RumorMill Setup Documentation
A Newsgroup is a discussion area, a collection of articles posted by different users of the service. Newsgroup names are strings of normal letters and numbers, usually separated by dots (spaces are not allowed). Names must be all lower case: mixed case names are not allowed. The name should reflect the content and purpose of the newsgroup. (See the appendix on Usenet Group names for more information.)
If you wish to receive Usenet news, the group names must be the same as the Usenet news name. All groups you wish to collect must be listed explicitly in the Newsgroups window or RumorMill will not collect them.
You can add newsgroups individually using the Add button, or you can add a list of Newsgroups using the Open Newsgroups File button. A Newsgroups File must be either plain text file (such as those created by SimpleText or BBEdit) or a Newswatcher preference file. If you are adding a large number of newsgroups it is easiest to list them in a text editor (such as BBEdit) and then load them into the Newsgroups window, or directly using the Create Groups... menu option in RumorMill.
If the list of groups becomes larger than 1,300, RumorMill Setup cannot display the groups. This is a current limitation of RumorMill Setup, not the RumorMill server. Under these circumstances, the "Add" button can still be used to create new groups.