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News.software.b Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
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".)
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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