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diff --git a/news_wizard/scripts/config.default b/news_wizard/scripts/config.default new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c1c98a3d --- /dev/null +++ b/news_wizard/scripts/config.default @@ -0,0 +1,116 @@ +## This is the NNTP server leafnode fetches its news from. +## You need read and post access to it. Mandatory. +server = __server__ + +## Unread discussion threads will be deleted after this many days if +## you don't define special expire times. Mandatory. +expire = 14 + +## +## All the following parameters are optional +## + +## I have free access to my news server. If you don't have, comment out +## the following two lines and change them accordingly. +# username = gulbrandsen +# password = secret + +## Standard news servers run on port 119. If your newsserver doesn't, comment +## out the following line and change it accordingly. +# port = 8000 + +## This is another news server which stores some groups that are not +## available on the first one. You can define username, password and port +## for each server separately. +# server = sex.and.warez.com +# username = xenu +# password = secret + +## This is a news server which does not understand the +## "LIST NEWSGROUP news.group" command. For this reason, we don't try to +## download newsgroups descriptions when getting new newsgroups. This is +## achieved by putting "nodesc = 1" somewhere behind the server +## line. +# server = broken.upstream.server +# nodesc = 1 + +## Here we have another news server which has a very slow connection. For +## that reason, we wait a full minute before we give up trying to connect. +## The default is 10 seconds. +# server = really.slow.snail +# timeout = 60 + +## Non-standard expire times (glob(7) wildcard constructs possible) +# groupexpire comp.os.linux.* = 5 # groups too big to hold articles 20 days +# groupexpire any.local.newsgroup = 100 # very interesting, hold articles longer + +## Never fetch more than this many articles from one group in one run. +## Be careful with this; setting it much below 1000 is probably a bad +## idea. +maxfetch = 2000 + +## Fetch only a few articles when we subscribe a new newsgroup. The +## default is to fetch all articles. +initialfetch = 1000 + +## If you want to use leafnode like an offline newsreader (e.g. Forte +## Agent) you can download headers and bodies separately if you set +## delaybody to 1. In this case, fetch will only download the headers +## and only when you select an article, it will download the body. +## This can save a huge amount of bandwith if only few articles are really +## read from groups with lots of postings. +## This feature works not very well with Netscape, though (which is not +## a fault of Leafnode). +# delaybody = 0 + +## To avoid spam, you can select the maximum number of crosspostings +## that are allowed in incoming postings. Setting this below 5 is +## probably a bad idea. The default is unlimited crossposting. +maxcrosspost = 8 + +## If you suffer from repeatedly receiving old postings (this happens +## sometimes when an upstream server goes into hiccup mode) you can +## refuse to receive them with the parameter "maxage" which tells the +## maximum allowed age of an article in days. The default maxage is 10 +## days. +maxage = 7 + +## maxlines will make fetch reject postings that are longer than a certain +## amount of lines. +maxlines = 500 + +## minlines will make fetch reject postings that are shorter than a certain +## amount of lines. +minlines = 2 + +## maxbytes will make fetch reject postings that are larger +maxbytes = 50000 + +## timeout_short determines how many days fetch gets a newsgroup which +## has been accidentally opened. The default is two days. +timeout_short = 2 + +## timeout_long determines how many days fetch will wait before not getting +## an unread newsgroup any more. The default is seven days. +timeout_long = 7 + +## timeout_active determines how many days fetch will wait before re-reading +## the whole active file. The default is 90 days. +# timeout_active = 365 + +## If you want to have your newsreader score/kill on Xref: lines, you might +## want to uncomment this. +# create_all_links = 1 + +## If you want to filter out certain regular expressions in the header, +## create a "filterfile" (how this is done is explained in the README) +## and set +# filterfile = /path/to/your/filterfile + +## If your newsreader does not supply a Message-ID for your postings +## Leafnode will supply one, using the hostname of the machine it is +## running on. If this hostname is not suitable, this parameter can be +## used to override it. Do not use a fantasy name, it may interfere with +## the propagation of your messages. Most modern newsreaders do provide +## a Message-ID. +# hostname = host.domain.country |