From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!cbosgd!map
Newsgroups: net.news.map
Title: Introduction to current USENET map
Article-I.D.: cbosgd.3498
Posted: Mon May  2 11:50:55 1983
Received: Thu May  5 05:34:33 1983
Expires: Sat Jul  2 08:50:55 1983


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.

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
going to have to change the definition, perhaps to net.announce.)

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 UUCP line in most cases is blank, allowing
for future expansion.  We are not currently collecting UUCP data,
so please do not send us UUCP additions.  Send UUCP information
to cbosgd!uucpmap, which is handled by different people.

The map is organized geographically, dividing the world into several regions:
	Washington state and western Canada
		wa bc ab sk mb yt nt hi ak
	Oregon and the northern Rocky Mountain states
		or id mt wy nd sd ne
	California and Nevada
		ca nv
	The southwestern US
		ut co az nm ka ok tx
	The southeastern US including Missouri
		mo ar la ms al ga fl sc nc te
	The midwestern US
		mn ia wi mi in oh ky
	Illinois
		il
	The eastern seaboard
		va wv md de pa ny
	New Jersey
		nj
	New England
		ct ri ma vt nh me
	Eastern Canada
		on pq pe nb ns nf
	Europe
		europe
	Australia
		australia

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