"ZA" Newsgroup Hierarchy

The following newsgroups have recently been created, and should be available on your system if you're accessing news from a site in Southern Africa. The "za" hierarchy is a rationalised replacement for the older "uninet" and "sanet" regional news hierarchies, which were used for discussions on various topics of local (i.e. Southern African) interest. These newsgroups are propagated to a large number of systems in this part of the world, and definitely also find their way to systems in the U.S. and Europe. Persons or sites in the U.S. wanting to receive some or all of these groups should contact Randy Bush - randy@psg.com - in Portland, OR, to discover the best method of doing so.

  za.ads.jobs           Looking for a job?/Offering a job?
  za.ads.lifts          Want a lift from Bulawayo to Cape Town via Durbs?
  za.ads.misc           For sale/to swap/wanted to buy
  za.archives           Who's got what, where... and how...
  za.culture.xhosa      Ingxoxo ngolwini, amasiko nezithete zakwaXhosa.
* za.culture.xhosa      For discussions of Xhosa language and culture.
  za.edu.comp           Discussions on the use of computers in education
  za.environment        Environmental issues in Southern Africa
  za.events             Conferences, events and happenings nationally
  za.flame              A cool imitation of the real thing
  za.humour             Humour/jokes/fun
  za.misc               General chat, comments, announcements etc
  za.net.maps           Local UUCP maps [uucpmap@lasernet.co.za] (Moderated)
  za.net.misc           Miscellaneous ramblings on networking in ZA
  za.net.stats          Statistics on network usage, automated postings etc
  za.net.uninet         Announcements and feedback from the Uninet-ZA office
  za.politics           Politics in Southern Africa
  za.schools            Issues affecting primary and secondary education
  za.sport              Finer points of jukskei or the Comrades marathon
  za.test               Testing of news links and configurations
  za.unix.misc          General discussion, questions and chat about Unix in ZA

Entries marked with an "*" provide alternative descriptors for the systems "newsgroups" file.

The following major news hubs are reportedly carrying the "za.*" hierarchy. If you want to receive the newsgroups, get your news administrator to ask one of these hub sites where to get a feed.

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agate.berkeley.edu		San Franciso hub
darwin.sura.net			Washington DC area hub
europa.eng.gtefsd.com		Washington DC area hub
nctuccca.edu.tw			major hub in Taiwan
noc.near.net			Boston/New England hub
news.pipex.net			major hub in the UK
news.gatech.edu			SouthEastern US hub
news.moneng.mei.com		new site (the guy that used to run Spool.MU.edu)
news.hk.net			      hub in HongKong
newsserver.jvnc.net		New Jersey
nntp.xlink.net			major hub in germany
paladin.american.edu		the Usenet-to-Bitnet gateway site
sol.ctr.columbia.edu		NY City hub
spool.mu.edu			major hub, national influence
torn.onet.on.ca			Toronto Canada hub
usc.edu				Los Angeles hub
vixen.cso.uiuc.edu		Illinois
wupost.wustl.edu		      St. Louis
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netcom.com			On-line Communicarions Services, San Jose
uunet.uu.net                    UUnet, Virginia
well.sf.ca.us                   Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, San Francisco


From: ccfj@hippo.ru.ac.za (F. Jacot Guillarmod)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Subject: "za" newsgroup hierarchy
Date: 22 Aug 1994 14:35:31 +0200
Organization: Rhodes University Computing Services
Message-ID: <9408221233.AA04639@hippo.ru.ac.za>