From: Gruppo Coordinamento NEWS-IT Subject: FAQ: How to add it.* newsgroups Newsgroups: it.faq,it.news.gestione,news.admin.hierarchies Followup-To: poster Organization: The Italian Usenet Cabal Approved: gcn@news.nic.it Summary: News configuration for the it.* hierarchy Posting-frequency: monthly Archive-maintainer: md@toglimi.linux.it (Marco d'Itri) Last-modified: Jul 31, 2003 ***************************************************************************** * IMPORTANT NOTICE: the PGP key 0x185317B9 once used by stefano@unipi.it * for signing control messages has been retired on Aug 2 2001! * Please read this FAQ for details about upgrading your configuration. ***************************************************************************** How to add the it.* hierarchy to a news server. This document contains the most important things related to adding the it.* news hierarchy to a news server or just configuring the server to carry it properly if it.* groups are already there. It is intended mainly for news system administrators. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- . Who administers the it.* hierarchy? The group in charge of the administration of it.* (GCN, Gruppo Coordinamento NEWS-IT, NEWS-IT Steering Group) can be reached through the address gcn@news.nic.it . Their web site is at http://www.news.nic.it/ . ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- . Getting a feed If you can't obtain a feed from one of your usual feeder write us. We will find a peer near your site or will arrange a direct feed from an Italian news server. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- . Automatic newsgroups creation Before August 2001 control messages were sent by Stefano Suin and signed with PGP key 0x185317B9 (user ID it.announce.newgroups). Please remove any reference to this address and key, because soon we will start sending bogus rmgroup messages signed by it to encourage everybody to update their configurations. Control messages are sent by the administrative account gcn@news.nic.it with the PGP key 0xB28B9B51 (user ID gcn@news.nic.it). You can download it from http://www.news.nic.it/pgp.txt . If you use INN you can add those lines to your control.ctl file: checkgroups:gcn@news.nic.it:it.*:verify-gcn@news.nic.it newgroup:gcn@news.nic.it:it.*:verify-gcn@news.nic.it rmgroup:gcn@news.nic.it:it.*:verify-gcn@news.nic.it If you don't use pgpcontrol you may add those lines instead: checkgroups:gcn@news.nic.it:it.*:doit=checkgroups newgroup:gcn@news.nic.it:it.*:doit=newgroup rmgroup:gcn@news.nic.it:it.*:doit=rmgroup A checkgroups control message for it.* is posted at the end of every month and can be downloaded from http://www.news.nic.it/checkgroups.txt ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- . Moderators file All postings to moderated groups within it.* should be sent to the address it-group-name@moderators.news.nic.it . If you use INN you can add this line to the beginning of your moderators file: it.*:%s@moderators.news.nic.it The %s@moderators.isc.org standard addresses will work as well. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- . Suggested expiration periods for announce groups FAQ and GCN related groups should be retained for at least one month. All periodic postings have a Supersedes: header so those groups can be retained for longer periods if desired. it.news.annunci:M:1:31:31 it.news.votazioni:M:1:31:31 it.faq:M:1:31:31 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- . Crossposts limits Articles crossposted to it.* newsgroups must follow these rules: - at most 10 groups in the Newsgroups header - at most 3 groups in the Followup-To header - if no Followup-To header is present, compute the limit on the Newsgroups header (i.e. at most 3 groups) Limits are enforced with an automatic cancelbot and locally by some of the major sites. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- . Other sources of informations Most italian news admins are subscribed to the mailing list newsadm-ita@news.nic.it . To subscribe send mail to newsadm-ita-request@news.nic.it or use the web interface at http://lists.bofh.it/listinfo/newsadm-ita/ . ----------------------------------------------------------------------------