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Re: tin: ...subscriptions

#656
From: Kent C. Brodie
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:34
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Privataccount Roman Schwartz (schwartz@ipx22) wrote:
: Hi there,
: I liked to use the feature described in the tin manual, to make a file
: /usr/lib/news/subscriptions. This makes aa automaticall subscription of
: some newsgroups to new users of tin.
: But how is the format in that file? We use NNTP, but I didn't find 
: any NNTP LIST SUBSCRIPTIONS patch. 

The format is simple.   One newsgroup name per line.   i.e.,
ours looks like this:

news.newusers.questions
news.announce.newusers
news.answers
news.announce.important
news.groups		
news.lists
news.misc
comp.unix.ultrix


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Information Technology Systems
Medical College of Wisconsin				(414) 257-8769
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From: kcb@post.its.mcw.edu (Kent C. Brodie)
Newsgroups: news.software.readers
Subject: Re: tin: ...subscriptions
Message-ID: <1k43o6INNdrq@post.its.mcw.edu>
Date: 26 Jan 93 19:34:30 GMT
References: <1993Jan25.142421.14467@ppgfr.uucp>
Organization: Medical College of Wisconsin  (Milwaukee, WI)
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NNTP-Posting-Host: post.its.mcw.edu
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