Creation and Addition of Newsgroups

Creation and Addition of Newsgroups
(Updated 5.4.1999)

Overview
Access to Internet electronic newsgroups is provided to newsreaders in the UB community.
Standards
In general, UB does not provide access to newsgroups that appear to contain data that violates copyright law (such as stolen software, e.g.: "warez" newsgroups).
The News System Administrator may choose not to provide access to newsgroups that will have a negative impact on the performance or storage space of the news server system. Newsgroups that have a very high volume of articles, or contain very large articles, may not be provided for performance or storage space reasons. The *.binaries newsgroups are commonly affected by this restriction.
In addition, UB will not add a complete hierarchical newsgroup at one time. For example, adding the group comp.sys.laptops would be acceptable, but adding the complete comp.sys.* hierarchy would not. Newsgroups in a hierarchy such as comp.sys.* must be requested and added individually.
The News System Administrator, working with CIT Academic Services personnel, decides which newsgroups will be provided on a case-by-case basis.
Users should be aware that information provided in newsgroups may be inaccurate.
UB Newsgroups must be "sponsored" by the Student Association or Academic Departments (for class newsgroups).
Please also refer to:

SUNY at Buffalo Computer and Network Usage Policy
ClariNet News terms for readers and users

Process
A user may submit a request for adding a newsgroup that UB has not provided yet by sending an e-mail message to cit-requests@buffalo.edu.

Contacts

For assistance with newsgoups contact:

CIT Help Desk
214 Lockwood, Lockwood 2nd Floor Cybrary
(716) 645-3542
cit-helpdesk@buffalo.edu
http://helpdesk.buffalo.edu

Related Links

» UB Computer and Network Use Policy

» UB IT Resources - Conditions of Use