Archive-name: usenet/software/b/faq
Version: 1.08 (March 1994)
Last-Modified: Fri Mar  4 17:38:15 EST 1994

This posting provides answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) encountered
in news.software.b.

A companion posting, "C News Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)"
<software_b_cnews_770454615@nominil.lonesome.com>, provides
information about commonly encountered dilmemmas specifically related to
the C News package.  Yet another posting, "News.software.b: Introduction to
news.software.b" <software_b_intro_770454615@nominil.lonesome.com>,
serves as an introduction to the group.

Related postings are maintained by Tom Limoncelli <tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM>:
"INN FAQ Part 1/4: General Information"; "INN FAQ Part 2/4: Debugging Guide
& Tutorial"; "INN FAQ Part 3/4: Operational and Misc. Questions"; and "INN
FAQ Part 4/4: Appendix A: Norman's install guide".  Another is maintained
by Rob Robertson <rob@agate.Berkeley.EDU> and entitled "FAQ:  Overview
database / NOV General Information."

All these articles are repeated periodically for the benefit of new readers.

(Another set is being drafted by Ian Phillipps <ian@unipalm.co.uk> for
news.admin.technical; at this point this is a "work in progress".)
  

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Section Contents

• News Headers
• Table of contents.
• What is the charter of news.software.b?
• What is considered good net.etiquette on news.software.b?
• What is meant by news transports versus news readers?
• What news transports are available?
• What is the release status of C News? Where can I get it?
• What is the release status of INN? Where can I get it?
• What is the release status of B News? Where can I get it?
• What do I do if I am having trouble with C News?
• What do I do if I am having trouble with INN?
• What do I do if I am having trouble with B News?
• Is there documentation to aid administering news?
• What's the 'junk' newsgroup for? Should I propogate it?
• What is an RFC? Which are the relevant ones?
• Are there advantages of INN over C News?
• Why do C News and INN drop non-conforming articles?
• But why can't the poster be mailed a notice when this happens?
• So how can I find out if sites drop my articles as non-conforming?
• Couldn't we just fix articles by rewriting erroneous headers?
• What do C News and INN do with articles with no Distribution?
• Wouldn't it save space to compress stored news?
• What can I do to prevent running out of inodes in spool?
• Are there any tools for newsgroup moderators?
• Has anyone implemented "private" newsgroups using C News or INN?
• Can the news transport validate cancel messages?
• What is NOV? Where can I get it?
• What are related newsgroups for news transports and readers?
• Is news.software.b archived anywhere?
• Is news.software.b available as a mailing list?
• Why isn't this newsgroup named news.software.transports?
• Contributions to news.software.b FAQ.

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