DESCRIPTION

       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 ALSO

       nnrpd(8).



INN 2.4.0                         2002-02-02                  SUBSCRIPTIONS(5)