
# --------------OPTIONAL THINGS TO CHANGE BELOW HERE -----------------------
# Refuse news articles with a 'date' more than this old, this is just to avoid
# accepting news from a restored news disk.
too_old 35

# Send daily reports, default is 'yes'
# report no

# Logging and debug settings, error,warn,info,debug
# debug item:group:feed:chan:  Selective debugging output Default is all
loglvl info

# Number of days to keep fetching each news group after it's last read
life 20

# expire_at mins hours 
# this example would only do updates at night
# update_at *5 17-7
# Update twice an hour and do one expire at 2 in the morning
update_at 5,40 *
expire_at 5 2

# If less than 'n' megabytes are free on any partition/volume/disk then
# news will stop  sucking and accepting feeds, posts still work.
workarea_min	5
history_min	20
spool_min	10

# Do forward dns lookups on IHAVE entries in access.conf
# and find all the numbers related to the name.
access_forward true

# Do forward dns lookups on names returned from reverse
# dns lookups, if the number doesn't match the original number
# then don't use the name for access.conf checking. This 
# prevents dns spoofing (which is very very rare but possible).
dns_check true