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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