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author | andreas <andreas@FreeBSD.org> | 1997-10-04 14:53:11 +0000 |
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committer | andreas <andreas@FreeBSD.org> | 1997-10-04 14:53:11 +0000 |
commit | dc455bf77d858e5f8db750ad52b0bd9e0e76c7e7 (patch) | |
tree | e51fa8c140763137c360a0842b51812f87ef266f /news/dnews/pkg-descr | |
parent | 8dc1d5515f125f5cd602d83ac185f4b4d34986a2 (diff) | |
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cosmetic changes using portlint, a really nice tool ;-)
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diff --git a/news/dnews/pkg-descr b/news/dnews/pkg-descr index 6bed76f..40d3af9 100644 --- a/news/dnews/pkg-descr +++ b/news/dnews/pkg-descr @@ -1,82 +1,17 @@ -Copyright note -============== +Feature list (trimmed): +- Dynamic sucking feed. +- Flexible expire settings +- Flexible access restrictions +- Binarys available for common platforms +- Email confirmation of posts +- Items stored in a database +- Compiling and porting relatively easy +- Installation easy, totally configurable without recompiling +- Documentated +- Supported +- Speed +- XOVER implemented in software +- Streaming support +- Strictly limited machine impact due to single threaded nature - ==> four week free trial period - ==> free for approved non-profit organisations like schools or - universities. But you still need to *register* your free copy - of DNEWS News Server to get the free license key. - ==> *payware* for other people and organisations - -More Infos -========== - - http://netwinsite.com/ - -DNEWS Feature list -================== - - 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. VMS, (VAX & ALPHA), Solaris, Linux, Windows NT - 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 it's 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. - Compiling and porting relatively easy - DNEWS was designed to be portable from the ground up, it - does not rely on obscure UNIX features. - Installation easy, totally configurable without recompiling - DNEWS can be configured without recompiling and all - the configuration scripts have been simplified where - possible. - Documentated - A user manual is available. - Supported - EMAIL support is available for help with installation - and management. - Speed - On comparable systems DNEWS typically out performs other - news software, (even the likes of CNEWS and INN in some - instances), other VMS news servers don't even come close. - This is partly because DNEWS uses a more advanced database - to store the news items. The difference is also very - noteable on smaller systems (e.g. Linux) - XOVER implemented in software - No xover database is created, the normal DNEWS database - is fast enough to create this information 'on the fly' - Streaming support - Streaming NNTP extensions are built in. - Strictly limited machine impact due to single threaded nature. - DNEWS runs on a single process, this speeds up connect - time as a process does not need to be created, and it - self-limits the impact on the system. -Limitations -=========== - - DNEWS does not store items in the same file structure as used by - INN and CNEWS, so old software which accesses these files directly - will not work. +Copyright and more infos: http://netwinsite.com/ |