Post a message to news.admin.misc.  If at all possible, post it with a
restricted distribution, so that only people who are likely to be able
to give you a feed will have to get it (e.g. if you have posting access
on a machine in Massachusetts, and the site you're setting up is going
to be in Massachusetts, then post with a distribution of "ne").

Note that you can post to news.admin.misc even if you do not have
direct Usenet access right now, as long as you have E-mail access, by
sending your message to a mail-to-news gateway.  However, if you use a
gateway, you probably can't use a restricted distribution as described
above, since the gateway probably isn't in the distribution you want to
post to, and besides, it's not clear that they listen to the
| "Distribution:" header in postings that are mailed to it.  Note that
| there doesn't seem to be any public mail-to-news gateways around any
| longer due to abuse.

When posting your message, try to be as specific as possible.  Mention
where you are, how you intend to transfer news from your feed site to
you (e.g. what kind of modem, how fast), approximately how many
newsgroups you are going to want to get and from which hierarchies, and
perhaps what kind of machine it's all for.  A descriptive Subject line
such as "news feed wanted -- Boston, MA" is also useful.

If there is a regional hierarchy for the distribution in which you want
a feed, then you might want to post a message in one of the regional
newsgroups as well, or cross-post your message to one of the regional
newsgroups.  Look first for an "admin" group (e.g.  "ne.admin"), then
(if there is no admin group) a "config" group, then for a "general" or
"wanted" group.


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