Usenet News at UC Davis
Usenet News at UC Davis
Information Technology maintains a Usenet news server called "news.ucdavis.edu" for campus access to newsgroups. This server allows read and post access from all hosts registered in the ucdavis.edu domain as well as access from other Internet domains via Kerberos authentication.- What is a newsgroup?
- Usenet Hierarchies on UC Davis Usenet
- Reading UC Davis Usenet News from an ISP (from off-campus)
- How to Request a UCD newsgroup
- How Usenet at UC Davis is Organized
- The Usenet server, news.ucdavis.edu, maintains over 18,000 newsgroups which are organized by topic categories known as "hierarchies". If you know of a group which exists at another site but we don't seem to carry, send a request to have it added to the Usenet Administrator at usenet@ucdavis.edu.
- How Long Postings are Kept on Usenet at UC Davis
- In order to provide access to thousands of groups and maintain reliable server performance, Information Technology has established guidelines for how long postings are kept on the Usenet server. For most of the general newsgroups, postings are kept online for 5 days from the date that article or message appears. There is one notable exception. All groups within the UC Davis Class hierarchy (ucd.class.*) keep postings viewable for the duration of the current academic quarter (about 120 days).
Local ucd groups can be created to support classes, departments, and student groups. The Usenet news server is used extensively as a resource for class materials. We have several hundred newsgroups which are created with the specific purpose of supporting UC Davis academic courses. Appropriately named "class newsgroups", they can be established for individual courses offered throughout the academic year. Class newsgroups are local to news.ucdavis.edu only; they are not propagated to any other news server on the internet. This is necessary to keep the class newsgroups clean from spam and other unauthorized postings.
All other ucd.* groups are widely available at other Internet Service Providers (ISPs). If you wish to subscribe to ucd.* groups from off campus, please read the following information.
UC Davis does not provide general newsfeeds either free or for a charge