## This is the NNTP server leafnode fetches its news from.
## You need read and post access to it. Mandatory.
server = news.hiof.no

## Unread articles will be deleted after this many days if
## you don't define special expire times. Mandatory.
expire = 20

##
## All the following parameters are optional
##

## Important and recommended setting:
## Fetch only a few articles when we subscribe a new newsgroup. The
## default is to fetch all articles.
## As leafnode forgets the article numbers of its upstream server when
## a group is marked as uninteresting, and later marked interesting
## again, you may end up downloading ALL articles from the upstream 
## in that group. So uncomment and adjust this line:
# initialfetch = 100

## I have free access to my news server. If you don't have, comment out
## the following two lines and change them accordingly.
# username = gulbrandsen
# password = secret

## By default, leafnode only serves connections from addresses in the
## local networks and drops those from outside. An IPv4 address is
## considered local if it is within the networks (IP/netmask) of the local
## interfaces. An IPv6 address is considered local if it is site-local,
## link-local or the loopback address (::1).
## If you do have working AND TESTED access restriction in place, and if your
## leafnode is wrapped with tcpd and you have selected remote users you
## still want to let in, uncomment this, capitalize the "strangers" part
## of the name and set this to 42. Yes, I know, this is ugly. But most
## users will not need it. And it's dangerous.
## AGAIN: ONLY SET THIS WHEN WORKING AND TIGHT ACCESS CONTROL
## (hosts.deny, tcpd) IS IN PLACE. USING THIS OPTION WITHOUT ACCESS CONTROL
## WILL OPEN LEAFNODE TO ABUSE, SPAMMING, SUBSCRIBE YOU TO GROUPS YOU DO 
## NOT WANT ETC. ## YOU REALLY DO NOT WANT TO ENABLE THIS OPTION. TRUST ME.
# allowstrangers = 0

## Standard news servers run on port 119. If your newsserver doesn't, comment
## out the following line and change it accordingly.
# port = 8000

## If you want to guarantee that the stdout/stderr are line buffered
## (GNU libc sets them to full buffering if they are redirected to
## files), then set this:
# linebuffer = 1

## This is another news server which stores some groups that are not
## available on the first one. You can define username, password and port
## for each server separately.
# server = sex.and.warez.com
# username = xenu
# password = secret

## This is a news server which does not understand the 
## "LIST NEWSGROUP news.group" command. For this reason, we don't try to
## download newsgroups descriptions when getting new newsgroups. This is
## achieved by putting "nodesc = 1" somewhere behind the server
## line.
# server = broken.upstream.server
# nodesc = 1

## Here we have another news server which has a very slow connection. For
## that reason, we wait a full minute before we give up trying to connect.
## The default is 10 seconds.
# server = really.slow.snail
# timeout = 60

## Disable the updating of the active file unless specifically requested
## in order to minimise network usage as much as possible.  The active
## file can be updated manually with the "-f" option to fetchnews.
# server = even.slower
# noactive = 1

## And this is a news server you only want to pull news from, but never
## post to. You can also use this as a workaround if you do not have posting
## permission on the server while it still greets you with a 200 code.
## The default is: nopost = 0
# server = lurk-only.example.com
# nopost = 1

## This shows how a server is configured that only has specific news
## groups. Note that this parameter is a PCRE, not a wildmat! See
## pcre(3) or pcre(7), depending on your PCRE version.
# server = cnews.corel.com
# only_groups_pcre = corel\.

## Non-standard expire times (glob(7) wildcard constructs possible)
#
# groups too big to hold articles 20 days:
# groupexpire comp.os.linux.* = 5
#
# very interesting, hold articles longer:
# groupexpire any.local.newsgroup = 100
# 
# archive this group (fetchnews uses the global expire to figure the
# maxage, but texpire will skip it):
# groupexpire my.archived.group = -1

## Never fetch more than this many articles from one group in one run.
## Be careful with this; setting it much below 1000 is probably a bad
## idea.
# maxfetch = 2000

## If you want to use leafnode like an offline newsreader (e.g. Forte
## Agent) you can download headers and bodies separately if you set
## delaybody to 1. In this case, fetch will only download the headers
## and only when you select an article, it will download the body.
## This can save a huge amount of bandwith if only few articles are really
## read from groups with lots of postings.
## This feature works not very well with Netscape, though (which is not
## a fault of Leafnode).
# delaybody = 0

## To avoid spam, you can select the maximum number of crosspostings
## that are allowed in incoming postings. Setting this below 5 is
## probably a bad idea. The default is unlimited crossposting.
# maxcrosspost = 5

## If you suffer from repeatedly receiving old postings (this happens
## sometimes when an upstream server goes into hiccup mode) you can
## refuse to receive them with the parameter "maxage" which tells the
## maximum allowed age of an article in days. A value of 0 indicates that
## no checking should be performed. The default maxage is 10 days.
## WARNING: maxage can be overridden by expire! See the clamp_maxage
## parameter below.
# maxage = 10

## By default, maxage is limited to groupexpire (if applicable) or
## expire (otherwise). On some rare occasions, this limit may be
## undesirable. To avoid this maxage manipulation, uncomment this line:
# clamp_maxage = 0

## maxlines will make fetch reject postings that are longer than a certain
## amount of lines.
# maxlines = 100

## minlines will make fetch reject postings that are shorter than a certain
## amount of lines.
# minlines = 2

## maxbytes will make fetch reject postings that are larger
# maxbytes = 50000

## timeout_short determines how many days fetch gets a newsgroup which
## has been accidentally opened. The default is two days.
# timeout_short = 1

## timeout_long determines how many days fetch will wait before not getting
## an unread newsgroup any more. The default is seven days.
# timeout_long = 6

## timeout_active determines how many days fetch will wait before re-reading
## the whole active file. The default is 90 days.
# timeout_active = 365

## timeout_client determines how many seconds of inactivity to allow before
## a client is forcibly disconnected. The default is 15 mins (900s). Optional.
# timeout_client = 900

## If you want to have your newsreader score/kill on Xref: lines, you might
## want to uncomment this.
# create_all_links = 1

## If you want to filter out certain regular expressions in the header,
## create a "filterfile" (how this is done is explained in the README)
## and set
# filterfile = /etc/leafnode/filters

## If your newsreader does not supply a Message-ID for your postings
## Leafnode will supply one, using the hostname of the machine it is
## running on.  If this hostname is not suitable, this parameter can be 
## used to override it.  Do not use a fantasy name, it may interfere with
## the propagation of your messages.  Most modern newsreaders do provide
## a Message-ID.
# hostname = host.domain.country

## If in your local Usenet hierarchy, posting unencoded 8-bit data in
## headers is condoned, uncomment this option to allow this. 8-bit data
## in headers is officially illegal, although the header character set
## may change to UTF-8 soon.
# allow_8bit_headers = 1