
This directory is a compilation of the sites currently on USENET,
a logical network of sites running the network news (netnews).
This network consists entirely of Unix systems, connected by
various means (uucp net, berknet, arpanet).

The purposes of this directory are (1) so sites on usenet can
find out who else is on usenet, and (2) so new sites can find
someone nearby to hook up to.  It is requested that all new
sites post a message in the format of these messages on NET.general
announcing that they exist.

Note that the physical networks usenet is embedded in are much
larger.  The arpanet is organized by a central authority and
publishes a directory regularly.  The berknet configuration is
well known to any berknet site by reading /usr/net/network.map.
However, the uucp net is set up in such a way that for a new node
to be added, only the immediate neighbors need be aware of it,
and so noone really knows who all is on the uucp net.  Attempts
at making a uucp net map have failed because of the lack of a
global broadcast mechanism.  While an eventual goal of usenet
is to include all or most uucp net sites, note that the usenet
map is a subgraph of the uucp net - there are a few hundred uucp
net sites, most of which are inside Bell Laboratories and do not
run netnews.  Here is a sample list of the sites one Bell Labs
site knows:

names in L.sys:  513uxr 952a D1355 NW1 SW1A amacc1 alice arizona at3
bldg5 cbosg cbuxa cbuxb conceps druxa druxb druxc druxd druxe druxg
druxj duke eadas eagle gcapwb hocsa hocsb hocsc hocsd houxa houxb houxc
houxe houxg houxo houxp houxR houxr houxs houxt houxv houxw houxy ihn5a
ihn5b ihn5c ihnsf ihuxa ihuxb ihuxc ihuxd ihuxe ihuxf ihuxg kcep lab135
llmsg1 llmsg2 longlines machaids mddm mhLTX1 mhccm mhccvax mhltx1 mhrtb
mhrtc mhtsa mhtsb mhtsc mhuxm mhuxv mhuxh mhvts mhwpa mhwpb mhwpc mrl
mtymouse nscs nurd ocsvax pads physics pn-1 pwb1 pwba pwbb pwbcb2 pwbd
eiss pwbg pwbh pwbi pwbj pwbk pwbl pwbq qplot rbcspwb rdb fs research
sam34 sb1 sccs ssc1 sysc tandem topes ucbvax Xucbvax ucbvax ucbvaxddd
ucsfcgl usg vax135 wh5ess whlmos whuxb whuxd whuxla whwpa whwpb mh135z
mh135y

