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- Subject: Changes to "USENET Software: History and Sources"
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- Original-from: spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
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- news system through better locking, etc. The package was released to the
- net in the autumn of 1987. For more information, see the paper "News
- Need Not Be Slow," published in The Winter 1987 Usenix Technical
- -Conference proceedings. The most recent version of C News is the 20 Feb
- -1993 "performance release." C News can be obtained by anonymous ftp from
- +Conference proceedings. The most recent version of C News is the Sept 1994
- +"Cleanup Release." C News can be obtained by anonymous ftp from
- its official archive site, ftp.cs.toronto.edu:pub/c-news/c-news.tar.Z.
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- Another Usenet system, known as InterNetNews, or INN, was written by Rich
- ...
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- Towards the end of 1992, Geoff Collyer implemented NOV (News Overview): a
- database that stores the important headers of all news articles as they
- -arrive. This was intended for use by the implementors of news readers to
- +arrive. This is intended for use by the implementors of news readers to
- provide fast article presentation by sorting and "threading" the article
- -headers. (Until this point, newsreaders like trn, tin and nn came with
- -their own daemons and databases that used a nontrivial amount of system
- -resources). NOV for C News can be obtained from
- -world.std.com:/src/news/nov.dist.tar.Z (it will be integrated into the
- -next version of C News) and is already supported by INN and the nntp-t5
- -implementations.
- +headers. (Before NOV, newsreaders like trn, tin and nn came with their
- +own daemons and databases that used a nontrivial amount of system
- +resources). NOV is fully supported by C News, INN and NNTP-t5. Most
- +modern news readers use NOV to get information for their threading and
- +article menu presentation; use of NOV by a newsreader is fairly easy,
- +since NOV comes with sample client-side threading code.
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- ANU-NEWS is news package written by Geoff Huston of Australia for VMS
- systems. ANU-NEWS is a complete news system that allows reading,
- ...
- An NNTP newsreader for Macintoshs is available called HyperNews. It is
- implemented as a HyperCard stack and depends on MacTCP. It is available
- from many Mac archives, including ftp.apple.com and
- -sumex-aim.stanford.edu. A newsreader preferred by many Macintosh users
- -is NewsWatcher by by j-norstad@nwu.edu (John Norstad). The current
- -version is 2.0b8 and is available in ftp.acns.nwu.edu:/pub/newswatcher.
- +sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
- +
- +A newsreader preferred by many Macintosh users is NewsWatcher by by
- +j-norstad@nwu.edu (John Norstad). The current version is 2.0b8 and is
- +available in ftp.acns.nwu.edu:/pub/newswatcher.
- +
- +Nuntius is another newsreader for the Mac, written by Peter Speck
- +<speck@ruc.dk>. It can be obtained from frederik.ruc.dk, or the Cornell
- +mirror site ftp.cit.cornell.edu in /pub/mac/comm/test.
-
- There is also an NNTP-based netnews reader for Symbolics Lisp Machines
- (under Genera 7) available for anonymous FTP from ucbvax.berkeley.edu
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