to reflect that it was for messages gatewayed from ARPAnet
mailing lists into newsgroups. It should be removed.
foad.*
Newgroup for foad.rant by <abby@foad.org> on 2 Dec 1997; see
<ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/control/foad/foad.rant>. The hierarchy was
apparently stillborn.
fr2.*
This appears to have been some sort of protest against the policies or
personalities of fr.*. There were three newgroups in July of 1998 and
nothing seems to have come of them.
france.*
Regional newsgroups in France. This hierarchy is mostly abandoned. The
names of the regions are still the ones before their renaming in 2016.
god.*
Apparently an attempt to create alt.god.jesus and
alt.god.jesus.holyghost that failed to include the "alt.*" part (the
bodies of the messages use the alt prefix), two newgroups were sent in
August 1999 and were quickly followed by a half-dozen joke newgroups.
It should be removed.
hacktic.*
Dutch/English hackers' newsgroups in Netherlands.
ibm.*
Originally for internal use by IBM Corporation (ibm.com) only. The
ibm.software.* hierarchy was available via news.software.ibm.com for a
while, but was then closed by IBM on 2009-12-31. The ibm.software.*
portion of the hierarchy was redistributed to other servers and may
still have usage outside of the original IBM source. It is unknown if
ibm.* outside of ibm.software.* is still in use inside IBM. ibm.* groups
other than ibm.software.* should be removed.
jessica.*
Newgroup for jessica.config on 5 Nov 1997 by <uhclem@usit.net>, apparently
as some sort of joke.
local.*
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.
microsoft.*
Microsoft does not maintain their hierarchy via Usenet control messages.
tale used to receive a list of changes to make every week directly from
Microsoft via email.
mod.*
In the mid-1980s, this was how all moderated newsgroups were identified.
The mod.* hierarchy was removed in the Great Renaming in 1986 when
support for moderated groups by any name was incorporated into B News.
Some people have considered restarting the concept of this hierarchy
(which tale personally thinks it is a bad idea), but as yet it has not been
done.
muenster.*
A regional hierarchy for the city of Muenster in Germany. The original
contact, Lars von Olleschik <lars@von-olleschik.de>, is no longer
involved in running the hierarchy. The organization buene.org may
still be involved.
nc.*
This hierarchy is in use as a regional hierarchy for North Carolina but
has no active maintainer. Tim Seaver used to manage the hierarchy but
said around 2002 that he'd had no dealings with it in over two years and
the hierarchy is basically "open to anyone who wants it".
net.*
This hierarchy is only meant to be carried by sites that live by a
strict set of rules meant to keep down abuse of Usenet and improve the
overall quality of groups. See <http://www.usenet2.org/> for more
information about this hierarchy.
openprojects.*
Robert Dinse <nanook@eskimo.com>, who responded to tale's message sent to
<news@eskimo.com> (the sender of the newgroup for openprojects.linpeople),
says, "I am trying to find out who did this; it looks to me like someone
forged a control message. 'eskimo.com' is not a news server; it's our
shell server. Normally, when we create groups, we would have used
ctlinnd on the news server and 'eskimo.com' would not have shown up in
the path."
pubnet.*
This hierarchy used to carry groups about publically available Unix
systems, but fell into disuse. It was formally removed for lack of
traffic in the summer of 1991. it should be removed.
sdnet.*
This hierarchy is for discussion of and within the Greater San Diego
Area, California, USA. It was formerly maintained by William Kronert,
but he stepped down as hierarchy maintainer and no one else
volunteered. It is therefore now frozen, but the existing groups are
still in use.
sk.*
Two different hierarchies co-exist in the same namespace: Slovakian
newsgroups, and regional Saskatchewan (Canada) newsgroups.
slac.*
This hierarchy was for discussion of the Stanford Linear Accelerator
Center. It was a local hierarchy that was distributed to various
partner sites and hence became semi-public. After a long period of
declining usage, it was shut down by SLAC in September 2009. It should
be removed.
stardivision.*
This hierarchy was for the company that made the StarOffice business
suite software. It was renamed to staroffice.* in September 1999, and
the old stardivision.* hierarchy should be removed.
t-netz.*
This was a German language hierarchy for gatewayed email lists something
akin to alt.* in that anyone could create newsgroups in it. The
hierarchy is now defunct, having been moved to z-netz.alt.* in a
reorganization in 1996. Contact <lutz@jena.thur.de> (Lutz Donnerhacke)
and/or <dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org> (Dirk Meyer) for more information. See
also zer.* in this file. It should be removed.
to.*
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.
um.*
This hierarchy was used for internal groups at the University of
Maryland. Their internal news server was shut down on 22 Dec 2008 and
rmgroups were issued for all groups in this hierarchy. It should be
removed.
vmsnet.*
Originating from Digital VAX network.
www.*
Apparently someone who thought a newsgroup name and domain name should
be equivalent. Newgroup for <www.wilhelp.com> on 7 Jul 1998.
zer.*
This was a German language hierarchy for gatewayed email lists like
t-netz.*, but was somewhat more structured regarding creation of groups
within it. There was a bit of a problem with gateways directing the
same articles to both the zer.* hierarchy and the z-netz.* hierarchy,
with the resulting Message-ID collisions causing a mess with
propagation. The hierarchy is now defunct, having been moved to
z-netz.* in a reorganization in 1996. Contact <lutz@jena.thur.de> (Lutz
Donnerhacke) and/or <dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org> (Dirk Meyer) for more
information. See also t-netz.* notes. It should be removed.
zipnews.*
This appears to have been a discussion hierarchy for Zippo's news
service, a now-defunct organization. It was declared obsolete in a list
of hierarchies posted in January 2000 and there has been no subsequent
information about it. It should be removed.
=== Private hierarchies =====================================================
The following is a list of hierarchies known to be private hierarchies;
that is, the administrators in charge of them have specifically requested
that they do not wish the hierarchy to appear in the ISC list, and often
don't want it to appear anywhere except their own servers.
alab.*
This hierarchy is for a department at the National Chiao Tung University
in Hsinchu, Taiwan. Contact <pcyu@alab.ee.nctu.edu.tw> (Pang-Cheng Yu)
for more information.
apana.*
Private hierarchy for the Australian Public Access Network Association.
Contact "Garry R. Ford" <garry@merddyn.apana.org.au> or Dean Hollister
<dean@odyssey.apana.org.au> for more information.
backbone.*
This hierarchy is for internal use only by ruhr.de. Contact
<admin@ruhr.de> for more information.
balcab.*
Private for the Basel, Switzerland, ISP named Balcab. Contact Matthias
Leisi <leisi@gmx.ch> for more information.
best.*
For Best Internet Communications (best.net) use only. Contact
<news@best.net> for more information.
birk.*
Private. Newgroups were leaked from hastur.rlyeh.net and
starcat.rlyeh.net, two of the peers in the birk.* hierarchy. Contact
<birk-admin@ping.uio.no> (Jan Ingvoldstad) for more information.
borland.*
On 31 May 1998, Chris Malatesta <cmalatesta@borland.com> responded to
tale's inquiry about leaked Collabra newgroups for borland.public.* groups
with the statement "We do not feed our news server... So I'm confused
how you received this...". tale explained about how to read Path header
fields, and then asked, "Do I correctly infer from your reply that you do
not wish the Borland groups to be available outside of your own server?"
Having received no further reply from him, it is tale's assumption that
it is intended to be a hierarchy only local to their own news server.
You can access the Borland newsgroups via the forums.inprise.com news
server, or through <http://www.borland.com/newsgroups/>.
cais.*
For Capital Area Internet Service (cais.com) use only. Contact
<news@cais.com> for more information.
cd-online.*
For Worldonline, Inc (worldonline.nl) use only. Contact
<newsmaster@worldonline.nl> for more information.
central.*
For use by The Internet Company of New Zealand only. Contact
<usenet@iconz.co.nz> for more information.
chaven.*
For internal use only by Celestial Haven ISP. Contact <news@chaven.com>
for more information.
chello.*
On 15 Jan 2000, <ralf@IAEhv.nl> (Ralf van Dooren) sent a newgroup for
chello.nl.test.test worldwide. It seemed fairly obvious that it was a
bogus newgroup not sanctioned by Chello Netherlands admins, but
nonetheless tale took the opportunity to enquire of the folks at Chello
Netherlands whether the chello.* hierarchy existed as either a private
or public hierarchy. To his surprise, Mr. van Dooren replied that he was
an employee of Chello at their "abusedesk", and had been investigating
some problems with chello.* groups disappearing on their servers. He
said that to his knowledge, chello.* is not intended to be carried
outside the chello-network.
cix.*
Four newgroups in July 1998 all had Distribution local header fields that
were (obviously) ineffective. All were posted via kerberos.demon.co.uk
and had message-ids naming cix.compulink.co.uk. They did not have valid
From header fields, though. In May 2001, Sean Purdy <newsmaster@cix.co.uk>
reported to tale that the hierarchy is private to cix.co.uk.
cl.*
For internal use only by CL-Netz. Contact <koordination@cl-netz.de> for
more information.
cmi.*
For internal use only at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
per mail from Bruce Gletty, CCSO news manager @uiuc.edu, July 1998.
Later informed by <foertsch@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> that, "any 'cmi' group is
owned by prairienet and they need to bless any distribution beyond
campus/local ISPs".
cmu.*
For Carnegie-Mellon University use only, per Dan Lovinger
<del+@cmu.edu>, CMU Computing Services, August 1994.
csie.*
Two Collabra newgroups. Curiously, they were from very different
domains but with very similar names: csie.bbs.fj and csie.bbs.fj.rec.
Much later, on 24 Feb 2000, <jkng@csie.nctu.edu.tw> (NortonNg) sent six
newgroups for groups in the hierarchy, and he later reported to tale that
it was a mistake and he corrected the configuration.
cuhk.*
In September of 1998, 22 Usenet newgroup control messages were sent
around the world for groups in the cuhk.* hierarchy by a half-dozen
different people in the Engineering Faculty CUHK at cuhk.edu.hk (Hong
Kong). Alan S. H. Lam <shlam@ie.cuhk.edu.hk> reported to tale that it was
accidental and the hierarchy is private.
deja.*
In May 1999, <group-admin@deja.com> sent at least 40 newgroup messages
around the world that all bore the note, "[...] this is being created
for internal use by Deja.com Inc. If you have mistakenly received this
control message, please contact <group-admin@deja.com> immediately. And
please accept our apologies." Apology accepted.
dejanews.*
In February and May 1999, <group-admin@deja.com> sent 6 newgroup
messages like those described in deja.* -- internal use, mistake for others
to get, apologies, yadda yadda.
duke.*
For use by Duke University only. Contact <news@newsgate.duke.edu> for more
information.
earthlink.*
For internal use by the EarthLink ISP only.
fh-hannover.*
Local to shalom.cid-net.de. Contact <news@shalom.cid-net.de> or Daniel
Joehrens <news@linux.rz.fh-hannover.de> for more information.
fur.*
For Furrynet use only. Contact <fur-config@taronga.com> for more
information.
ibmnet.*
For internal use by IBM Corporation (ibm.net) only. Contact
<news@ibm.net> for more information.
inprise.*
For Borland's Enterprise products. You can access the inprise.*
newsgroups via the forums.inprise.com news server, or through
<http://www.borland.com/newsgroups/>.
iconz.*
For the Internet Company of New Zealand. Contact <usenet@iconz.co.nz> for
more information.
krst.*
Local hierarchy for the Committee for Clean Monitors in the Terminal
Rooms (yes, that's what tale was told), University of Oslo, Norway. Feeds
are restricted. Contact Jan Ingvoldstad <jani@ifi.uio.no> for more
information.
manawatu.*
For the Manawatu district of New Zealand. Contact <news@manawatu.gen.nz>
for more information. Alan Brown, involved in Manawatu Internet Services
whose UUCP hub address was manawatu.gen.nz, mailed tale on 5 Feb 1993:
"... it's unlikely that you'll ever see any traffic on it - the New Zealand
net administration prefers that we don't feed regional distributions through
it, and so all manawatu.* groups are blocked from being fed to the net at
the manawatu hub."
mcom.*
For Netscape Communications Corp. Contact <bpolk@netscape.com> (Ben Polk)
for more information.
metropolis.*
For use by Worldonline, Inc (worldonline.nl) only. Contact
<newsmaster@worldonline.nl> for more information.
ncf.*
For the National Capital Freenet in Ottawa, Canada. Contact
<news@freenet.carleton.ca> for more information.
netins.*
For use by netINS, Inc, only. Contact <kevin@netins.net> (Kevin Houle)
for more information.
optonline.*
For use by Optimum Online only. Matthew Sachs <matthewg@zevils.com>
sent a worldwide newgroup for optonline.discuss that he had thought was
limited with a local distribution, but it had not been.
planet.*
Used by both the PlaNet FreeNZ Cooperative in New Zealand and Planet
Systems Inc in Tennessee, USA. Contact <office@pl.net> or
<news@news.planetc.com> for more information.
powersoft.*
For use through Sybase's news server only. Configure your news reader
to use forums.powersoft.com as an NNTP server, or access the groups via
<http://support.sybase.com/newsgroups/>.
prima.*
For Prima e.V. in Germany. Contact <admin@prima.ruhr.de> for more
information.
psu.*
For internal use only by the Penn State University in the USA. Contact
<barr@math.psu.edu> (Dave Barr) for more information.
rpi.*
For Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. This hierarchy used
to be publically available until 1994. Contact <usenet@rpi.edu> for more
information.
sybase.*
For use through Sybase's news server only. Configure your news reader
to use forums.sybase.com as an NNTP server, or access the groups via
<http://support.sybase.com/newsgroups/>.
tele.*
For Tele Danmark Erhverv (Tele Denmark Internet, tele.dk or tdk.net).
Contact <usenet@tdk.net> for more information.
termvakt.*
Local hierarchy for technical support personnel at the Department for
Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway. Feeds are restricted. Contact
Jan Ingvoldstad <jani@ifi.uio.no> for more information.
uva.*
For the University of Virginia, USA. Contact <usenet@virginia.edu>.
worldonline.*
For use by Worldonline, Inc (worldonline.nl) only. Contact
<newsmaster@worldonline.nl> for more information. As of 1 Oct 1996,
Lennard voor den Dag at worldonline told me, "The hierarchy is available
on news.worldonline.nl:119, but is not really interesting for the
outside world, and in Dutch only".
=== Probable accidental leakage =============================================
The following is a list of hierarchies that had a newgroup or checkgroups
message sent worldwide from them; tale sent the person who issued the
control message a query regarding the hierarchy's availability, but
received no reply. Therefore tale considered the control message to have
been an accidental leakage by someone who didn't really understand what was
going on, and the hierarchy is not listed here. There are _many_ _many_
hierarchies that fit into this category, but tale have not had time to go
through all his email folders identifying them all to add here. There's
also a whole slew of hierarchies that only had Collabra newgroups that he
gave up even sending a message to the originator, because he pretty much
never received replies from Collabra admins.
The presence of a name in this list generally means that someone,
somewhere is probably using the hierarchy name, but its current status is
not entirely clear.
agora.*
On four separate occasions (19 Feb 1998, 2 Jun 1998, 7 Jul 1998 and 6
Dec 1999), tale have sent email inquiring about worldwide newgroup messages
for this hierarchy. All but the first time went to <news@news.agora.it>,
which is the address on the control messages. The hierarchy is
apparently for "Agora - Internet Solution Provider".
ait.*
Message sent to <news@cs.ait.ac.th> regarding newgroup of ait.language on
17 July 1996.
amda.*
Message sent to <dounuts@amda.or.jp> (Hiroshi Sawada) regarding newgroup
of 7 amda.* groups for the Association of Medical Doctors of Asia in
March 1998.
archiworld.*
Message sent to <news@cna.archiworld.it> on 25 Jun 1998 and 7 Dec 1999
regarding eleven and 43 newgroups, respectively. Seems to be associated
with the non-responsive people who have been doing the agora.* groups.
att.*
Message sent to <newsadm@bgtnfc01-news.ops.worldnet.att.net> and
<newsadm@worldnett.att.net> regarding newgroup of att.tech-trial.onemail
on 15 Sep 1998. As this is the only att.* newgroup from an AT&T domain,
it appears that the hierarchy is private.
bathspa.*
Four Collabra newgroups from <postmaster@bathspa.ac.uk> in July, 1998.
cargill.*
The only worldwide newgroup for anything in this hierarchy was clearly a
test message, sent on 29 Jul 1998 by <jeff@cargill.com> for a group named
cargill.me; tale did not even bother asking whether this was meant to be a
worldwide group.
chuvashia.*
Two Collabra newgroups from the cap.ru domain in Autumn, 1997.
consulting.*
A Collabra newgroup from <rknowles_sysop@mhtonline.com> on 27 Dec 1997.
corel.*
Message sent to <drawtech@corel.ca> on 9 Dec 1997 regarding ten Collabra
newgroups. As usual, there was no reply, and seven more Collabra
newgroups from the same address were sent during the following week.
corelsupport.*
Message sent to <jimm@corel.ca> regarding his 28 Collabra messages of the
Spring and Summer, 1998.
cslab.*
A batch of newgroups in November 1998 and another in July 1999, both
sets from <network-admin@cslab.co.jp>, for a handful of groups intended
to be used by the organization "C's Lab, Ltd.".
cstech.*
A Collabra newgroup from <news@moe.cstech.fr> on 20 Nov 1997.
cygnus.*
A newgroup for cygnus.project.gdb.future was sent by <fche@cygnus.com> on
27 August 1998. This has been (to date) the only newgroup seen for a
hierarchy devoted to Cygnus Solutions.
dds.*
Message sent to <jeroen@mlc.nl> about Collabra newgroup.
discreet.*
A Collabra newgroup from <news@discreet.com> on 11 Sep 1997.
education.*
Two Collabra newgroups from <news@vulcan.pnl.gov> on 27 Jan 1998,
apparently for existing alt.* groups but missing the alt prefix.
ejb.*
A Collabra newgroup from <newsadmin@tsai.es> on 2 Oct 1997.
epm.*
A Collabra newgroup from <msantand@eeppm.com> on 2 Jan 1998.
forum_interne.*
Two Collabra newgroups from <postmaster@getima.mutuagri.tm.fr> on 21 Oct
1997.
glbs.*
13 Collabra newgroups from <newsadm@deere.com> in September, 1998.
gsm.*
Two Collabra newgroups for gsm.uae on 11 May 1999 by
<newsmaster@emirates.net.ae>.
hec.*
A Collabra newgroup from <eddy.beliveau@hec.ca> on 10 Oct 1997.
hphc.*
Three Collabra newgroups from <steve_toupin@hphc.org> in Winter, 1997-1998.
ifdef.*
Message sent to <news@sunburn.snds.com> regarding newgroup of six ifdef.*
groups on 7 May 1998. All were generated using Netscape Collabra.
Message bounced "User unknown".
installshield.*
This hierarchy was brough to tale's attention by someone who directed him
to <http://support.installshield.com/nwsgrps/default.asp>. The groups are
available on the news.installshield.com NNTP server, and on 8 Feb 2000,
tale asked the folks at installshield.com whether they should be listed in
the ISC's active file. No answer yet.
ils.*
13 Collabra newgroups from <news@coho.ils.nwu.edu> in autumn 1997.
islam.*
A Collabra newgroup from <newsmaster@emirates.net.ae> on 27 Oct 1998.
hkjc.*
Two Collabra newgroups by <news@cit.org.hk> on 20 Mar 1998.
kmc.*
Three Collabra newgroups from <ccchen@cc.kmc.edu.tw> and
<www@mail.rm.kmc.edu.tw> in Nov 1997.
libertymutual.*
Seven Collabra newgroups from <tjlanoie@infoserver.lmig.com> in February
and April, 1998.
list.*
Four Collabra newgroups from <news@corp.g2networks.com> on 20 Jul 1998.
lk-net.*
A Collabra newgroup, lk-net.test, from <t.vaquet@meier-edv.de> on 15 Jan
1998.
mortgageflex.*
A Collabra newgroup from <dwang@hsa.com> on 5 Mar 1998.
o-d-n.*
Newgroup by <tecias@cyberdude.com> (Tecias von Alcadious) (Organization:
Altavista personal user) on 12 Jul 1998 for o-d-n.misc.tmp.
oloon.*
Newgroup from Remco van de Meent <remco@oloon.xs4all.nl> on 22 Oct 1997
for oloon.test.blah.
pandora.*
Two Collabra newgroups from <news@afrodite.telenet-ops.be> on 11 Feb 1998.
paulp.*
A Collabra newgroup from <paul.pink@twi.com> for paulp.firstpost on 12 Nov
1997.
recar.*
A Collabra newgroup from <postmaster@stardivision.de> for recar.service on
9 Jan 1998.
reseaux.*
A Collabra newgroup from <lelievre.remy@getima.mutuagri.tm.fr> on 17 Nov
1997.
servodata.*
Seven Collabra newgroups from <news@proton.servodata.co.at> in early 1998.
shadowclub.*
A Collabra newgroup from <jwiseman@netsite.com> on 20 Jan 1998.
sit.*
A Collabra newgroup from <news@news.sunyit.edu> (SUNY Utica/Rome) on 25
Sep 1997.
sq.*
A Collabra newgroup from <joe_wright@compuware.com> on 10 Jul 1998.
sva.*
A Collabra newgroup from <news@news.krefeld.schulen.net> on 29 Sep 1997.
takefive.*
A Collabra newgroup from <postmaster@messe-nt.stardiv.de> on 17 Mar 1998.
telepac.*
Six Collabra newgroups from <news@www.icp.pt> on 25 Nov 1997.
tigr.*
Three Collabra newgroups from <dmaas@tigr.org> in Nov 997.
tfx.*
A Collabra newgroup from <vik@netnow.net> on 17 Jun 1998.
tu.*
Two Collabra newgroups for tu.private from <news@garcia.towson.edu> on
24 Nov 1997.
trw.*
Three newgroups on 24 Apr 1998; query sent to <news@trw.com>,
<news@news2.trw.com>.
twelvenet.*
A newgroup for twelvenet.support from <news@twelve.net> (well, "From:
<spam@browser.org>", which tale did not even try) in August 1998.
ul.*
A Collabra newgroup from <joe_wright@compuware.com> on 10 Jul 1998.
utc.*
Two Collabra newgroups from <christoph.haas@lgm.lion.de> on 16 Dec 1997.
utwente.*
This hierarchy is for the University of Twente in the Netherlands.
Messages sent to <newsmaster@utwente.nl> on 23 May 1996 and 30 Jun 1997
received no replies.
vsi.*
Two Collabra newgroups from <cmalatesta@corp.borland.com> on 5 Aug 1998.
wbband.*
A Collabra newgroup from <news@mercury.adc.com> on 28 Sep 1997.
zelenograd.*
"Dmitri N. Beloslioudtsev" <dnb@orgland.ru> sent two newgroups, one for
zelenograd.test and one for zelenograd.test1, on 4 Sep 1998. No other
newgroups have appeared for the hierarchy.