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 9137 2010-10-29 18:09:12Z iulius $
SEE ALSO
nnrpd(8).
INN 2.6.4 2015-09-20 SUBSCRIPTIONS(5)