Newsgroup: it.news.gestione
Titolo: Unofficial Newsadmin-FAQ for the it-alt Usenet hierarchy

Unofficial Newsadmin-FAQ for the it-alt Usenet hierarchy
Index
0 - Introduction to it-alt.*
1 - Which are the unofficial control message issuers at the moment?
2 - Where can I find their policies for group creation/removal?
3 - Is there a checkgroups available?
4 - Can I automatically process control message for it-alt.*?
§ - Notes and acknowledgments
0 - Introduction to it-alt.*
  This FAQ has been prepared in order to give an overview of
the hierarchy and for helping newsadmins all over the world
to configure their news system for the it-alt.* Usenet hierarchy.
  The it-alt.* is a local hierarchy, distinguished from all the
existing ones for the language used (italian) and for the lack
of an official steering group.
  The hierarchy was first created in November 2003 and the general
rules may be found at 
http://www.linuxfan.it/it-alt/manifesto
(in italian) and an unofficial translation is available at:
http://www.linuxfan.it/it-alt/charter
 .
  There are some people who have voluntarily offered to send out
properly formatted and PGP/GPG signed control message to easily
accomplish group creation and removal requests posted on
news:it-alt.config .
  You might choose to add some lines added to the configuration files
ensure that the control messages sent by one, many or all of the
unofficial control messages issuers are easily processed with a
good degree of security and automation.
1 - Which are the unofficial control message issuers at the moment?
At the moment there are three active "newgrouper" (control message issuers)
on the it-alt.* hierarchy.
Informations about each of them is available from these links: (in italian)
http://www.linuxfan.it/it-alt/
http://www.x-privat.org/it-alt/
http://salamalai.dyndns.org/ustf/
 [ogni newgrouper può inserire la propria pagina tradotta]
2 - Where can I find their policies for group creation/removal?
The newgroupers have adopted different policies for group creation/removal;
Their specific policies are respectively available at: (in italian)
http://www.linuxfan.it/it-alt/policy
http://www.x-privat.org/it-alt/policy.htm
http://salamalai.dyndns.org/ustf/regolamento/view
 [ogni newgrouper può inserire la propria pagina tradotta]
3 - Is there a checkgroups available?
The current checkgroups can be found at:
http://news.linuxfan.it/it-alt/checkgroups
http://www.x-privat.org/it-alt/checkgroups.txt
http://salamalai.dyndns.org/ustf/cmsgs/view
4 - Can I automatically process control message for it-alt.*?
Yes, all the control messages issued for the it.alt.* Usenet hierarchy
can be automatically processed. You can find the public Sign Key used by
each newsgrouper at their respective web site, together with the config 
informations.
Should you need help, you can post to news.admin.hierarchies or ask for
help to the newgrouper of your choice. On their web sites you can also
find contact address and a list of other servers already carrying it-alt.*
in case you are seeking for NNTP peers.
§ - Notes and acknowledgments
This FAQ is unofficial. 
Corrections and suggestions are always welcome, folloup-to is set to Poster.
Many thanks to Cataldo Cigliola and Luigi Zarrillo for their work, and
to Alfredo Amontagna for his suggestions.

 (*) dittatura ovviamente impossibile per motivi istitutivi.
esistono le dittature silenziose :)
Posted from X-Privat Free NNTP server - 
www.x-privat.org

sottointese da molti ma mai esplicitate in un documento ufficiale.
Ma sì, scriviamo un centinaio di leggi, poi acclamiamo un ducetto, così
abbiamo fatto la tipica gerarchia italiana.
Anzi, propongo una ridenominazione: it-alt.*  ===> it2.*