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From: chrisp@marc.cri.nz (Chris Pugmire)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.osf.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: DNEWS NNTP News Server Binaries Available
Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 21:22:42 GMT
Organization: Internet Company of New Zealand
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Announcing DNEWS binaries now available for
AIX, Digital Unix, BSDI, SunOS, Solaris, Linux and SGI
DNEWS is a news server which can be used to replace
INN or CNEWS and generally results in better user response,
much lower system overhead and much less management.
Features of DNEWS.
Dynamic sucking feed.
A sucking feed may use as little as 10% of the normal
disk space and network bandwidth.
By only getting news items that people usually read
very large savings are possible particularly for small
sites & workgroups. A hundred users can be supported
on 100 MB depending on their reading habbits!
I run a single user server on my NT as a background
service, it's using less than 5MB.
Flexible expire settings
By allowing expiration by 'number of items' low volume groups
become much more useful. Also by allowing settings
which change with disk space the system is much more
stable to large influxes of news.
Flexible access restrictions
Reading and Posting access can be given separately to
to different users and selections of news groups.
Binarys available for common platforms
On many platforms you do not need to build the binary
yourself, e.g. Windows NT (Intel & Alpha)
VMS, (VAX & ALPHA, Multinet only), Solaris, Linux.
Email confirmation of posts
DNEWS can be configured to send email confirmations as it
sends items up to a main news server. This gives users
a clear record of a posted item and its successful
transfer into the 'net'.
Items stored in a database
Items are stored in a database which puts items together
in blocks of 100. This saves directory entries, inodes,
and the empty space usually wasted due to blocking factors.
Also file open and closes are minimized, this is essential
on systems where this is a 'costly' operation, e.g. VMS.
Installation easy, totally configurable without recompiling
DNEWS can be configured without recompiling and all
the configuration scripts have been simplified where
possible.
Supported & Documented
DNEWS is a commercially supported product.
EMAIL support is available for help with installation
and management.
FTP Binaries ftp://netwinsite.com/dnews
Web page: http://netwinsite.com/
FAQ ftp://netwinsite.com/dnews/install.txt
Mirror Site ftp://ftp.std.com/ftp/vendors/netwin/dnews/
EMail: netwin@world.std.com