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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 9137 2010-10-29 18:09:12Z iulius $

SEE ALSO

   nnrpd(8).



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