RumorMill Help

Edit Newsgroup Help

Basic information

Name

The only value that must be filed in is the name of the newsgroup. The name should be less than 250 characters and the characters used should only consist of (a through z, 0 through 9, or the characters "+-/_=?.". The first character of the group name must be alphabetic (a-z) or numeric (0-9).

Description

A short description of the group may be optionally provided. Note that many of the standard newsgroups (those resident on other servers) may already have descriptions. You should only provide new descriptions for groups you are creating.

Moderated

News groups may be moderated, that is, articles may only be posted to the group by a moderator. Attempts to post to a moderated newsgroup will cause the article to be EMailed to the moderator. For this to work, you must specify that the groups is moderated, and provide a valid EMail address for the moderator. Note that you must also specify a valid SMTP mail server on the Mail Gateway page.

Default expiration period

Selecting the check box indicates that the server-wide default expiration period should be used for this newsgroup. You may optionally deselect the check box and specify an explicit expiration period for articles added to this group.

Send articles as EMail to (optional)

When articles are added to a group, it is possible to have RumorMill also EMail those articles to a list of users (or a mailing list). This can be convenient for some newsgroups and users. The list of of addresses must be less that 250 characters. If you need a longer list of users, setting up a mailing list is your best choice. Note that you must also specify a valid SMTP mail server on the Mail Gateway page.