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NAME

6       subscriptions - Default recommended subscriptions
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DESCRIPTION

9       The pathetc/subscriptions file contains a list of newsgroups that is
10       returned by the NNTP command LIST SUBSCRIPTIONS.
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12       Clients that support this command usually send it the first time they
13       connect to a new news server.  They use the returned list to initialize
14       the list of subscribed newsgroups.  The subscriptions file therefore
15       should contain groups intended for new users, for testing, or that
16       contain FAQs and other useful information for first-time Usenet users.
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18       The syntax of the subscriptions file is trivial; it is a simple list of
19       newsgroup names, one per line.  The order of newsgroups may be
20       significant; the news reading client may present the groups in that
21       order to the user.
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EXAMPLE

24       A typical subscriptions file may look like:
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26           news.announce.newusers
27           news.newusers.questions
28           local.test
29           local.general
30           local.talk
31           misc.test
32           misc.test.moderated
33           news.answers
34           news.announce.newgroups
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36       This gives the client the FAQs and question newsgroup for new users
37       first, then a local newsgroup for testing and various commonly-read
38       local discussion groups, followed by the world-wide test groups, all
39       the FAQs, and announcements of new world-wide newsgroups.  If there is
40       a local new users group, one might want to list it first.
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HISTORY

43       Written by Bettina Fink <laura@hydrophil.de> for InterNetNews.
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45       $Id: subscriptions.pod 8822 2009-11-20 17:34:15Z iulius $
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SEE ALSO

48       nnrpd(8).
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52INN 2.5.2                         2010-08-11                  SUBSCRIPTIONS(5)