Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!umd5!purdue!spaf From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Checkgroups message Message-ID: <2714@arthur.cs.purdue.edu> Date: 16 Dec 87 22:26:11 GMT Expires: 6 Jan 88 22:26:10 GMT Organization: Department of Computer Science, Purdue University Lines: 330 Supersedes: <2713@arthur.cs.purdue.edu> Recent versions of news support a "checkgroups" control message that can be used to help keep your active file in sync with the "standard" Usenet groups. What follows is a skeleton checkgroups control message that you can customize and run locally to check your active file. To run this message you must: 1) Edit this message. Remove everything before (and including) the first line marked with equal signs ("="), and everything after (and including) the last line marked with equal signs. 2) Add in lines representing any groups you receive in alternate distributions such as "alt", "bionet", "inet" or "unix-pc". You can also add in lines for local groups, if you want. Entries should be one per line with the newsgroup name starting in column 1. The newsgroup names should be separated from the description (if any) by tabs. The keyword "Moderated" should appear in any line describing a moderated group. 3) Edit the "Distribution:" header line to reflect an organizational distribution, if appropriate. DO NOT remove this line, or change the distribution to something wider than your organization. 4) "su" to root or your news user, and provide this as input to the inews program with the -h option; e.g., "/usr/lib/news/inews -h