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From: peter@citylink.dinoex.sub.org (Peter Much)
Subject: Re: Config for INN?
Organization: Buero fuer Sektenforschung und Qualitaetspruefung in der Esoterik
Message-ID: <D9As2H.2AK@citylink.dinoex.sub.org>
References: <D99Eur.6sx@mv.mv.com>
Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 16:49:28 GMT
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In article <D99Eur.6sx@mv.mv.com>, Coranth Gryphon <shaman@mv.mv.com> wrote:
>Hi. I am trying to configure INN on a FreeBSD 2.0R system.
>I did RTFM and got everything except the "newsfeeds" file.
>
>Two questions:
>(1) is it this file or "active" or both that determine which groups
>come IN to my site from my provider (or is that something on his end)?

It is the active file. You can't (in opposite to C-News) receive groups
not mentioned in active. The ME line in newsfeeds has very different
meaning than that of C-News' sys-file. And, surely, it's at first a
matter of Your provider, to configure what news are sent to You.

>(2) could someone send me a working newsfeeds file (or give me and
>ftp pointer to one) since I cannot figure out how to change
>the sampel one to work (inncheck keeps giving me things to fix).

One single line saying
ME:::
should be syntactically correct and enough to work and do nothing, i.e.
receive, but send no news to anybody. Then add the examples from the
NEWSFEEDS(5) manpage one by one, as far as You need them.

Peter
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