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NAME

6       distributions - Recommended values for the Distribution: header
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DESCRIPTION

9       The file pathetc/distributions contains a list of relevant
10       distributions and their descriptions.  It provides local information
11       for posters who wish to add a Distribution: header to their articles so
12       as to restrict their propagation, although it does not guarantee that
13       such articles will not leak elsewhere because of a misconfiguration of
14       a news server to which they are fed.  See newsfeeds(5) for more
15       information about how a news server handles the Distribution: header.
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17       Each line of this file consists of a distribution area followed by its
18       description (encoded in UTF-8) after at least a whitespace.  For
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21           fr      Local to France.
22           local   Local to this news server.
23           nj      Local to New Jersey.
24           usa     Local to the United States of America.
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26       Blank lines and lines beginning with a number sign ("#") are ignored.
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28       Any client that issues the LIST DISTRIBUTIONS command obtain these
29       recommended values, if available.  However, be aware that use of the
30       LIST DISTRIBUTIONS command is not widespread (though documented in
31       RFC 6048) and most news clients will never ask for this file.
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33       If this file is empty, it is not an error.  The server will just send
34       the client an empty response.  And if the file is missing, the server
35       will also send the client an appropriate response to indicate that the
36       distributions list is not maintained on the server.
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38       The Distribution: header can also be automatically set by nnrpd if
39       distrib.pats(5) is correctly configured.
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HISTORY

42       Written by Julien Elie for InterNetNews.
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SEE ALSO

45       distrib.pats(5), newsfeeds(5), nnrpd(8).
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