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PD6:<UNIX-C.USENET> Programs, help files, and utilities related to reading, positing, archiving, and transfering USENET news.

ARCH-OLDNEWS.SH A shell script which archives old news by printing it on the line printer for later reference. Contributor: Charlie Perkins <charliep@polaris.uucp> ARCNEWS.TAR-Z Programs to automatically archive comp.sources.* from the network. Contributor: Tony Field <tony@ajfcal.uucp> BATCHMAIL.TAR-Z A program to convert batched news articles to a format suitable for exchanging via electronic mail. Contributor: Howard Chu <hyc@umix.uucp> BNCVT.C Accepts uncompressed news batches i "bnproc" format and writes them out in "unbatch" format, which can be piped directly into "rnews". This is for news 2.10.3, may not work for later versions. Contributor: Carl S. Gutekunst <csg@pyramid.uucp> BSNEWS.TAR-Z A collection of programs which allow a leaf node to "bootstrap" the news software to take a news feed without installing all the soft- ware. News articles are accumulated in a mail-type spool file, where they can be read with Mail, elm, etc. Contributor: Ronald Florence <ron@mlfarm.uucp> CHECKNEWS.SH A program which uses "rn" to check for news in newsgroups and then lists the newsgroups in multi-column format. Contributor: Don Gworek <uggworek@sunybcs.uucp> CNEWS.TAR-Z A rewrite of the transport and expire portions of the USENET software. It was designed to be fast and flexible. Contributor: Henry Spencer (henry@utzoo.uucp> DETM-UNBATCH.SH A shell script which cleans up TM files left in the UUCP spool directory by the news batching software. Contributor: Charlie Perkins <charliep@polaris.uucp> DU.TAR-Z Software to generate USENET disk usage and readership reports. Includes an enhanced version of "du". Requires the statfs() system call. Contributor: Chip Rosenthal <chip@chinacat.unicom.com> FOL.TAR-Z Invoked from readnews or vnews, lists the followups to the current article. Contributor: Daniel R. Levy <levy@cbnewsc.att.com> GEN-MODLIST.TAR-Z An "awk" script for generating the list of moderators from the information posted to the news.lists newsgroup. Contributor: Robert Adams <adams@calma.uucp> HEADERS.TAR-Z A program to remove selected header lines from files containing USENET articles. Provides a convenient way to scan through lots of articles for useful information. Contributor: Paul Dubois <bin@primate.wisc.edu> KEEPNEWS.TAR-Z A program to help users save news articles of interest in a single collection area. Contributor: Mark Swenson <mms@arizona.csnet> MVJUNK.SH A shell script to move articles which land in the "junk" newsgroup back into their proper newsgroups. Contributor: Jim Scardelis <frodo@wcom.uucp> NARC.TAR-Z Programs to save and catalog sources saved from USENET news. Contributor: Geoff Leach <geoff@laticorp.uucp> NESTOR.TAR-Z NEws STatistics ORganizer. A program to summarize the copious logging information from the NNTP news transport agent. NEWNEWSRC.SH A shell script to generate a new ".newsrc" file from an old one when moving between systems. Contributor: Col. G. L. Sicherman <colonel@ellie.uucp> NEWS2-11.TAR-Z News 2.11, with the first 13 patches applied. This is the official USENET news software. Contributor: Rick Adams <rick@seismo.css.gov> NEWS-MULTICAST.TAR-Z Software to make feeding a bunch of news sites a whole lot easier. Contributor: Mark H. Colburn <mark@jhereg.mn.org> NEWSBREAK.TAR-Z A program to unpack multi-file postings from the comp.sources groups. Version 1.09. Contributor: Fred Walter <grwalter@watfun.waterloo.edu> NEWSXD.TAR-Z A configurable daemon for controlling news transmission. Allows categories of service, transmission times, number of transmissions at a time, etc. Version 2.5.1. Contributor: Chris Myers <chris@wugate.wustl.edu> NN.TAR-Z A menu-based news reader with a complete set of features to satisfy both the expert and novice user. Menu based article selection, automatic digest splitting, folders, online help, built-in unshar, NNTP support. Version 6.4. Patchlevel 4. Contributor: Kim F. Storm <storm@texas.dk> NNTP.TAR-Z The NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol, RFC 997) protocol. Version 1.5.11. PRNEWS.SH A shell script to print news on the line printer, typesetter, or whatever instead of reading it at the terminal. Contributor: Col. G. L. Sicherman <colonel@ellie.uucp> PROCESS-JUNK.SH Another shell script to handle news articles which get tossed into the "junk" directory. Contributor: Charlie Perkins <charliep@polaris.uucp> RKIVE.TAR-Z USENET news archival software which can be configured to do all sorts of things. Contributor: Kent Landfield <kent@ssbell.uucp> RN-43.TAR-Z Version 4.3 of the "rn" program for reading the network news. Be sure to apply the patches in the "patches" directory. Contributor: Larry Wall <lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov> RN-MACROS.SH Macros for the "rn" program to enable killing of articles before reading them and other stuff. Contributor: Glenn Reid <greid@adobe.uucp> SAVENEWS.TAR-Z A different news archival system, similar to "keepnews", but works on larger archives. SAVENEWS.BUG contains a bug fix. Contributor: Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui@nsc.uucp> SAVESRC.TAR-Z A program to save sources off the USENET news, automatically extract them, compile them, and so on. Contributor: <chris@toram.uucp> TRN.TAR-Z Threaded newsreader based on rn 4.4. Builds and installs with no special tweaking. Version 2.0. Contributor: Wayne Davison <davison@borland.com> U-ALTGROUPS.TXT A list of the alternate newsgroups (alt.*) available on USENET as of 4-Oct-90. Contributor: Gene Spafford <spaf@purdue.edu> U-GROUPS.TXT A list of the available newsgroups on USENET as of 4-Oct-90. Contributor: Gene Spafford <spaf@purdue.edu> U-HISTORY.TXT A description of the history of USENET, where to get source code for the news software, etc. Last updated 4-Oct-90. Contributor: Gene Spafford <spaf@purdue.edu> U-INFOPOST.TAR-Z A list of the periodic repeated postings in several newsgroups. Things such as archive indexes, statistics, how-to articles, and so on. Last updated 14-Sep-90. Contributor: Gene SPafford <spaf@purdue.edu> U-INTRO.TXT An introduction to net.announce. Last updated 31-Mar-90. Contributor: Gene Spafford <spaf@purdue.edu> U-MAILLISTS.TXT A list of mailing lists available primarily on the UUCP network, as opposed to the Internet. This is similar to the List-of-Lists maintained at NIC.DDN.MIL. Current as of 4-Oct-90. Contributor: Gene Spafford <spaf@purdue.edu> U-MAILPATHS.TXT A description of how to allow "posting" to moderated newsgroups. Last update: 5-Sep-90. Contributor: Gene Spafford <spaf@purdue.edu> U-MODERATORS.TXT The list of newsgroup moderators and the groups they moderate as of 3-Oct-90. Contributor: Gene Spafford <spaf@purdue.edu> U-NETIQUETTE.TXT A *satirical* look at USENET ettiquette. Last update: 5-Sep-90. Contributor: Gene Spafford <spaf@purdue.edu> U-NETWORKS.TXT How to get information about the National Science Foundation (NSF) Internet. Last update: 16-Oct-89. Contributor: Gene Spafford <spaf@purdue.edu> U-PRIMER.TXT "A Primer on How to Work With the USENET Community", by Chuq Von Rospach. All new USENET news users should read this before tey do anything else. Last update: 4-Oct-90. Contributor: Gene Spafford <spaf@purdue.edu> U-QUESTIONS.TXT Answers to frequently asked questions on the net. The idea is to look here for the answer before posting questions like "what does FOO mean?". Last updated 4-Oct-90. Contributor: Gene Spafford <spaf@purdue.edu> U-REGGROUPS.TXT A list of the regional newsgroup hierarchies. Last updated 4-Oct-90. Contributor: Gene Spaffor <spaf@purdue.edu> U-RULES.TXT A description of the rules of conduct for USENET. Not following these rules will tend to get you unmercifully flamed. Last updated 19-Jul-90. Contributor: Chris Torek <chris@mimsy.umd.edu> U-STARTGROUP.TXT Instructions on how to establish a new USENET newsgroup. Last updated 6-Sep-90. Contributor: Gene Spafford <spaf@purdue.edu> U-STYLE.TXT Suggestions for writing style on USENET. Last updated 5-Sep-90. Contributor: David Booth <booth@vax135.uucp> UUNET.TAR-Z Programs to do semi-automated UUCP retrieval of files from UUNET. Contributor: Scott Garfinkle <seg@smsdpg.uucp> VN.TAR-Z A program which uses the same ".newsrc" file as "readnews", but provides a full-screen interface sort of like "rn" only different. Contributor: Bob Mcqueer <bobm@rtech.uucp> WHATISIN.SH A shell script to determine what is contained in various newsgroups at a glance. Contributor: Greg Earle <earle@smeagol.uucp>