Changi NNTP Server 1.0

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Limiting Distribution of Posts

The optional distribution line within article headers is used to limit the distribution scope. Before feeding an incoming article to remote hosts, Changi will check the distribution given in the newsfeeds file against the distribution line in the article header.

An incoming article will be transfered to the remote site only, if at least one of the newsgroups and, in addition, one of the distributions given in the article header match the newsgroups and distributions specified in the newsfeeds file.

The distribution line may be included in the article header by the...

  1. ...newsreader creating the message.
  2. ...newsserver receiving the post.
Starting Changi with option -D or setting the environment variable CHANGIDISTRIBUTION will add the specified distribution to any article posted to the server.

It is also possible to add or override the distribution line based on the newsgroups the article is posted to. In this case you must create a file named group.distrib in CHANGIWORKDIR.

If all of the following is true

then the distribution line
Distribution: local
will be added to any article posted to a newsgroup, which is a subgroup of local. This is done for backward compatibility.

Note, that Changi will silently override existing distribution lines.


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URL: changi/manual/readlocal.html
Created: 2 December 1996
Revised: 2 December 1996
Author: harald@os2point.ping.de