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John Smith (john@roundel.demon.co.uk)
FreeNews (NEW version)
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An NNTP fetcher for FreeNet. In its current state (version 1.00) it is a
news fetcher with features identical to that of KA9Q.
Interfacing with NewsBase (but capable of being used with other newsreaders,
it fetches all new articles in Newsbase's active newsgroups.
Version 1.00 of FreeNews provides a decent NNTP functionality for FreeNet.
At higher versions, there will be a vastly expanded range of facilities.
Newsgroups can be categorised as follows: Headers-only groups will download
all the new headers and list them to the user to download individual threads;
All-news groups will download all complete articles that are new.
It will eventually be possible to specify that you don't want to download any
messages from a certain individual. This could apply to individual messages,
or whole threads can be ignored because of a single contributor.
Similarly, regardless of poster, a thread can be "blocked". No more messages
in that thread will be downloaded. These elements of a "killfile" may be
set to expire in 'n' days, or never.
The opposite of all the above will also be true. A newsgroup may never
normally be searched for new news, but if any articles by a certain poster
appear, these will be downloaded. This applies to threads also.
Finally, it will be possible to request an individual message download by
message id. Thus if you see "in message <abc123@roundel.demon.co.uk> you said"
lines, and you don't have that message, FreeNews will fetch it for you.
Size limits can be specified. Thus, if you don't want to bother downloading
HUGE binaries, but don't mind seeing smaller ones, you could set the dload
limit to 500 lines. Messages larger than the limit will have their headers
dloaded only, so that you can choose to dload or ignore on an individual
message basis.
Status: Current version 1.00 ( the first live version )