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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 and send it the first time they con‐
13       nect to a new news server use the returned list to initialize the list
14       of subscribed newsgroups.  The subscriptions file therefore should con‐
15       tain groups intented for new users, for testing, or that contain FAQs
16       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 signifi‐
20       cant; the news reading client may present the groups in that order to
21       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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SEE ALSO

46       nnrpd(8).
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50INN 2.4.0                         2002-02-02                  SUBSCRIPTIONS(5)