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>Shuvam Misra (usenet at starcomsoftware dot com)
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>Revision History</B
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>Revision 2.1</TD
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>2002-08-20</TD
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>New sections on Security and Software History,
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lots of other small additions and cleanup</TD
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>Rewritten by new authors at Starcom Software</TD
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>Original document; authored by Vince Skahan.</TD
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>Table of Contents</B
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>1. <A
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>What is the Usenet?</A
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>1.1. <A
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HREF="x27.html#AEN29"
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>Discussion groups</A
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>1.2. <A
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HREF="x27.html#AEN38"
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>How it works, loosely speaking</A
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>1.3. <A
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HREF="x27.html#AEN46"
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>About sizes, volumes, and so on</A
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>Principles of Operation</A
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>2.1. <A
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HREF="x64.html#AEN67"
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>Newsgroups and articles</A
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>2.2. <A
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HREF="x64.html#AEN107"
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>Of readers and servers</A
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>2.3. <A
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HREF="x64.html#AEN128"
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>Newsfeeds</A
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>2.4. <A
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HREF="x64.html#CONTROLMSG"
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>Control messages</A
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>3. <A
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HREF="x248.html"
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>Usenet news software</A
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>3.1. <A
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HREF="x248.html#AEN250"
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>A brief history of Usenet systems</A
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>3.2. <A
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HREF="x248.html#AEN255"
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>C-News and NNTPd</A
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><DT
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>3.3. <A
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HREF="x248.html#AEN273"
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>INN</A
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>3.4. <A
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>Leafnode</A
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><DT
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>3.5. <A
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>Suck</A
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>3.6. <A
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HREF="x248.html#AEN302"
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>Carrier class software</A
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>4. <A
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>Setting up CNews + NNTPd</A
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>4.1. <A
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>Getting the sources and stuff</A
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>4.2. <A
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>Compiling and installing</A
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>4.3. <A
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>Configuring the system: What and how to configure files?</A
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>4.4. <A
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>Testing the system</A
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><TT
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>pgpverify</TT
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>controlperms</TT
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>4.6. <A
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>Feeding off an upstream neighbour</A
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>4.7. <A
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>Configuring outgoing feeds</A
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>5. <A
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>Setting up INN</A
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>5.1. <A
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>Getting the source</A
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>5.2. <A
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>Compiling and installing</A
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>5.3. <A
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HREF="x687.html#AEN698"
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>Configuring the system</A
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>Setting up <TT
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>pgpverify</TT
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>5.5. <A
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HREF="x687.html#AEN705"
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>Feeding off an upstream neighbour</A
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>5.6. <A
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>Setting up outgoing feeds</A
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>5.7. <A
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HREF="x687.html#INNEFFICIENCY"
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>Efficiency issues and advantages</A
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>6. <A
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>Connecting email with Usenet news</A
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>6.1. <A
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>Feeding Usenet news to email</A
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>Feeding email to news: the <TT
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>6.3. <A
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>Using GNU Mailman as an email-NNTP gateway</A
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>7. <A
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>Security issues</A
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>7.1. <A
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HREF="x758.html#AEN763"
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>Intrusion threats</A
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>7.2. <A
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HREF="x758.html#AEN789"
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>Vulnerabilities unique to the Usenet service</A
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>8. <A
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>Access control in NNTPd</A
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>8.1. <A
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>Host-based access control</A
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>8.2. <A
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HREF="x818.html#AEN826"
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>User authentication and authorisation</A
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>Components of a running system</A
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><TT
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>/var/lib/news</TT
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><TT
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>/var/spool/news</TT
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>: the article repository</A
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>9.3. <A
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><TT
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>/usr/lib/newsbin</TT
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>: the executables</A
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><TT
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><TT
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>newsrun</TT
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>: digesting received articles</A
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><TT
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>doexpire</TT
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>expire</TT
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>: removing old articles</A
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><TT
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>nntpd</TT
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>msgidd</TT
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><TT
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>nov</TT
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>, the News Overview system</A
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>9.9. <A
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>Batching feeds with UUCP and NNTP</A
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><DT
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>10. <A
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>Monitoring and administration</A
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>The <TT
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>newsdaily</TT
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> report</A
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>10.2. <A
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>Crisis reports from <TT
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>10.3. <A
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>Disk space</A
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>10.4. <A
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>CPU load and RAM usage</A
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>The <TT
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>Long pending queues in <TT
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>Problems with <TT
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>nntpsend</TT
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>10.8. <A
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>The <TT
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>junk</TT
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> and <TT
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>control</TT
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><DT
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>11. <A
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>Usenet news clients</A
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>Usenet User Agents</A
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>11.2. <A
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HREF="x1208.html#AEN1231"
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>Clients that transfer articles</A
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HREF="x1208.html#AEN1235"
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>12. <A
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>Our perspective</A
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>12.1. <A
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>Efficiency issues of NNTP</A
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>12.2. <A
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HREF="x1243.html#AEN1299"
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>C-News+NNTPd or INN?</A
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>13.1. <A
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>The quoted excerpts</A
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>14.1. <A
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>The manpages</A
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>14.2. <A
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>14.3. <A
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>O'Reilly's books on Usenet news</A
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>14.4. <A
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