Rink <rink.hof.haalditmaarweg@planet.nl> wrote:
>Op 1-7-2021 om 20:49 schreef Adam H. Kerman:
>> Thomas Hochstein <thh@thh.name> wrote:
>>> Adam H. Kerman schrieb:
>>
>>>> -- > (private)
>>> [...]
>>>> KA
>>> [...]
>>>> ULM
>>
>>> Those are regional hierarchies for the cities of Karlsruhe and Ulm
>>> (and the neighbouring areas).
>>
>>> ka.* has a peering policy demanding that each peer has to peer with a
>>> "core site", but that policy has never really been enforced, and the
>>> hierarchy is mostly available in the same way as any other regional
>>> hierarchies. According to your specification, it's "regional" for all
>>> intents and purposes.
>>
>>> ulm.* is a bit different; it's "private" as in "mostly [1] only
>>> carried by news.in-ulm.de", so mostly fits the "private" description.
>>
>>> -thh
>>
>>> [1] Many servers seem to carry the groups, but I'm not sure if they
>>> are really peering with the "home" server.
>>
>> Thank you. As no special permission is required, then they should not be
>> listed as private. Regional sounds like a better designation.
>>
>
>
>12 ulm.* groups are available on eternal-september
>8 of them are empty,
>two *.misc groups with the last message in 2012 (going back to 2008)
>and two *.test groups with only test messages in 2021.
>So these 12 newsgroups are not alive...
>No ulm.* groups on aioe and neodome
>
>These three newsservers have no newsgroups of ka.*
>
>I see a lot of regional hierarchies from Germany.
>(bln.* = Berlin, hamburg.*, muenster.*, hannover.*. kassel.*, kiel.*,
>muc.* = München, nrw.* = Nordrhein-Westfalen, rhein.*, ruhr.*,
>saar.*, braunschweig.*, luebeck.*, wolfsburg.*, and so on).
>But only a few newsgroups are alive (I haven't checked them all).
>The only newsgroup I follow is bln.verkehr, because there are
>also messages about trains and other public transport.

Thank you. I'll update the list with your notes.