SUBSCRIPTIONS(5) InterNetNews Documentation SUBSCRIPTIONS(5)NAMEsubscriptions - Default recommended subscriptionsDESCRIPTION
The pathetc/subscriptions file contains a list of newsgroups that is
returned by the NNTP command LIST SUBSCRIPTIONS.
Clients that support this command and send it the first time they con‐
nect to a new news server use the returned list to initialize the list
of subscribed newsgroups. The subscriptions file therefore should con‐
tain groups intented 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 signifi‐
cant; the news reading client may present the groups in that order to
the user.
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.
SEE ALSOnnrpd(8).
INN 2.4.0 2002-02-02 SUBSCRIPTIONS(5)