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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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23       Be aware that use of the LIST SUBSCRIPTIONS command is not widespread
24       (though documented in RFC 6048) and most news clients will never ask
25       for this file.
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EXAMPLE

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

47       Written by Bettina Fink <laura@hydrophil.de> for InterNetNews.
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49       $Id: subscriptions.pod 9137 2010-10-29 18:09:12Z iulius $
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SEE ALSO

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