New port dnews 2.7q.

This is the last official release of dnews and it's a FreeBSD binary ;-)
Remember 4 weeks trial, after that you have to get a licence, even if
you are a school or univerity, which get it for free.

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+Copyright note
+==============
+
+	==> 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.