motd.news
The <pathetc in inn.conf>/motd.news file contains any
local information for news readers to be shown when they
issue the LIST MOTD command. Such information may be noti
fications of upcoming downtime etc. The entire file is
returned to the newsreader.
A missing motd.news is not an error--the client will just
get an empty response.
This is revision 1.3, dated 1998/04/09.
inn.conf(5).