The Newsgroup Propagation Search Engine aka Groupsearch now lists 60 newsservers.
Yesterday I have received a login on the uiuc.edu server. Thank you Tim.
All the servers are polled daily so that proponents of newsgroups can follow the creation of their newsgroup all over the world.
With this number of servers the groupsearch gives a representable reflection on newsgroup propagation.
For a week now I have had a redirect towards William Bagwell's test machine for the NPSE.
He has introduced a few counters. With that it's a lot easier to see how well propagation goes.
It gives a total of servers, total of found and a percentage between them.
Next to that it checks moderation status and gives a count of that.
During the week of testing there were no negative responses, a suggestion of change the colour of a found element has been included.
The new engine is stable so I have removed the redirect and have included the new engine.
Also I have included some additional servers making a total of 58 servers checked.
I wished I could include Giganews in the search but they don't want to help us yet.
