subscriptions(5) [debian man page]

SUBSCRIPTIONS(5)					    InterNetNews Documentation						  SUBSCRIPTIONS(5)

NAME

       subscriptions - Default recommended subscriptions

DESCRIPTION

       The pathetc/subscriptions file contains a list of newsgroups that is returned by the NNTP command LIST SUBSCRIPTIONS.

       Clients that support this command usually send it the first time they connect to a new news server.  They use the returned list to
       initialize the list of subscribed newsgroups.  The subscriptions file therefore should contain groups intended for new users, for testing,
       or that contain FAQs and other useful information for first-time Usenet users.

       The syntax of the subscriptions file is trivial; it is a simple list of newsgroup names, one per line.  The order of newsgroups may be
       significant; the news reading client may present the groups in that order to the user.

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

EXAMPLE

       A typical subscriptions file may look like:

	   news.announce.newusers
	   news.newusers.questions
	   local.test
	   local.general
	   local.talk
	   misc.test
	   misc.test.moderated
	   news.answers
	   news.announce.newgroups

       This gives the client the FAQs and question newsgroup for new users first, then a local newsgroup for testing and various commonly-read
       local discussion groups, followed by the world-wide test groups, all the FAQs, and announcements of new world-wide newsgroups.  If there is
       a local new users group, one might want to list it first.

HISTORY

       Written by Bettina Fink <laura@hydrophil.de> for InterNetNews.

       $Id: subscriptions.pod 9138 2010-10-29 18:09:50Z iulius $

SEE ALSO

       nnrpd(8).

INN 2.5.3							    2011-06-10							  SUBSCRIPTIONS(5)