Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!news.szaf.org!thangorodrim.ancalagon.de!.POSTED.scatha.ancalagon.de!not-for-mail From: Thomas Hochstein Newsgroups: news.admin.hierarchies Subject: Re: Reviving the hierarchy notes Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 23:42:40 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20231227we215908@o15.ybtra.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: thangorodrim.ancalagon.de; posting-host="scatha.ancalagon.de:10.0.1.1"; logging-data="19700"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@th-h.de" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett X-Face: *OX>R5kq$7DjZ`^-[1t8&@'PZ-tSFT*=<}JJ0nXs{WP<@(=U!'bOMMOH&Q0}/(W_d(FTA62 Julien ÉLIE wrote (on 2024-01-07): >> ## BDA (German groups?) >> checkgroups:news@*netuse.de:bda.*:doit >> newgroup:news@*netuse.de:bda.*:doit >> rmgroup:news@*netuse.de:bda.*:doit > > That's a new one. I'll look into that. Fascinating. "BDA" is an abbreviation for "Bundesdatenautobahn", which translates to "Federal Data Highway". That in turn was - AFAICT - a kind of joint venture of Spacenet GmbH (Munich), "Gesellschaft fuer Telekommunikation und Netzwerkdienste (GTN)" , Point of Presence GmbH (Hamburg), Netuse GmbH (Kiel) and one other participant to promote the World Wide Web as a kind of "Information Superhighway" in 1995/1996. The "Federal Data Highway" (or "Federal Information Superhighway") had "access ramps" in those cities and brought businesses and media (e.g. parts of the Spiegel) online. -thh