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<section><title>Usenet news clients</title>
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<para>
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This HOWTO was written to allow a Linux system administrator provide the
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Usenet news service to readers of those articles. The rest of this HOWTO
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focuses on the server-end software and systems, but one chapter
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dedicated to the clients does not seem disproportionate, considering
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that the <emphasis>raison d'etre</emphasis> of Usenet news servers is to serve
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these clients.
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</para>
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<para>
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The overwhelming majority of clients are software programs which access
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the article database, either by reading <literal>/var/spool/news</literal> on a
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Unix system or over NNTP, and allow their human users to read and post
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articles. We can therefore probably term this class of programs UUA, for
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Usenet User Agents, along the lines of MUA for Mail User Agents.
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</para>
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<para>
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There are other special-purpose clients, which either pull out articles
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to copy or transfer somewhere else, or for analysis, <emphasis>e.g.</emphasis> a
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search engine which allows you to search a Usenet article archive, like Google
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(<literal>www.google.com</literal>) does.
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</para>
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<para>
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This chapter will discuss issues in UUA software design, and bring out
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essential features and efficiency and management issues. What this
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chapter will certainly <emphasis>never</emphasis> attempt to do is catalogue all
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the different UUA programs available in the world --- that is best left to
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specialised catalogues on the Internet.
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</para>
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<para>
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This chapter will also briefly cover special-purpose clients which
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transfer articles or do other special-purpose things with them.
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</para>
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<section><title>Usenet User Agents</title>
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<section><title>Accessing articles: NNTP or spool area?</title>
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<para></para>
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</section>
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<section><title>Threading</title>
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<para></para>
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</section>
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<section><title>Quick reading features</title>
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<para></para>
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</section>
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</section>
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<section><title>Clients that transfer articles</title>
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<para>
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We will discuss Suck and <literal>nntpxfer</literal> from the NNTP server
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distribution here. Suck has already discussed earlier. We will be happy
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to take contributed additions that discuss other client software.
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</para>
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</section>
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<section><title>Special clients</title>
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<para></para>
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</section>
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</section>
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