1SUBSCRIPTIONS(5) InterNetNews Documentation SUBSCRIPTIONS(5)
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6 subscriptions - Default recommended subscriptions
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9 The pathetc/subscriptions file contains a list of newsgroups that is
10 returned by the NNTP command LIST SUBSCRIPTIONS.
11 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.
17 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.
22 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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28 A typical subscriptions file may look like:
29 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
39 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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47 Written by Bettina Fink <laura@hydrophil.de> for InterNetNews.
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50 nnrpd(8).
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