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On 29 Dec 14  10:01:23, Paul Hayton said the following to Nick Andre:

PH> I'll make a start at things tonight when I have some spare time. A question
PH> about the Email/Usenet config. Using your examples what should I assign as
PH> the Index Address? I'm still confused as to what that is, does and how it
PH> should be set up elsewere in DB?

The Index address was initially used for the USENET.BBS file but I am going to
be rewriting that function. Leave it blank. Just use my examples for now and 
I'm sure you will be able to get it working good. It is exactly how it is set 
up here, almost verbatim. The trick is the NEWSRC program and the batch file 
that carefully calls Vsoup. Soupgate must always be immediately called after 
any Vsoup operation for D'Bridge to correctly toss the packets.

The NEWSRC program is what generates the indexes for D'Bridge Areafix. It is 
only ran once, or whenever you decide to nuke the NEWSRC text file and re-load
the groups from your ISP. Keep in mind when you do this, you need to 
re-Areafix all of the subscribed groups again... something else I'm planning 
to rewrite. 

You can also create a NEWSRC.BLK file containing keywords of Usenet groups you
do not want to carry on your system, ie. warez, binaries, etc. This file is 
only parsed once when the NEWSRC program is ran.

In your DB directory you also have JUNKCFGS.ZIP which you can unzip and modify
for additonal filtering of Usenet content.

As you can see from all of the work that has to be done, I was never really
happy with the way I wrote all of the Usenet functionality; but I have a good
idea how to fix this for the next release.

I have been hubbing Usenet since 1994 and only when I became the current 
author of D'Bridge was I able to really automate everything. Areafixing groups
is the big "selling feature" of my system since most others need the Sysop to 
manually request the groups from whomever the provider is.

When the last downlink has un-Areafixed themselves from a group (thus the 
gateway address is the last link left), D'Bridge is smart enough to remove 
that group and un-Areafix it from your ISP/NNTP server. THAT alone eliminates 
around 90% of the housekeeping required for a busy Hub system.

Nick

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