ONAG

The Ottawa News Administrators Group

ONAG consists of experienced Usenet administrators and users in the Ottawa area that are interested in ensuring that ott.* is a consistent and useful Usenet hierarchy.

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

The following people are members of ONAG:


Contacting ONAG

You can contact ONAG by sending an email to onag@pinetree.org.


Ott.* newsgroups

May 25, 2002 - The ott.community.lets newsgroup was rmgroup'd because it was a dead group


Ott.* charters

The following ott.* newsgroup charters are available: More charters are in the works.

Technical information for newsadmins

[UPDATED]

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
These entries are also available as a file.


All of the documents on the website are available on the ONAG FTP site at ftp://ftp.onag.pinetree.org/ONAG