For the impatient here are the most important parts of information for newsmasters, who want to run the hamburg.all hierarchie on their newsserver:
Please adjust your newsserver to only accept control messages that have a valid PGP Signature. If you are using INN as your newssever software you can copy the following lines into your control.ctl file:Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID pub 1535/BD98BCFB 2005/03/16 hamburg.koordination -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.3in mQDNA0I4jBcAAAEF/1d0ip5m1EuX9RnUYeZ6xOGvQEHFCCBk4aCOsgRmqDMw+2UC b9kXFzgxxyGRuAY2gUm+Qex4yEjLuZquagaBCO5cqP/6eOfwcFlIgjbI4mGu/5XH z5EhGNYwaDAyoI17Sx03l33Gf8zouGx6z7sZXa51xBunjaNHshwbG9O2JtDYkBKl 33VabqoTmgVR6wUrbvCFXia54G7QY6IPw/0WMVAI9Dcch49PE9ti4/jMwQxuNC/A 21qIlRYYVL5+vZi8+wAFEbQUaGFtYnVyZy5rb29yZGluYXRpb26JANUDBRBCOIxK GFS+fr2YvPsBAcXZBfkBJKI8qkcl4dUqaTWlqVwTrtdTYmmBROOHlWkeZ+GGfcK8 bqO9tOS+SJphFOeI6z60SAjo2uT388by86XRdSGkOBUMOQwTDIyIqPaaiYxEqH4p 9Gw4mGwcU+ilbArRCb9GiPY85Mh7TUgxmMRYrTQsDJ+ptsfIibyv7jQ4i0bbAZCH 30kY0Uj5HO6uyVuQUziIl2+E6+ZnnS9BLuHH0kxTcPmREO9piwMmVeLEj3qFwbzt PMiSW7oVNQL7zrNu4RI= =bcG0 -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
This will allow signed control messages to be executed automatically. The current List of newsgroups will also be available on this website for your reference. The hamburg.all hierarchie has no peering restrictions. You can set up a peering with any newsserver already having the hierarchie and may feed it on to others. In case you are looking for a peering and can not find any, you can send an email to hamburg@steering-group.net and I will try to help you find a peer for hamburg.all## HAMBURG (City of Hamburg, Germany) # Contact: hamburg@steering-group.net # URL: http://www.steering-group.net/hamburg/ # Key-URL: http://www.steering-group.net/hamburg/hamburg.koordination.txt # Key fingerprint: 3E E7 0C BB 6E 01 94 EE 45 6F C5 57 F4 B9 54 8E # *PGP* See comment at top of file. checkgroups:hamburg@steering-group.net:hamburg.*:verify-hamburg.koordination newgroup:hamburg@steering-group.net:hamburg.*:verify-hamburg.koordination rmgroup:hamburg@steering-group.net:hamburg.*:verify-hamburg.koordination