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+To use:
+	Set up some database (MySQL is recommended, but others should work too), with a schema as described in database.mysql
+	Rename/copy config.php.example to config.php and edit it according to your database settings
+	Add other news servers to the peers table in the database (address is in the format tcp://hostname:119, post is either 0 or 1 to try to post to this server)
+	Add newsgroups to the newsgroups table in the database
+	Add peer-group relations to the peergroups table in the database (peer is the id number from the peers table, group is the id number from the groups table)
+	Setup (x)inetd (or socat or netcat) to serve the server.php script on TCP port 119
+	Run the fetchnews.php script to synchronize with your peers
+	Install the fetchnews.php script in crontab to automatically synchronize with your peers