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diff --git a/news/dnews/pkg-descr b/news/dnews/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..6bed76ffaf51 --- /dev/null +++ b/news/dnews/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,82 @@ +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. |