Default ME entry in sample/newsfeeds
Russ Allbery
rra at stanford.edu
Sun Mar 26 10:28:01 UTC 2000
I had this saved and I don't think I ever responded to it, although I
checked in a new default newsfeeds file a while back. So just to fill
people in....
Joe St Sauver <JOE at oregon.uoregon.edu> writes:
> As time goes by, full(-ish) feeds are going to be harder and harder for
> sites connected at less than DS3 (or fractional DS3) speeds to
> do. Moreover, how many times have you seen/heard someone confused about
> the function of ME, and how it interacts with INBOUND policy, etc.?
> For the ME line, I'd suggest a default of:
> ME:!*/!local,!collabra-internal::
> (If ME was called DEFAULT-OUTBOUND, then it would be much easier for
> folks to wrap their mind around, but that's a secondary issue.)
> Beneath that, perhaps, show several commented out typical ME entries
> that are alternatives people can uncomment if they'd rather follow some
> other policy direction.
What newsfeeds currently has is:
## The ME feed entry is special magic.
##
## "/exclude" entries for this feed entry will cause INN to reject all
## articles that have passed through those listed sites (by matching
## Path: entries). There are some "pseudo-sites" in general use that can
## be listed as exclusions to reject specific types of 3rd-party cancel
## messages (see the "Cancel FAQ" in news.admin.net-abuse.usenet):
##
## cyberspam Cancels for spam, munged articles, binaries
## spewcancel Cancels for munged articles and runaway gateways
## bincancel Cancels for binary postings to non-binary groups
## udpcancel Cancels to force sites to enforce antispam policies
##
## The "pattern" field for this feed entry gives the initial subscription
## list for all other feeds specified in this file. These patterns are
## *prepended* to all other feed patterns. Using this feature is
## confusing and mildly discouraged; make sure you understand the man
## page before using it.
##
## "/distrib" for this feed entry specifies what distributions the server
## will accept. If any distributions are listed there, the server will
## accept only articles with those distributions. If all the
## distributions listed are negated (starting with !), then the server
## will only accept articles without those distributions.
##
## Patterns affect *outgoing* feeds. Distributions affect *incoming*
## feeds.
# Empty default subscription list, reject all incoming articles with a
# distribution of "local" or "collabra-internal," accept all others.
ME:!*/!local,!collabra-internal::
I'd be happy to add another commented-out example if someone has a good
one that they think is needed, although I think the above is really what
nearly all sites want to use.
--
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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