This section is for news administrators to enable them to carry the correct
nz.* groups. It contains a checkgroups file and for those sites that run INN
control.ctl and moderators file entries are included as well as the PGP key
used to issue control messages for nz.* groups.

The checkgroups entry for nz.* is as follows, in order to run this by hand 
you can use the "docheckgroups" program included in the INN distribution.


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nz.arts 	Discussion on the Arts.
nz.comp 	Computing and computers.
nz.general 	General information, announcements, etc
nz.net.announce 	Status of Local & International Networks (Moderated)
nz.net.admin 	Administrative issues to do with the National Network.
nz.politics.announce	 Political and government announcements. (Moderated)
nz.politics	Politics
nz.rec		Recreation.
nz.reg.auckland.general		All about the City of Sails and Region
nz.reg.bay-of-plenty.general	Plenty to talk about in the BoP
nz.reg.canterbury.general 	Tales from the Garden City & Canterbury
nz.reg.dunedin.general 		NZ's Edinburgh is discussed all right here
nz.reg.gisborne.general 	First to see the sun each day
nz.reg.hamilton.general 	Where it's happening.
nz.reg.hawkes-bay.general 	The sunny wine capital of NZ
nz.reg.manawatu.general 	Palmie North and Wanganui on-topic here
nz.reg.nelson.general 		The top talk of the South Island
nz.reg.northland.general 	Cyberdiscussion of the far North
nz.reg.southland.general 	Net Discussions frrrom the deep south
nz.reg.taranaki.general 	Taranaki - the energy province
nz.reg.wellington.general  	Absolutely positively capital posts
nz.reg.west-coast.general 	There's gold in those postings
nz.soc		Social issues.
nz.soc.green	Environmental issues.
nz.soc.maori	Discussion of Maori related topics and issues.
nz.soc.queer	Discussion of issues related to the NZ queer community.
nz.soc.religion		Eternal debates and discussion
nz.tech		Gadgets, electronics and technology in New Zealand
nz.test		NZ hierarchy test messages.
nz.wanted	Requests for sources, information, ...
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The following are extracts from files used by the INN news-server.

The following should be placed in the "control.ctl" file. This ensures that 
groups will only be created or removed if signed by root@usenet.net.nz.

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## NZ (New Zealand)
# Contact root@usenet.net.nz
# PGP fingerprint: 07 DF 48 AA D0 ED AA 88  16 70 C5 91 65 3D 1A 28
newgroup:root@usenet.net.nz:nz.*:verify-nz-hir-control
rmgroup:root@usenet.net.nz:nz.*:verify-nz-hir-control
checkgroups:root@usenet.net.nz:nz.*:verify-nz-hir-control

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The following key (identified as "nz-hir-control" ) should be added to the
pgpring that your software uses:

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: 2.6.3i

mQCNAzNYhVkAAAEEAMtQi97id2CiV5TFAqB0xWP2S+4+dEx7lqvh/yXdAmMKHgUH
UFckf6+Nm62JGjzAvInoKdRN59zL1dYoAB/ZHzthWOlOaleGWM729txFlk6JBuoW
A/esv+P0BmG/RslIhp7Cyi9oySdFdQvUzd6RFBybJEC+Q0DCvvsII0K45VLFAAUR
tA5uei1oaXItY29udHJvbIkAlQMFEDNYhVn7CCNCuOVSxQEBi/ED/3eZE6LDVYgA
IlGgKn3jXK/vECvE3URq9XKdsBQovxEJz1AQEvhJuHzjap5JfbUTqqITZMfmqL6Z
IOZeCdGGrKw/SqFRM5Knq1Km6uK2D84m2n2zepsvqHb4IDY6j03pZJAd0r2EAMV+
QOVP7HJ8qn7hgFSiZUuu4Afr7v3K2qfb
=aND1
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----




You can also place the following entry in your "moderators" file if you wish.
It ensures that all posts to moderated nz.* groups are forwarded to the 
correct moderator at usenet.net.nz.

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nz.*:%s@usenet.net.nz
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This entry should be placed *before* a default entry at the end of the file.

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