The permissions of the files are a tricky topic in combination with
FidoGate, ifcico and news. That's why you should have a look, if the
users news and uucp exist in your configuration. My
/etc/passwd looks like this:
uucp:sadfasdfasdf:5:5::/home/uucp:/bin/tcsh news:aasdfasdfsda:24:24::/home/news:/bin/tcsh
Furthermore the groups uucp and news must exist. It seemed to be very
helpful to insert the user news also in the group uucp and the user
uucp also in the group news. From my /etc/group:
uucp::5:uucp,news news::24:news,uucpAlso, all spool-files should be group writeable. We will discuss this later, but for now you just need to be aware of it.