On 2004-11-24, Marc G Fournier From : <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew - Supernews) writes: >>Any chance of there being regular (or even only occasional) signed >>checkgroups messages for the new hierarchy? > > Sure, but I've never done it before, so if you can help ... ?
Sure. You can reach me by email or on the irc chan. You should already have a copy of the signcontrol script itself (it's in the INN distribution). The format of a checkgroups message is simple: one line in the message body per newsgroup in this format: group.name(tabs)Description of group The description must end with " (Moderated)" (without the quotes) if it is a moderated group in the Usenet sense, and not otherwise. Conventionally the separator is enough tabs so that the description starts in column 24, but the only real requirement is that there be one or more tabs (and not any other sort of whitespace, and no tabs in the description). This is the same format as the newsgroups file in INN. For the headers, you want "Control: checkgroups", an Approved header, and a Newsgroups: header with an appropriate announcement group in (pgsql.announce should do; the message won't show up to normal readers). Checkgroups should be posted preferably after any change to the group list, and once per month or two even if there are no changes. Obviously you need an appropriate PGP or GPG key (RSA seems to be best as far as compatibility goes), which has to be published somewhere (but doesn't need to be on keyservers). Let me know if you have any questions or if you want me to verify any messages. -- Andrew, Supernews http://www.supernews.com - individual and corporate NNTP services ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
