SuperLinux Encyclopedia - Usenet, News readers

Misc:

• Freshmeat: News (text)
• Freshmeat: News (X11)
• Freshmeat: NNTP
• INN - InterNetNews  As maintained by ISC.
• Mail2News mini-HOWTO (How to set up a mail to news gateway.)
• News Leafsite mini-HOWTO (How to set up a leaf news site.)
• SELF-DISCIPLINE: Towards better News (a proposal for better newsgroup usage)
• Usenet FAQs In Hypertext
• Usenix/Uselinux Notes  Mar'97 LG
• PNF - Personal News Fetcher  "a suck-like tool, written in perl, to get news articles for a small news spool."
• sp4si  "sp4si is a shell script package which replaces get.news and put.news scripts included in suck package. sp4si offers multihosting- and multitaskingable news spool with suck for your INN news system."
• The GroupLens Project  "a collaborative filtering system that helps you work together with other people to find the quality news articles out of the huge volume of news articles generated every day", available for Gnus, tin and xrn.

Newsreaders:

• MetaLab's newsreader FTP dir
• Info for newsreader developers  Good stuff; by the Gnus developer. Standards, ideas, etc.
• X-based news readers

• GNUS  One of the best news and mail readers. Probably the most configurable and powerful. Lots to learn.
• Knews:
  • Knews Home Page
  • Knews tips  Jan'96 LG
• News Peruser "News Peruser is a freely distributable, X11-based, offline newsreader, intended for use by single-userGNU/Linux systems, with on-demand network access. "
• slrn:
  • home FTP dir
  • Slrn & Slrnpull: Sucking Down the News  Mar'97 LG
• tin "a threaded NNTP and spool based UseNet newsreader"
• XRN

News Servers, News Serving:

• leafnode (FTP tarball)  "a news server for small sites which is very easy to install and maintain"
• The Easy Way to Set Up a Local News Server  Sep'96 LG
• CoffeeLink News Server  "an advanced, easy to configure NNTP server" written in Java; good for hosting private discussion groups

Newsgroups:

• Archives:
  • DejaNews   Huge archive.
  • ComputerCraft  Most Linux newsgroups. With searcher.
• Lists:
  • SSC's annotated list of Linux-related newsgroups (good; also covers Unix, X, etc.; and mailing lists)
  • Yahoo's list of Linux newsgroups
• Some newsgroups that everyone should investigate:
  • news.announce.newusers: A dozen or so articles about Usenet. Etiquette, usage, standards, etc.
  • news.answers: FAQs associated with many other newsgroups.
  • news.lists.misc: (I've forgotten.)
  • comp.os.linux.*, where * is: advocacy, announce, answers, development, development.apps, development.system, hardware, help, misc, networking, setup, x
  • Others: alt.os.linux, *.answers, alt.usage.english

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