From des@panix.com Thu Mar 16 23:29:36 1995
Path: panix!not-for-mail
From: des@panix.com (Don Samek)
Newsgroups: panix.questions
Subject: Re: Usenet Connectedness (Was Re: alt.fan.oj-simpson...)
Date: 16 Mar 1995 23:00:08 -0500
Organization: Panix Public Access Internet & Unix, NYC
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gordy@panix.com (uh..Clem) writes:

>Two weeks ago, I wrote:
>|
>|Comes now Don Samek, d/b/a des@panix.com, who submitted the following in
>|article <3j72mm$sk9@news.panix.com>: 
>||
>|	[...]
>|
>||Panix is rather well connected Usenet-wise [...]
>|
>|	Are the specifics documented anywhere here? I.e., who feeds Panix
>|from upstream, who Panix feeds downstream, which sites tend to be best
>|sources of which groups/hierarchies, etc. 
>|
>	[...]
>|
>	... and heard nada in reply. Which struck me as odd: Could I be in 
>that many killfiles? Or doesn't anybody In The Know want to disclose the 
>intimate secrets of Panix's newsfeeds?

The apparent reason for the lack of response is that jhawk, the person
primarily responsible for the Usenet-wise well connectedness of panix and
hence the person best suited to answer your query authoritatively, is not
currently reading the panix newsgroups on a regular basis. Panix's
connectedness is not a total secret, the sites panix exchanges news with are
listed in the publicly readable file "/usr/lib/news/newsfeeds" and the number
of articles panix receives from each site can be found by perusing the files
in /var/log/news.


    - Don