[net.news.group] Washington newsgroup

wab (04/13/83)

	Is there a state newsgroup for Washington?  I know that New Jersey
and Oregon have one, but I haven't heard of such an animal for the Evergreen
State.  Would I be able to subscribe to such a newsgroup in Oregon?

						Bill Baker
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furuta (04/17/83)

No, I don't think that there is a State of Washington newsgroup.  In
fact, I don't think there are any net sites in Washington outside of
the Seattle metropolitan area.  I suppose it wouldn't be too hard to
set one up but since there hasn't been any apparent large demand for
it, it doesn't seem particularly necessary.  We do have a local
University of Washington Computer Science department group (uw.all) and
one for a set of companies which participate in what is known as the
University of Washington Computer Science Associates program
(uwcsa.all), all of which aren't in Washington, of course.  This
administrative partitioning of groups (as opposed to geographic
partitioning) has seemed to meet our local needs in the Computer
Science Department.

How active is Oregon's newsgroup?  Does the amount of traffic on it
justify its existence?  I suppose it might make sense to create a
Pacific Northwest group.

If you look at your graphical Usenet map, graciously provided by Dan
Lorenzini, you'll notice an interesting phenomenon.  There are tons of
news connections between California and Oregon and between Washington
and the East Coast but none between Washington and Oregon (and indeed
none between Portland and Corvallis within Oregon).  [Hmmm, I just
noticed that Seattle is on the wrong side of Puget Sound, too.] All
that this shows is that inter-state calling is frequently cheaper than
intra-state calling and that one is often more likely to be able to
arrange connections which follow corporate rather than geographic
lines.

			--Rick

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