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- This is a beta version of Yarn, a suite of programs used to store and
- read USENET news and mail offline. The user manual still needs work.
-
- Features:
-
- An import program inserts USENET articles into a "news base" from
- Simple Offline USENET Packet (SOUP) format. For each newsgroup, you
- specify the number of days to keep articles, after which, an expire
- program deletes them.
-
- The news base stores only one copy of a cross-posted article. The
- news base implementation stores multiple articles per file.
-
- The reader program runs in character mode and has a point and shoot
- style user interface. It presents a list of articles arranged into
- threads by Message-ID and References headers. The reader program
- generates SOUP reply packets.
-
- Multiple users are supported by storing separate configuration files
- for each user.
-
-
- Chin Huang
- cthuang@io.org
-