Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cbosgd.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!floyd!whuxlb!pyuxll!eisx!npoiv!npois!hogpc!houxm!hocda!spanky!burl!sb1!ll1!otuxa!we13!ihnp4!cbosgd!map From: map@cbosgd.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news.map Subject: Introduction to current USENET map Message-ID: <155@cbosgd.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Aug-83 03:00:11 EDT Article-I.D.: cbosgd.155 Posted: Mon Aug 1 03:00:11 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Aug-83 17:55:45 EDT Expires: Thu, 1-Sep-83 05:00:11 EDT Sender: roots@cbosgd.UUCP Organization: Bell Labs, Columbus Lines: 81 This is the current map of Usenet, incorporating all changes received by the date given. Please send corrections (and all changes to the configuration of Usenet) to "cbosgd!map". A blank entry means that the information for that site is unknown - if you see a blank entry you know the answer to, please let us know. Anything you would like to add to make information more specific is welcome - for example, if a site is just listed as "Bell Telephone Laboratories", we would prefer to list them as "Bell Labs, Columbus Operating System Group". We simply don't have the information to fill in for most sites. The European portion of this directory is maintained in Europe - we merely include information sent to us in this distribution. Send corrections for Great Britain to ukc!mjb; send corrections for the continent to mcvax!piet. The eur.gb.pss portion is still being experimentally included. The general feeling seems to be that this information belongs in a mail database, not a news database, but until someone starts maintaining a solid mail routing database (any volunteers?) this is the only available medium for distribution of this information. Usenet is defined as all sites receiving newsgroup net.general. A Usenet link between two sites is one that net.general is sent over. Note that this is different from a UUCP link, over which mail and file transfers may occur but not necessarily news. (We count the links to Europe even through they don't get net.general - we're eventually going to change the definition, to net.announce, once net.announce begins working.) The format of the map lists several mail-style header lines for each site. The lines are Name: the official site name, with optional nicknames Organization: the name of the company, university, or group Contact: the name of the Usenet contact person for the site Phone: the telephone number of the contact person Postal-Address: the paper mailing address of the contact person Electronic-Address: for the contact person News: neighbors this site sends net.general to Mail: sites for which there is a UUCP link or other ! syntax link. Continuation lines begin with a blank or tab. A blank line separates each site entry. The Mail line in most cases is blank, allowing for future expansion. We are not currently collecting Mail data, so please do not send us Mail additions. Send Mail information to cbosgd!uucpmap, which is handled by different people. The map is organized geographically, dividing the world into several regions: Washington, Oregon and the northern Rocky Mountain states usa. wa or id mt wy nd sd ne ak California and Nevada usa. ca nv hi gu tt The southwestern US usa. ut co az nm ka ok tx The southeastern US including Missouri usa. mo ar la ms al ga fl sc nc tn pr vi The midwestern US usa. mn ia wi mi in oh ky Illinois usa. il The eastern seaboard usa. va wv md de pa ny New Jersey usa. nj New England usa. ct ri ma vt nh me Western Canada can. bc ab sk mb yt nt Eastern Canada can. on pq pe nb ns nf Continental Europe eur. a b ch d dk e f gr i l n nl p s sf yu Great Britain and Ireland eur. gb gb.pss irl Australia aus.nsw All links are currently assumed to be bidirectional. Links are usually UUCP links, but in some cases other kinds of links are used. Karen and Mark Horton cbosgd!map