subscriptions - Default recommended subscriptions
DESCRIPTION
The pathetc/subscriptions file contains a list of news
groups that is returned by the NNTP command LIST SUBSCRIP
TIONS.
Clients that support this command and send it the first
time they connect to a new news server use the returned
list to initialize the list of subscribed newsgroups. The
subscriptions file therefore should contain groups
intented 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.
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 announce
ments 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 InterNet
News.
SEE ALSO
nnrpd(8).
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