From: pete@cs.umd.edu (Pete Cottrell
Newsgroups: dc.config,dc.general
Subject: Periodic Posting of DC Hierarchy News Traffic
Date: 11 Dec 1995 17:21:02 -0500
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
Message-ID: <4aiase$10f@zippy.cs.umd.edu>
This is a list of the dc hierarchy newsgroups that the University of 
Maryland Department of Computer Science carries; it also lists the traffic 
seen locally for each of the groups.
	This is by no means an attempt at creating an "official" list of 
groups in the dc hierarchy; it is provided for purely informational purposes. 
This is what one site carries and propagates. It may serve as a guide for news 
admins who are configuring their own sites, and it may help users at other 
sites know which groups might not be on their machines but which might be 
available to them.
I. GROUPS AND DESCRIPTIONS
--------------------------
dc.test		Group for testing news
dc.general	Miscellaneous topics related to DC
dc.dining	Good eats around the DC area
dc.smithsonian	News about the Smithsonian Institution
dc.housing	Rent/buy/sell/seek housing in DC area
dc.redskins	Discussion about the Washington Redskins football team
dc.driving	Discussion of driving issues in DC area
dc.jobs		Jobs offered or wanted in the DC area
dc.biking	Discussion of biking issues in DC area
dc.music	Announce/discuss music events in DC
dc.config	Discuss creation/configuration of groups in dc hierarchy
dc.romance      Discussing/seeking romance in the DC area
dc.org.linux-users	DC area Linux users group announcements etc.
dc.politics	Discussion of politicians and political issues in the DC area
dc.forsale.misc		Buy, sell and swap non-computer items in the DC area
dc.forsale.computers	Buy, sell and swap computer items in the DC area
dc.media	Discussion of TV/Radio/Newspapers, etc. in DC area

II. NEWSGROUP TRAFFIC - This article traffic report is posted about every
---------------------	four weeks. I have listed the traffic for each group 
			for the last 4 4-week (approximate) periods, and have
			listed the newsgroups in order according to total
			volume of traffic.
							Total,
			7/26-	8/24-	9/20-	10/17-	7/26-	Previous
    Name		8/24	9/20	10/17	11/14	11/14	Ranking
    --------	        ----  	----    -----   -----   -----	-------
 1. dc.jobs		1842	 1918	2024	2654	8438	   1
 2. dc.forsale.misc**	1246	 1719	1578	1377	5920	   3
 3. dc.general		1351	 1142	1310	1453	5256	   2
 4. dc.politics		 498	  508	 425	1028	2459	   5
 5. dc.dining		 521	  399	 248	 393	1561	   7
 6. dc.biking		 380	  450	 327	 286	1443	   6
 7. dc.driving		 268	  422	 307	 410	1407	   8
 8. dc.romance		 185	  342	 216	 249	 992	   9
 9. dc.forsale.computers  36	  160	 289	 490	 975	  13
10. dc.music		 236	  217	 239	 216	 908	  10
11. dc.forsale*		 870	    -	   -	   -	 870	   4
12. dc.housing		 299	  170	 153	 135	 757	  11
13. dc.redskins		 125	  115	 202	 218	 660	  12
14. dc.test		  94	   78	  71	 105	 348	  14
15. dc.org.linux-users	  80	   77	  77	  75	 309	  15
16. dc.config		  56	   24	  31	  36	 147	  16
17. dc.media		  14	    9	  25	  19	  67	  18
18. dc.smithsonian	   5	   28	   6	  27	  66	  17

* - dc.forsale was split into dc.forsale.misc and dc.forsale.computers on
	August 6th. The traffic listed for the 7/26-8/24 period is from 
	7/26 up through the split on the 6th.

** - On our systems, dc.forsale is aliased to dc.forsale.misc, so this total
	includes postings to dc.forsale from sites which haven't made the
	split yet

III. NOTES
----------

	Groups not carried by the UMCP Department of Computer Science

dc.talk.guns	Created as a protest. Use talk.politics.guns
dc.ham-radio	Old group from the mid 80's, defunct. Superseded by 
		numerous other groups in the rec.radio and alt.radio
		hierarchies. 
dc.pc-users	Old group from the mid 80's, defunct. Superseded by 
		numerous other groups in the comp.sys.ibm.pc hierarchy
dc.info-mac	Old group from the mid 80's, defunct. Superseded by 
		numerous other groups in the comp.sys.mac hierarchy
dc.graphics.avs	defunct group; use comp.graphics.avs
dc.linux	Prematurely created with incorrect name; use
		dc.org.linux-users
dc.forsale	Obsolete; split into dc.forsale.misc and dc.forsale.computers
		on August 6th, 1995
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