Relcom & Usenet News mailserver. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This automatic mail server relays news articles from Relcom and USENET via usual E-mail. If you want to use server you should send e-mail letter containing the list of commands to the address news@kiae.su. Subject is ignored. Command name can be in upper or lower case, all other arguments are case sensitive. Here comes brief description of available commands: HELP Send this file. All subsequent commands are ignored. LIST Give the list of all news groups with brief description. LIST hierarchy Give the list of news groups from the given hierarchy. For example, "list comp.sources". SUBSCRIBE group Subscribe to group in notify mode. Server will periodically send you a list of commands to retrieve new articles in the following format: GROUP news.answers -ART 100 size author subject In order to get the articles you interested in simply uncomment corresponding commands and send it back to server. Don't remove GROUP commands! FEED group Subscribe to group in feed mode. All new articles from a group will be immediately sent to you. WARNING: Never use feed mode if you're not completely sure that you need *all* articles and your e-mail connection is stable and permanent. This mode can easily cause e-mail traffic jams making impossible to send or receive any electronic mail at your machine. This can result in disconnecting your machine from net by some administrator, so be careful. RFEED size group Subscribe to group in restricted feed mode. All articles smaller than given size (in kilobytes) will be sent to you as in feed mode. Lists of bigger articles will be sent to you as in notify mode. UNSUBSCRIBE group Unsubscribe from group. UNSUBSCRIBE all Unsubscribe from all groups. FORGET If you were subscribed to some groups, and later unsubscribed, server continues to send you lists of newly created or deleted news groups, hoping that you might get interested in them. To finally unconnect from server give command FORGET. CHECK Show the list of groups you are subscribed to. GROUP group Go to the group. This group becames "current" (for commands ARTICLE, INDEX, LINDEX). ARTICLE number Send specified article. ARTICLE Send an article with specified message-id. INDEX [number [number]] Show list of articles in current group. The format of the list is the same as in subscribe mode. Arguments specify the range of article numbers. Negative agrument means 'LAST - number'. INDEX - all articles INDEX -20 - Last 20 articles INDEX 700 750 - articles in range 700...750 LINDEX [number [number]] Show detailed list of articles in the following format: Issue:
Subject: From: Date: Message-ID: Size: PACK Enable packing mode. All articles sent to you will be packed, compressed and encoded. This will reduce the volume and the total number of transmitted files. This mode is highly recommended. You should unpack received batches by one of the special utilities UNBATCH, UUNPACK or use mailer BML, which decodes batches on the fly. You can get the UNBATCH program (with sources) for MSDOS by command SEND uunpack-dos or for Unix 386 SEND unbatch-386 or for Xenix 286 SEND unbatch-286 If you need only sources of unpack programs you can get them by SEND unpack-src and SEND unbatch-src PACK OFF Disable packing mode. SEND Show list of files available on request. You can get these files by command SEND with parameters. SEND file Get a file. The following files are available: unbatch-dos 29k program UNBATCH for MSDOS unbatch-386 42k program UNBATCH for Unix 386 unbatch-286 38k program UNBATCH for Xenix 286 unbatch-src 20k sources of program UNBATCH uunpack-dos 23k program UUNPACK for MSDOS uunpack-286 29k program UUNPACK for Xenix 286 uunpack-src 8k sources of program UUNPACK GSTAT [hierarchy] Get information about subscriptions on groups. For each group is listed: name, number of articles (approximately), and number of subscribers in SUBSCRIBE, FEED and RFEED modes. USTAT [address] Get information about user subscriptions. User address is a regular expression in SH style. For example, command "ustat alex@*" will print information about users with name alex. For each user is listed: name, total number of groups, and number of subscriptions in SUBSCRIBE, FEED and RFEED modes. TIME Print current date and time. AGING OFF Turn off aging of subscribers. Usially server forget about silent user after 28 days of silence. AGING Turn on aging if it was turned off previously. QUIT Shows server that all commands are over. WARNING: don't use user name "uucp" or "news" to receive news - server ignores these names. In order to submit an article you should send the article with the header field "Newsgroups:" containing the comma-separated list of newsgroups (all newsgroups should be valid) to the address news@kiae.su. The default distribution of the message is the whole world, so you should think twice before sending your article. Remember it will be read by thousands or millions of readers around the world, so your message should not be offensive, should not violate copyright laws. Never write things already written by somebody. It's better to restrict distribution area to be as small as possible. You can do it using the header field "Distribution:". Valid distributions are: world, eunet, su, russia, moscow Example: % mailx news@kiae.su Subject: testing ~: headline Newsgroups relcom.test (continue) ~: headline Distribution su (continue) Twas brilling... . EOT % Please send all questions to usenet@kiae.su. Bug reports and propositions please send to Serge Vakulenko, vak@kiae.su. --CHECK >>> Check list, user: serge@envy.astro.unc.edu > PACK OFF > AGING > SUBSCRIBE relcom.archives.d > FEED relcom.currency > FEED relcom.netnews > FEED relcom.x > FEED relcom.arts.epic > FEED relcom.relarn.general > SUBSCRIBE relcom.archives > FEED relcom.arts.qwerty > FEED relcom.talk > FEED relcom.humor