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This FAQ is written by the Moderation of the Newsgroup nrw.admin.announce to help Newsadmins setting up their newsservers for the nrw.* hierarchy. It also provides a short overview about it.
In 1994 Sören Sörries and others tried to establish the hierarchie with two groups (nrw.test and nrw.allgemein). The Hierarchie didn't come into life due to bad distribution and interest of the users.
2002 a new try to re-establish the nrw.*-Newsgroups started. The Administration has been taken over by the Moderation of the Newsgroup nrw.admin.announce. Those people are currently:
| Name | Duty |
|---|---|
| Marc Brockschmidt | Controlmessages and substitute Webmaster |
| Paul Hink | Webmaster |
| Cord Beermann | Substitute for Controlmessages |
The Moderation of the Newsgroup nrw.admin.announce posts Controlmessages for adding (newgroup) and deleting (rmgroup) nrw.*-Newsgroups. Those Messages are archived at <ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/control/nrw/> and <http://nrw.usenetverwaltung.de/archiv/alle.html>.
The Document, that specifies the rules of nrw.*, an actual List of the nrw.* Newsgroups and the "checkgroups" Control-Message for nrw.* are posted in regular intervals by the Moderation of the Newsgroup nrw.admin.announce. All Postings of the Moderation of the Newsgroup nrw.admin.announce are archived.
That's your decision. If you get a "full feed", you should accept the Control-messages for nrw.*. Those message are always posted by the Moderation of the Newsgroup nrw.admin.announce (aka "control authority").
The Moderation of the Newsgroup nrw.admin.announce uses PGP to digitally sign newgroup, rmgroup and checkgroups Control-Messages. If you have PGP installed, you should check the Control-Messages, if they are really sent out by the Key-owner, and only if they are, you should honor the requests.
Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024/A195C439 2002/02/17 Moderation von nrw.admin.announce <moderator@nrw.usenetverwaltung.de>
<moderator@nrw.usenetverwaltung.de>
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Comment: <http://nrw.usenetverwaltung.de/pgp/nrw.asc>
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v6SnSaD9ra+C82t7mpaCDf1y/AbjtaE2NMnA6z5wJ6CByE/9BuvjFpOBfaaoFzB4
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915O3j+qj57A9EJKd/IwrPo59l1reriykQICn6Cb/+F1G2E5RZgMijV/0ZdYYi8J
bKfAcaz8fJoDeiIwht+zpqq/s28t51mYmKSDDwQbTkfaWD9BHM78xfWB3BHqlAvC
xNrhLkW3J20jxVumRCSm1BQ40Njybe9lumi0FQ==
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-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
The PGP Public Key for the nrw.*-Hierarchy can also be downloaded at <http://nrw.usenetverwaltung.de/pgp/nrw.asc>. More Information about PGP Key can be found at <http://nrw.usenetverwaltung.de/pgp/>.
Technical Details and Information about PGP signed Control-Messages can be found at <ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/pgpcontrol/README>.
A few lines have to be added to the Configurationfiles to automatically and securely honor the Control-Messages sent out by the Moderation of the Newsgroup nrw.admin.announce.
Please keep in mind, to add the PGP Public Key of the Moderation of the Newsgroup nrw.admin.announce (see above) to the PGP-Keyring of your Newsserver.
Add the following line to your "controlperm" CNews Config:
nrw moderator@nrw.usenetverwaltung.de cnr p moderator
Add the following line to your "controlperm" CNews Config:
nrw moderator@nrw.usenetverwaltung.de nr y
Add the following lines to your "control.conf" DNEWS Config:
newgroup:moderator@nrw.usenetverwaltung.de:nrw.*:doit,pgp rmgroup:moderator@nrw.usenetverwaltung.de:nrw.*:doit,pgp checkgroups:moderator@nrw.usenetverwaltung.de:nrw.*:doit,pgp
Add the following lines to your "control.conf" DNEWS Config:
newgroup:moderator@nrw.usenetverwaltung.de:nrw.*:doit rmgroup:moderator@nrw.usenetverwaltung.de:nrw.*:doit checkgroups:moderator@nrw.usenetverwaltung.de:nrw.*:doit
Add the following lines to your "control.ctl" INN Config:
checkgroups:moderator@nrw.usenetverwaltung.de:nrw.*:verify-moderator@nrw.usenetverwaltung.de=logfile newgroup:moderator@nrw.usenetverwaltung.de:nrw.*:verify-moderator@nrw.usenetverwaltung.de=logfile rmgroup:moderator@nrw.usenetverwaltung.de:nrw.*:verify-moderator@nrw.usenetverwaltung.de=logfile
[three lines]
Add the following lines to your "control.ctl" INN Config:
checkgroups:moderator@nrw.usenetverwaltung.de:nrw.*:doit newgroup:moderator@nrw.usenetverwaltung.de:nrw.*:doit rmgroup:moderator@nrw.usenetverwaltung.de:nrw.*:doit
Usually postings in a moderated Newsgroup were sent to a server, which has a recent List of Moderators. The nrw.*-Hierarchy uses the Server moderators.isc.org.
Please use:
nrw.* %s@moderators.isc.org
nrw.*:%s@moderators.isc.org
Please use only "moderators.isc.org" and not "moderators.uu.net", because E-Mail to nrw.*-Moderators are only relayed correctly via moderators.isc.org.
Feeds for nrw.* are available from:
All relevant links about the hierarchy nrw.* can be found at <http://nrw.usenetverwaltung.de/>.
On the 15th day of each month a recent list is posted to nrw.admin.announce, this list can also be found at <http://nrw.usenetverwaltung.de/newsgroups/liste.html>. The checkgroups-control-message (see chapter 2) is also posted to that group. Normally it only shows up in the Pseudo-Newsgroups "control" or "control.checkgroups".