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Archive-name: usenet-software/diff1
Original-from: spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
Comment: edited until 5/93 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
Last-change: 5 Oct 1994 by netannounce@deshaw.com (Mark Moraes)
Changes-posted-to: news.admin.misc,news.misc,news.software.readers,news.software.b,news.answers

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 Archive-name: usenet-software/part1
 Original-from: spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
 Comment: edited until 5/93 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
-Last-change: 23 Sep 1994 by netannounce@deshaw.com (Mark Moraes)
+Last-change: 5 Oct 1994 by netannounce@deshaw.com (Mark Moraes)
 Changes-posted-to: news.admin.misc,news.misc,news.software.readers,news.software.b,news.answers
 
 
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 news system through better locking, etc.  The package was released to the
 net in the autumn of 1987.  For more information, see the paper "News
 Need Not Be Slow," published in The Winter 1987 Usenix Technical
-Conference proceedings.  The most recent version of C News is the 20 Feb
-1993 "performance release."  C News can be obtained by anonymous ftp from
+Conference proceedings.  The most recent version of C News is the Sept 1994
+"Cleanup Release."  C News can be obtained by anonymous ftp from
 its official archive site, ftp.cs.toronto.edu:pub/c-news/c-news.tar.Z.
 
 Another Usenet system, known as InterNetNews, or INN, was written by Rich
    ...
 
 Towards the end of 1992, Geoff Collyer implemented NOV (News Overview): a
 database that stores the important headers of all news articles as they
-arrive.  This was intended for use by the implementors of news readers to
+arrive.  This is intended for use by the implementors of news readers to
 provide fast article presentation by sorting and "threading" the article
-headers.  (Until this point, newsreaders like trn, tin and nn came with
-their own daemons and databases that used a nontrivial amount of system
-resources).  NOV for C News can be obtained from
-world.std.com:/src/news/nov.dist.tar.Z (it will be integrated into the
-next version of C News) and is already supported by INN and the nntp-t5
-implementations.
+headers.  (Before NOV, newsreaders like trn, tin and nn came with their
+own daemons and databases that used a nontrivial amount of system
+resources).  NOV is fully supported by C News, INN and NNTP-t5.  Most
+modern news readers use NOV to get information for their threading and
+article menu presentation; use of NOV by a newsreader is fairly easy,
+since NOV comes with sample client-side threading code.
 
 ANU-NEWS is news package written by Geoff Huston of Australia for VMS
 systems.  ANU-NEWS is a complete news system that allows reading,
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 An NNTP newsreader for Macintoshs is available called HyperNews.  It is
 implemented as a HyperCard stack and depends on MacTCP.  It is available
 from many Mac archives, including ftp.apple.com and
-sumex-aim.stanford.edu.  A newsreader preferred by many Macintosh users
-is NewsWatcher by by j-norstad@nwu.edu (John Norstad).  The current
-version is 2.0b8 and is available in ftp.acns.nwu.edu:/pub/newswatcher.
+sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
+
+A newsreader preferred by many Macintosh users is NewsWatcher by by
+j-norstad@nwu.edu (John Norstad).  The current version is 2.0b8 and is
+available in ftp.acns.nwu.edu:/pub/newswatcher.
+
+Nuntius is another newsreader for the Mac, written by Peter Speck
+<speck@ruc.dk>.  It can be obtained from frederik.ruc.dk, or the Cornell
+mirror site ftp.cit.cornell.edu in /pub/mac/comm/test.
 
 There is also an NNTP-based netnews reader for Symbolics Lisp Machines
 (under Genera 7) available for anonymous FTP from ucbvax.berkeley.edu
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