Newsfeeds describe your server's relationships with other news servers. Your server can accept feeds from other servers (an upstream server), and it can send articles to another news server (a downstream server). Both of these types of newsfeeds require coordination with the administrator of the remote news server.
RumorMill can also be configured to pull articles from a newsfeed. This feature is useful when you cannot arrange with another server to receive a feed.
There are default time periods for newsfeeds. The defaults may be overridden in the specific newsfeed description.
If your server is configured to send articles to a downstream server, then this setting is the default time period for sending any new articles. Thirty (30) is the default setting.
If a pull newsfeed is configured, RumorMill will poll that remove server every X minutes checking for new articles. You should be careful not to specify too small a time interval. Particularly as the number of groups you are pulling from a remote host gets large. Failure to heed this warning may draw the wrath of the remote server's sysadmin.
The Update button will commit any changes in the defaults fields to the server. Prior to pushing Update, the clicking the Reset button will return the values to their original settings.
Note: The maximum number of newsfeeds that can be defined is currently sixteen (16).
The Add button opens a new page that allows the definition of a new newsfeed.
The Reset button will deselect any selected newsgroup and reset any new values that have been entered in the defaults fields, but not committed via the Update button.