es.* Newsadmins' FAQ

es.* Newsadmins' FAQ

Introduction

This FAQ has been prepared by the es.* committee to give an overview
of the local Spanish hierarchy and with the purpose of helping news
admins all over the world to configure their news system for the es.*
Usenet-newsgroups.

Please send your comments and suggestions to: moderador@corus-es.org
(David Martinez)

This FAQ is archived at
http://www.corus-es.org/docs/es_newsadmins_faq.txt

Date of last change: $Date: 2005/05/07 15:52:12 $
Revision: $Revision: 1.3 $

Table of contents
=================
1. Recent changes
2. Who administers es.*?
3. Who is moderador?
4. What does the committee do to administer es.*?
5. Which groups should I take on my site?
6. How should I configure my newssite for es.*?
7. What is the configuration for moderated groups?
8. Where can I find an up-to-date list of es.* newsgroups?
9. Are there any other sources with useful information?
10. What other questions are there?


1. Recent changes

- 2005/05/07
  Minor revision after switching domains for the committee servers
  (from rediris.es to corus-es.org).

- 2002/10/22
  Removed comment about a typo in the PGP identity.

- 2002/03/22
  Fixed the CNEWS line as well (the PGP identity is es.news, not
  es.news.anuncios). Thanks to Modesto again.

- 2002/03/15
  Messed up with es.news and es.news.anuncios. Many thanks to
  Julio Sanchez and Modesto Garrido for spotting the typos.
  Also changed the default action in signed rmgroup messages from
  'mail' to 'rmgroup'.

- 2002/03/06
  Fixed several typos, added some information about active groups file.

- 2002/02/13
  First version.


2. Who administers es.*?

On 1995, a group of newsadmins stablished the structure of es.* hierarchy,
since then, the es.* hierarchy is managed by a moderator and after 1998 the
moderation is done by a committee.

The es.* usenet committee (CORUS-ES)
<http://www.corus-es.org>
The committee can be reached at: corus-es-request@listserv.rediris.es

The es.* usenet moderator / control
<http://www.corus-es.org/moderador.es.html>
The moderator can be reached at: moderador@corus-es.org

The es.* usenet group mentors (mentor-es)
<http://www.corus-es.org/mentor-es.es.html>

The es.* usenet group votetakers (cuentavotos)
<http://www.corus-es.org/cvotos-es.es.html>

Guidelines for group creation within the es.* hierarchy
<http://www.corus-es.org/docs/creacion_grupos_es.txt>
<http://www.corus-es.org/como_proponer_grupos_es.txt>



3. Who is moderador?

The Committee has appointed David Martinez to act as moderator
(in other hierarchies, this role is called Control)



4. What does the committee do to administer es.*?

The committee (CORUS-ES) takes care of the structure of the hierarchy,
group management and control, guidelines for the es.* processes,
recomendations for es.* newsadmins, etc.

The moderador takes care of sending control messages for creating
(newgroup), maintaining (checkgroups) and removing (rmgroup) es.*
newsgroups and technical issues related to the hierarchy.

The mentor-es group takes care of new groups RFD's and group proposers
support.

The cuentavotos group takes care of group votings and report of
results.



5. Which groups should I take on my site?

It's up to you to decide, however, if you're taking a "full feed", then you
should accept the periodic control messages for the es.* groups issued by
the moderador, and nobody else. You may of course decide to take just
a part of the hierarchy or not carry disk consuming es.* binaries (in
es.binarios.*). 

It is possible to automate the acceptance of these control messages issued
by moderador@corus-es.org, and it is always safe to do so if you first
verify the PGP signatures with which they are authenticated.

If you don't want to mess with control messages, please update your active
groups list periodically with the one at:
ftp://ftp.isc.org/usenet/CONFIG/active

and extract from it only the es.* groups.



6. How should I configure my news site for es.*?

The es.* moderador uses PGP to digitally sign the newgroup, rmgroup and
checkgroups control messages. If you are using PGP, you can have the
newsserver automatically handle the KeyMaster control messages.

Control message sender: moderador@corus-es.org
Key User ID: es.news
Administrative group: es.news.anuncios

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: 2.6.3i

mQCNAzKltbIAAAEEAM9cNJJ8gJDDOA2mN9EDBlw4jOqFywOIUU8g+vBTJXnJi389
TSfsZTneJAw2rROf/CyNVVpM5RKIN9QotvqQV80SkpMOnShGWbp4JgeYl2Mz1dki
Rtcs4dZ2MrnAK62eresA9f0LpPktTqV6KaFvugRewAoNnl9GnZAe7JVtRX8ZAAUR
tAdlcy5uZXdziQCVAwUQMqW1spAe7JVtRX8ZAQFBqgP/ddF/iolVGKNIoYLHVpb9
KcmJ0q6zB3+JynSz8Bsugg9Ojh2NlujzGeDVN8eY2eOkrAqYt806LCUEsAZTVwGv
VufAr3jVIIZrhdnTziMdJfq5GixzkJKwDNbOp/5z85wSGrmc5FlmoJ8lEvFznuP5
nnVjbiyR9Tqc3Ny9omAR2z8=
=LeAj
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

For technical details, see:
ftp://ftp.isc.org/networking/news/misc/pgpcontrol/README
or
ftp://ftp.isc.org/networking/news/misc/pgpcontrol/README.html

CONFIGURATION:

Please remember to add the SG PGP public key to your newsservers PGP
keyring.

Cnews [with PGP]
-----
Add the following to your "controlperm" CNews configuration file:

es moderador@corus-es.org cnr p es.news

Cnews [without PGP (strongly discouraged)]
-----
Add the following to your "controlperm" CNews configuration file:

es moderador@corus-es.org nr y

DNEWS [with PGP]
-----
Add the following to your "control.conf" DNEWS configuration file :

newgroup:moderador@corus-es.org:es.*:doit,pgp
rmgroup:moderador@corus-es.org:es.*:doit,pgp
checkgroups:moderador@corus-es.org:es.*:doit,pgp

DNEWS [without PGP (strongly discouraged)]
-----
Add the following to your "control.conf" DNEWS configuration file :

newgroup:moderador@corus-es.org:es.*:doit
rmgroup:moderador@corus-es.org:es.*:doit
checkgroups:moderador@corus-es.org:es.*:doit

INN [with PGP]
---
Add the following to your "control.ctl" INN configuration file:

checkgroups:moderador@corus-es.org:es.*:verify-es.news=mail
newgroup:moderador@corus-es.org:es.*:verify-es.news=newgroup
rmgroup:moderador@corus-es.org:es.*:verify-es.news=rmgroup

INN [without PGP (strongly discouraged)]
---
Add the following to your "control.ctl" INN configuration file :

newgroup:moderador@corus-es.org:es.*:doit=newgroup
rmgroup:moderador@corus-es.org:es.*:doit=rmgroup
checkgroups:moderador@corus-es.org:es.*:doit=checkgroups


7. What is the configuration for moderated groups?

All postings to moderated groups within es.* should be sent to the address
es-group-name@moderadores.corus-es.org .You can use:

C News (file "mailpaths")
------
 es.* %s@moderadores.corus-es.org

INN (file "moderators")
---
es.*:%s@moderadores.corus-es.org

The %s@moderators.isc.org standard addresses will work as well.



8. Where can I find an up-to-date list of es.* newsgroups?

You can find an up-to-date list of es.* newsgroups in:

<http://www.corus-es.org/var/checkgroups>
(in 'checkgroups' format),

<http://ausadmin.corus-es.org>
(for a description of each group),


9. Are there any other sources with useful information?

The official site where es.* moderation and management is located
<http://www.corus-es.org/>

How to become a Usenet site
<ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/usenet/news-info/news.answers/usenet/site-setup>

A Spanish site with information about Usenet
<http://www.usenet-es.org>



10. What other questions are there?

Well, you should tell me that :-). Please, feel free to contact me at
moderador@corus-es.org