Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 14:29:45 +1200 From: Chris Pugmire <netwin@world.std.com> To: www@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: News Server Software for FreeBSD Message-ID: <32D06399.740A@world.std.com>
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Dear FreeBSD Team, Can you please pass this email to the appropriate person. We are interested in discussing what opportunity there is to have the DNEWS News Server included in your FreeBSD package. The INN News Server is currently provided with your distribution. INN is a good News Server but we believe it would be of value to provide your users with a choice in this area. We have many FreeBSD users currently, the DNEWS server provides them very easy installation and management, reliable performance and virtually no administation overhead. We find we are better able to meet the needs of many system admins who do not necessarily have the technical knowledge or time that can be required to run INN. DNEWS also has several features not provided by INN these include our unique dynamic sucking feed option, and built in news to web gateway. The dynamic sucking feed option can provide significant savings in discpace and network bandwidth by dynamically selecting and maintaining only those news groups that are actually read. The news to web gateway allows users to read and post news directly from web pages using any browser and includes full text searching. Our initial thinking was that we could provide a compiled copy of the Lite version of DNEWS which normally retails at US$220, for you to distribute freely with FreeBSD. I note that beginning with FreeBSD Release 2.0.5, FreeBSD will include demo versions of some commercial and shareware software products, perhaps this would be the appropriate area for our contribution? We look forward to your response. Keep up the good work. Kind regards Stephen Pugmire Netwin Limited.
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