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- .Ch "Annotated Bibliography on C News"
- .Ix books bibliography
- .Ix bibliography
- .SH
- This is an informal list of books and papers that are of interest
- when running or looking at news systems in general and C News in particular.
- It might have been nice to include some of these things in the distribution,
- but it would have added considerable bulk to an already-large package.
- .PP
- .Ix "Managing UUCP and Usenet"
- .Ix books "Managing UUCP and Usenet"
- \fIManaging UUCP and Usenet\fR, by Tim O'Reilly and Grace Todino,
- O'Reilly & Associates, 1989, ISBN 0-937175-48-X,
- inquiries to `nuts@ora.com' or
- `uunet!ora!nuts'.
- This is the Nutshell Handbook on UUCP and news.
- This latest
- edition covers C News as well as B News.
- It's not perfect, but until something better comes along,
- it is overwhelmingly the right place for a novice system administrator
- to start reading.
- .PP
- .Ix "News Need Not Be Slow"
- .Ix paper "News Need Not Be Slow"
- .Ix paper usenix
- \fINews Need Not Be Slow\fR, by Geoff Collyer and Henry Spencer,
- in \fIWinter 1987 USENIX Technical Conference Proceedings\fR,
- The USENIX Association, 1987, no ISBN apparent,
- inquiries to `office@usenix.org' or `uunet!usenix!office'.
- This paper, although slightly dated, is the basic reference on how C News
- runs so much faster than B News.
- (We think, and others agree, that it's also a good paper on how to make
- things go fast in general.)
- It's also the closest thing so far
- to a general ``philosophy of C News'' paper,
- and gives a good\(emalbeit somewhat selective\(emoverview
- of the implementation.
- .PP
- .Ix "RFC 1036"
- .Ix "netnews message format standard"
- .Ix standards "netnews message format"
- \fIStandard for Interchange of USENET Messages\fR,
- by M. Horton and R. Adams,
- Internet RFC\|1036, 1987, inquiries to `nic@nic.ddn.mil' or
- anonymous FTP from
- nic.ddn.mil (pathname RFC:RFC1036.TXT).
- This is the current standard for Usenet article format and related issues.
- It is not complete, correct, or current, but it is nevertheless the basic
- document on the subject.
- (See our \fInotebook/rfcerrata\fR for some errata and one or two
- out-and-out disagreements.)
- Many issues are punted to RFC\|822; see below.
- .PP
- .Ix "RFC 822"
- .Ix "Internet message format standard"
- .Ix standards "Internet message format"
- \fIStandard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text Messages\fR,
- rev. by David H. Crocker,
- Internet RFC\|822, 1982, inquiries to `nic@nic.ddn.mil' or
- anonymous FTP from
- nic.ddn.mil (pathname RFC:RFC822.TXT).
- This lengthy and sometimes cryptic document defines
- the Internet mail format.
- The Usenet news format defined in RFC\|1036 is a subversion
- (superset of a subset)
- of this,
- and legalistic debates over details of the format inevitably end up
- referring to 822.
- Not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach.
- .PP
- .Ix "RFC 1123"
- .Ix "Internet Hosts Requirements"
- .Ix standards "Internet Hosts Requirements"
- \fIRequirements for Internet Hosts\(emApplication and Support\fR,
- ed. by R. Braden,
- Internet RFC\|1123, 1989, inquiries to `nic@nic.ddn.mil' or
- anonymous FTP from
- nic.ddn.mil (pathname RFC:RFC1123.TXT).
- This document updates and amends many older RFCs, notably including
- RFC\|822 (and therefore RFC\|1036).
- .PP
- .Ix news.software.b
- \fInews.software.b\fR, various authors, Usenet newsgroup with ongoing
- discussion, inquiries to your local Usenet site(s).
- The forum for B-News-compatible software in general, including C News.
- The definitive source for up-to-date information, patches, bug reports,
- warning of forthcoming developments, debates, flame wars,
- and general chitchat on news systems in general and C News in particular.
- Read, and contributed to, by most authors of news software.
- .PP
- .Ix news.admin
- \fInews.admin\fR, various authors, Usenet newsgroup with ongoing
- discussion, inquiries to your local Usenet site(s).
- The forum for news administration in general, including that of both
- B and C News.
- Somewhat noisy at times, but a valuable source of information.
- Noteworthy for Gene Spafford's regular postings on topics such as
- ``How To Construct The Mailpaths File''.
- .PP
- .Ix news.announce.newusers
- \fInews.announce.newusers\fR, various authors, Usenet newsgroup with ongoing
- discussion, inquiries to your local Usenet site(s).
- (Moderated) newsgroup for regular postings of interest to new readers of
- news.
- Also quite relevant to novice system administrators.
-