subscriptions(5) [debian man page]

SUBSCRIPTIONS(5)					    InterNetNews Documentation						  SUBSCRIPTIONS(5)

NAME

       subscriptions - Default recommended subscriptions

DESCRIPTION

       The pathetc/subscriptions file contains a list of newsgroups that is returned by the NNTP command LIST SUBSCRIPTIONS.

       Clients that support this command usually send it the first time they connect to a new news server.  They use the returned list to
       initialize the list of subscribed newsgroups.  The subscriptions file therefore should contain groups intended for new users, for testing,
       or that contain FAQs and other useful information for first-time Usenet users.

       The syntax of the subscriptions file is trivial; it is a simple list of newsgroup names, one per line.  The order of newsgroups may be
       significant; the news reading client may present the groups in that order to the user.

       Be aware that use of the LIST SUBSCRIPTIONS command is not widespread (though documented in RFC 6048) and most news clients will never ask
       for this file.

EXAMPLE

       A typical subscriptions file may look like:

	   news.announce.newusers
	   news.newusers.questions
	   local.test
	   local.general
	   local.talk
	   misc.test
	   misc.test.moderated
	   news.answers
	   news.announce.newgroups

       This gives the client the FAQs and question newsgroup for new users first, then a local newsgroup for testing and various commonly-read
       local discussion groups, followed by the world-wide test groups, all the FAQs, and announcements of new world-wide newsgroups.  If there is
       a local new users group, one might want to list it first.

HISTORY

       Written by Bettina Fink <laura@hydrophil.de> for InterNetNews.

       $Id: subscriptions.pod 9138 2010-10-29 18:09:50Z iulius $

SEE ALSO

       nnrpd(8).

INN 2.5.3							    2011-06-10							  SUBSCRIPTIONS(5)

DISTRIBUTIONS(5)					    InterNetNews Documentation						  DISTRIBUTIONS(5)

NAME

       distributions - Recommended values for the Distribution: header

DESCRIPTION

       The file pathetc/distributions contains a list of relevant distributions and their descriptions.  It provides local information for posters
       who wish to add a Distribution: header to their articles so as to restrict their propagation, although it does not guarantee that such
       articles will not leak elsewhere because of a misconfiguration of a news server to which they are fed.  See newsfeeds(5) for more
       information about how a news server handles the Distribution: header.

       Each line of this file consists of a distribution area followed by its description (encoded in UTF-8) after at least a whitespace.  For
       instance:

	   fr	   Local to France.
	   local   Local to this news server.
	   nj	   Local to New Jersey.
	   usa	   Local to the United States of America.

       Blank lines and lines beginning with a number sign ("#") are ignored.

       Any client that issues the LIST DISTRIBUTIONS command obtain these recommended values, if available.  However, be aware that use of the
       LIST DISTRIBUTIONS command is not widespread (though documented in RFC 6048) and most news clients will never ask for this file.

       If this file is empty, it is not an error.  The server will just send the client an empty response.  And if the file is missing, the server
       will also send the client an appropriate response to indicate that the distributions list is not maintained on the server.

       The Distribution: header can also be automatically set by nnrpd if distrib.pats(5) is correctly configured.

HISTORY

       Written by Julien Elie for InterNetNews.

       $Id: distributions.pod 9138 2010-10-29 18:09:50Z iulius $

SEE ALSO

       distrib.pats(5), newsfeeds(5), nnrpd(8).

INN 2.5.3							    2011-06-10							  DISTRIBUTIONS(5)