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This directory contains all of the C-News support files. I'll try to
give some idea of their purpose and format, but see the C-News
documentation for full details.
The "sys" file contains a list of the newsgroups that you will be accepting.
If you check the sample provided, you will see a list of newsgroups. It is
also valid to use the notation "comp.sources,!comp.sources.games" to mean
everything in comp.sources, but exclude anything in comp.sources.games (but
why would anyone do THAT ;-)
The "whoami" file is used when determining the "Path:" header line, both
for incoming and outgoing postings. (Note that outgoing postings are not
directly supported; currently I use the mailer to create a message and then
send that upstream to my feed and he handles it.)
The "active" file has a list of all newsgroups. Field 1 is the newsgroup
name, field 2 is the oldest article number, field 3 is the latest, and
the last field is "y" for "yes, I'll accept that", "x" for "ignore it",
and "=news.group" for aliasing one group to another (see the provided
sample for examples of each).
The "errlog", "log", "history", and "history.pag" files are status
files for the C-News package. See the C-News documentation for details.