Package Name:   SNews
Latest Version: 1.91
Last updated:   August 1993
Developer/Author: 
                John McCombs  (1.12)
                Email: john@ahuriri.gen.nz

                Michael Studte (1.9)
                Email: michael@izumi.dialix.oz.au

                Daniel Fandrich (1.91)
                Email: dan@fch.wimsey.bc.ca  or  CompuServe: 72365,306

News Support:   Yes

Price:          Free -- distributed under GNU Public License

Availability:   Anonymous FTP:
                   DOS executables
                        ftp.wimsey.com:~ftp/pub/msdos/uupc/snews191.zip
                   OS/2 executables
                        ftp.wimsey.com:~ftp/pub/msdos/uupc/snws191o.zip
                   Source code
                        ftp.wimsey.com:~ftp/pub/msdos/uupc/snws191s.zip

Support:        "Yes, but only after you've tried hard yourself"

Source code available:  Yes -- Borland C source included in distribution

System requirements:
                OS/2 boxes running UUCP/extended
                DOS boxes running UUCP/extended
                Minimum CPU             8088
                Minimum VID             all (INT 10h BIOS compatible)
                Minimum RAM             120k reading, ~500k unbatching
                Program Disk            200k
                News SPOOL Capability   ~8000 articles/group (limited by RAM)
                OS Version              MS-DOS 2.0 (probably)
                Runs with Windows       in a DOS window
                Serial Support          (via UUPC)
                Max SIO Speed           (via UUPC)

Protocols supported:    
                Uses UUPC/extended for data transport
                Two files per newsgroup storage

Package Blurb:

    'Simple NEWS' is an news add-on for UUPC.  It is designed to handle
    Usenet news as a leaf node, and offers:

      - Threaded news reading.  This allows you to be much more
        selective about what you read, enabling you to cover many more
        newsgroups.

      - When a cross-posted article is read, the news-reader
        marks all the other instances of the article as read, too.

      - Separate rc files are kept for each user which record the individual
        articles that you have seen.  This is in contrast to some readers
        which simply record the highest article number read.

      - Usual range of response facilities: follow-up news, reply by mail,
        forward by mail, save article/thread to disk.

      - The extract function (key "w") saves articles to a user-specified
        file in the UUPC mailbox format (with a header of 20 hex 01's).
        Thus, extracted news articles can be read with the mail program
        later, at the user's convenience.

      - Built-in support for ISO 8859/1/2/3/4/9 character sets (RFC 1341
        and RFC 1342) and a single key interface to the metamail MIME
        decoder (or other user-specified program).

      - Article storage in two files per newsgroup, rather than one file per
        article.  This results in an enormous saving (up to 3:1) in disk
        space on disks with a default cluster size of 4 KB per cluster.

      - Processing of batched compressed or uncompressed news.  Control
        messages are not processed.

      - Duplicate cross-posted articles are killed during the unbatch stage.

      - Post articles are unbatched and uncompressed.  You can only post
        to your 'mailserv' -- you cannot feed another site.  Posting can
        only be done from within the news reader SNews.

      - 'Received date' oriented expire to maintain the news database.

      - Works with UUPC/extended 1.11n or greater.

Msg from Author:

There is also a version of SNews that works with KA9Q rather than
UUPC. It is available from ftp.demon.co.uk as /pub/giles/snews121.zip.
Remember that this version does *not* work with UUPC.

OS/2 port from DOS SNEWS 1.0 by Kai Uwe Rommel (SNEWS /2 ver. 2.0) is also
available.
Email: rommel@jonas.bofe.sub.org  or  rommel@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Requires UUCP/extended OS/2 version