NODELIST.BBS(5)

NAME
newsfeeds.bbs - specify the newsfeeds relation between News Newsgroups and BBS Boards for use by innbbsd and bntplink.

SYNOPSIS
Newsgroups Boards Server Lists group1,group2,... board1,board2,board3,... node1 node2 node3

DESCRIPTION

When referred by innbbsd, articles from Newsgroups will be received and posted into Boards. When referred by bntplink, articles in Boards will be sent to Newsgroups

OPTIONS

Newsgroups
    is the newsgroups to be received by innbbsd or sent to by bntplink. You can specify multiple newsgroups separated by commas "," without space, for example, "tw.test,csie.test".

Boards
    is the boards to carry articles from innbbsd or sent out by bntplink. You can specify multiple boards separated by commas "," without space; for example, "SYSOP,admin".

Server Lists
    is the list of servers to be the feed destination from bntplink or the source of innbbsd. You can specify multiple feed destination or source by specifying lists separated by space, for example, "server1 server2".

EXAMPLES

    # This is a sample of newsfeeds.bbs
    # newsgroups                boards          servers
    #-----------------------  --------------    -----------
    csie.bbs.adm.local        admin             news.csie.nctu
    tw.bbs.comp.hardware      hardware          bbsroute skhuang.graddorm
    tw.bbs.comp.network       network,          null
    tw.bbs.rec.comic,         comic             bbsroute
    nctu.test,                nctutest          bbsgate  skhuang.graddorm
    nctu.test,                nctutest2         bbsgate  skhuang.graddorm
    nctu.test                 nctutest,nctutest2 bbsgate skhuang.graddorm
    csie.test,tw.test         csietest          bbsgate sk-mail-list skhuang.graddorm
    tw.test                   csietest,          bbsgate skhuang.graddorm
    csie.test                 csietest,          news.csie.nctu sk-mail-list skhuang.graddorm

The server lists can be referred to nodelist.bbs. The first line specifies 1). articles from newsgroups "csie.bbs.adm.local" will be received from news.csie.nctu and put in board "admin". 2). article in board "admin" will be sent out to csie.bbs.adm.local in server news.csie.nctu.

The second line specifies 1). articles from newsgroups "tw.bbs.comp.hardware" will be received and put in board "hardware". 2). articles in board "hardware" will be sent out to servers "bbsroute" and "skhuang.graddorm".

The third line specifies single direction gateway: articles from "tw.bbs.comp.network" will be put in board "network" but won't be sent out to any servers.

The forth line specifies another single direction gateway: articles in board "comic" will be sent out to "tw.bbs.rec.comic", but won't be received.

The following three lines specifies single group to multiple boards gateway:

    group nctu.test --> boards nctutest,nctutest2

    boards nctutest,nctutest2 --> nctu.test

The last three lines specifies multiple groups to single board gateway:

    group tw.test,csie.test -> board csietest

    board csietest -> groups tw.test,csie.test

FILES and DIRECTORIES
~bbs/innd/bbsname.bbs,~bbs/innd/nodelist.bbs ~bbs/innd/innbbs.conf,~bbs/out.going,~bbs/innd/bbslog ~bbs/bbslog ~bbs/boards

AUTHOR
Shih-Kun Huang (skhuang@csie.nctu.edu.tw)

BUGS

SEE ALSO
newsfeeds.bbs(5),innbbsd(8),bntplink(8)