Here are a few suggestions of messages to display to peers feeding news
articles to the server.

The contents of this file is displayed in reply to the LIST MOTD command
from feeders.

Just rename this file to "motd.innd" and adjust its contents to whatever
message of the day (encoded in UTF-8) you want to communicate.  It is
not an error if this file does not exist nor if it is empty.

For more information, please have a look at the generic motd.news
man page.


Example 1
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Attention all users,

This server will be down for scheduled upgrades on February 1st.
It should be back up by 8:00 a.m. February 2nd.
Any questions should be e-mailed to <newsmaster@example.com>.

Apologies for the disturbance.


Example 2
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This news server now carries the comp.* hierarchy.  Feel free to add
it to the list of hierarchies you feed us.


Example 3
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This news server no longer accepts articles whose length exceeds 32
768 bytes.  Please configure your server not to send us such articles.


Example 4
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Starting from February 1st, the IP of this news server will change.
Note that its host name remains the same.

In case explicit rules based on IP exist at your end (firewall, iptables,
feed configuration, etc.), please update them to use 10.0.0.1 as the
IP of our news server.