Newsgroups: nl.newsgroups.announce,nl.newsgroups,nl.internet.welkom,news.admin.hierarchies Path: sisterray.xs4all.nl!news1.xs4all.nl!xs4all!a3.xs4all.nl!a3 From: a3 Subject: FAQ: NL-newsadmins-FAQ Approved: a3 Followup-To: nl.newsgroups Reply-To: Adri Verhoef Keywords: nl-hierarchy, nl-admin Sender: a3@news.a3.xs4all.nl (Adri Verhoef) Expires: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 22:01:00 GMT Organization: A3, The Netherlands Message-ID: X-Url: http://www.xs4all.nl/~kink/usenet/nladmin.en.html Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 02:05:36 GMT Summary: News configuration for the nl.* hierarchy Lines: 174 Xref: sisterray.xs4all.nl nl.newsgroups.announce:307 nl.newsgroups:12598 nl.internet.welkom:103 news.admin.hierarchies:9 Archive-name: nl/newsadmins-faq.en Posting-frequency: monthly, each 2nd day of the month Last-modified: Tue Oct 27 17:55:20 GMT 1998 NL-Newsadmins-FAQ ----------------- ------------------------------ Subject: Introduction This FAQ is prepared by Adri Verhoef for the mere purpose of helping news admins all over the world to configure their news system for the nl.* Usenet-newsgroups (also known as "nl-hierarchy"). The nl-hierarchy is the Dutch news hierarchy, mainly used by people from The Netherlands, a country in West Europe. Please send your comments and suggestions to a3@a3.xs4all.nl. ------------------------------ Subject: Table of contents 1. Recent changes 2. Who administers the nl-hierarchy? 3. What does the nl-admin do to administer the nl-hierarchy? 4. Which groups should I take on my site? 5. How should I configure my newssite for the nl-hierarchy? 6. What is the configuration for moderated groups? 7. Are there any other sources with useful information? 8. Where can I find an up-to-date list of nl.* newsgroups? ------------------------------ Subject: 1. Recent changes 11-05-1997: The ``From'' address in control messages for nl.* has been changed into ``nl-admin@nic.surfnet.nl'' as of June 1st, 1997. The old addresses (news@a3.xs4all.nl and news@info2.nic.surfnet.nl) should be deleted from the permissions file. (See: 5. How should I configure my newssite for the nl-hierarchy?) 02-03-1998: Change of nl-admin (see: 2). 30-06-1998: Changed address of NL-page (see: 7). ------------------------------ Subject: 2. Who administers the nl-hierarchy? In May 1995, two persons were accepted to administer the nl-hierarchy. They are called the "nl-admin". At this moment, the nl-admin consists of: Adri Verhoef Boudewijn W.Ch. Visser The nl-admin can be reached through this address: nl-admin@nic.surfnet.nl ------------------------------ Subject: 3. What does the nl-admin do to administer the nl-hierarchy? The nl-admin takes care of sending control messages for creating and removing nl.* newsgroups. Discussions about new nl.* groups takes place in "nl.newsgroups". The document that describes how to create a new nl.* newsgroup is posted there once a week. A "checkgroups" control message for nl.* is being posted each 21st day of the month. ------------------------------ Subject: 4. Which groups should I take on my site? That is up to you to decide. However, if you're taking a "full feed", then you should accept the periodic control messages for the nl.* groups issued by the nl-admin (and by nobody else). You may of course decide to take less than a full feed. ------------------------------ Subject: 5. How should I configure my newssite for the nl-hierarchy? The nl-admin uses PGP to sign the newgroup, rmgroup and checkgroups control messages. If you are using the PGP control system, too, then you can have the newsgroup server automatically handle the nl-admin control messages. The PGP public key for the nl-hierarchy can be found on the following URL: http://www.nic.surfnet.nl/pgp/ (search for "nl.newsgroups") By e-mail: pgp-public-keys@nic.surfnet.nl (Subject: GET nl.newsgroups) By FTP: ftp.pgp.net:pub/pgp/keys Specification: Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID pub 1024/23E9B3A9 1997/01/08 nl.newsgroups Key fingerprint = 45 20 0B D5 A1 21 EA 7C EF B2 95 6C 25 75 4D 27 For technical details and a list of public keys, see: ftp://ftp.isc.org/networking/news/misc/pgpcontrol/README or ftp://ftp.isc.org/networking/news/misc/pgpcontrol/README.html CONFIGURATION ------------- Cnews [with PGP] ------ nl nl-admin@nic.surfnet.nl cnr p nl.newsgroups Cnews [without PGP] ------ nl nl-admin@nic.surfnet.nl nr y INN [with PGP] --- checkgroups:nl-admin@nic.surfnet.nl:nl.*:verify-nl.newsgroups newgroup:nl-admin@nic.surfnet.nl:nl.*:verify-nl.newsgroups rmgroup:nl-admin@nic.surfnet.nl:nl.*:verify-nl.newsgroups INN [without PGP] --- checkgroups:nl-admin@nic.surfnet.nl:nl.*:doit newgroup:nl-admin@nic.surfnet.nl:nl.*:doit rmgroup:nl-admin@nic.surfnet.nl:nl.*:doit ------------------------------ Subject: 6. What is the configuration for moderated groups? Normally, postings to a moderated newsgroup are being sent to a server that keeps an up-to-date list of moderators. For the nl-hierarchy, you could use: C News (file "mailpaths") ------ nl.* %s@NL.net INN (file "moderators") --- nl.*:%s@NL.net (Instead of "NL.net", you could also use "moderators.uu.net", which points to the "nearest" site, for the majority of all sites.) ------------------------------ Subject: 7. Are there any other sources with useful information? The following URL contains all relevant links for the nl-hierarchy: http://www.kinkhorst.com/usenet/NL/ (in Dutch) ------------------------------ Subject: 8. Where can I find an up-to-date list of nl.* newsgroups? On each 7th day of the month, an actual list is being posted in nl.newsgroups. The checkgroups ctl msg (see subject 5) is posted there, too, but normally only shows up in the newsgroup "control". ------------------------------ Version of this document: #ident "@(#)ENnewsadmins 1.25 (a3) 98/10/27 18:55:18"