InterNews is a Macintosh program for reading the Usenet News. It requires an Apple Macintosh computer running MacTCP™. It will work under Macintosh System versions 6.0 and later. The Macintosh must be on a network that has a “news host” machine available. InterNews communicates with a service called NNTP (Network News Transport Protocol) on the news host. It supports the sending of mail using an SMTP host and some sort of user authentication service.
InterNews is available free of charge to users at educational or non-profit institutions. Dartmouth College requests that commercial and government sites purchase a license for the use of InterNews at the fee schedule and under the terms listed in the Licensing Information document included with the package.
The latest official version of InterNews is available via Internet FTP in <ftp://ftp.dartmouth.edu/pub/mac/InterNews_*>
Development versions of InterNews are available from time to time in <ftp://ftp.dartmouth.edu/pub/mac/InterNews_Dev/World>. Testers are always welcome.
This is a summary of the major changes since version 1.0.1. A detailed history is available upon request.
Version 1.0.4 released September 16, 1994
Bugs fixed:
- The preferred e-mail address preference was forgotten if the save name and save password preferences were not checked. Now it is is remembered regardless. If the subscription file is used by another user, messages sent from it will still use the existing preferred e-mail address if there is one, even if the user signs on with another name. This is complicated, but the best we can do. People should not share their subscription files.
- Cmd-period would cancel operations even if the app was in the background.
Version 1.0.3b1 released September 7, 1994
Two bugs fixed:
- Range check error when sorting a list of 12000 newsgroups.
- Import .newsrc did not recognize TEXT files.
Version 1.0.2 released August 25, 1994
Note: The User Manual still says version 1.0.1 because there are no significatnt changes to mention.
Version 1.0.2b7 August 16, 1994
Changes:
- Improved newsgroup list sorting for sites with large lists.
- Posting name and e-mail address preferences are cleared when a different user is authenticated.
- Some obscure memory bugs were fixed.
Version 1.0.2b5 July 18, 1994
Some small changes:
- The composing window will no longer close without asking to save changes.
- The posting name preference is filled in with the authenticated name if nothing has been entered by the user.
- InterNews is now stationery aware.
- You can import 'NEWS' type files as Unix .newsrc format files.
Version 1.0.2b4 July 7, 1994
The changes so far in 1.0.2 are all special configuration customizations:
- Users who use VMS for authentication can now enter a custom command line prompt.
- Several configuration options can all be made uneditable by site managers who want to restrict their user's ability to change those configuration items. See the =Quick Start= document for details.
- Fixed some bugs:
The wandering splitbar for windows that have the side-by-side layout.
