The Ottawa News Administrators Group

ONAG's primary role is to focus discussions on ott.* management, and provide a consistent and timely procedure for group creation and deletion. Just as importantly, ONAG ensures that groups that people think should be created are created, and carried in significant portions of the Ottawa region. Without a body like ONAG, group creation is an ad-hoc procedure that rarely achieves reasonable coverage.

As a secondary role, ONAG produces a list of "approved" ott.* groups.

For the complete ONAG FAQ and information about creating new ott.* groups click here.

Members

• Chris Lewis (Nortel/BNR and Ocunix)
• John Stewart (Carleton University and ONET)
• Paul Tomblin (National Capital Freenet)
• Gordon Dewis (Pinetree)
• Dave Blackwood
• Russell McOrmond (Flora Community WEB)
• Miranda Gray
• Rob Kelk

Contacting ONAG

Ott.* newsgroups

• ott.business.ads Only group allowing commercial advertising in Ottawa
• ott.business.ads.computing Commercial postings from Ottawa-area computer vendors
• ott.community.motss Gay, lesbian, bi, trans chat in Ottawa-Hull, Canada
• ott.config ott.* hierarchy administrivia discussions
• ott.education.homeschooling
• ott.education.misc
• ott.events
• ott.forsale.computing Computers and related equipment forsale/wanted in Ottawa
• ott.forsale.other Otherwise unclassified items forsale/wanted in Ottawa
• ott.forsale.vehicles Vehicles forsale/wanted in Canada's National Capital Region
• ott.general
• ott.housing
• ott.jobs
• ott.motorcycles
• ott.online
• ott.personals Personals in Ottawa - no commercial ads!
• ott.politics Discussions about politics relevant to the Ottawa-Hull area
• ott.rec.books Local discussions about books and literature
• ott.rec.canoe-kayak Recreational Canoe/Kayaking in Ottawa, Canada
• ott.rec.sailing Sailing in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• ott.rec.snowmobiling Snowmobiling in the National Capital Region of Canada
• ott.rides
• ott.singles
• ott.talk.high-tech Discussions of interest to high-tech workers in the National Capital Region
• ott.test
• ott.vietnamese
• ott.weather

Ott.* charters

• ott.business.ads
• ott.business.ads.computing
• ott.community.motss
• ott.config
• ott.education.homeschooling
• ott.education.misc
• ott.events
• ott.forsale.computing
• ott.forsale.other
• ott.forsale.vehicles
• ott.general
• ott.jobs
• ott.online
• ott.personals
• ott.politics
• ott.rec.books
• ott.rec.canoe-kayak
• ott.rec.sailing
• ott.rec.snowmobiling
• ott.talk.high-tech

Technical information for newsadmins

Here are some entries for your INN control.ctl file to allow it to automatically process ONAG control messages:

############################################################## ## ONAG INN
control segment ## $Revision: 1.30 $ ## $Date: 2003/06/23 02:50:53 $
##############################################################

## OTT groups
newgroup:news@nortel.ca:ott.*:doit=mail
newgroup:news@nortelnetworks.com:ott.*:doit=mail
newgroup:clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca:ott.*:doit=mail
newgroup:news@ferret.ocunix.on.ca:ott.*:doit=mail
newgroup:news@*pinetree.org:ott.*:doit=mail
newgroup:gordon@*pinetree.org:ott.*:doit=mail

##  OTT groups
rmgroup:news@nortel.ca:ott.*:doit=mail
rmgroup:news@nortelnetworks.com:ott.*:doit=mail
rmgroup:clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca:ott.*:doit=mail
rmgroup:news@ferret.ocunix.on.ca:ott.*:doit=mail
rmgroup:news@*pinetree.org:ott.*:doit=mail
rmgroup:gordon@*pinetree.org:ott.*:doit=mail

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