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- Sterling Software is proud to announce a new service, NetNews/CD, which
- makes USENET News available on CD-ROM. Now, with NetNews/CD, the wealth
- of information available via USENET is archived and readily available when
- you need it, not just when it arrives. With NetNews/CD you will be able
- to keep years of USENET News on your shelf so that you can access and
- benefit from it at your convenience.
-
- With nearly 3000 active newsgroups and more being created daily, one of the
- major problems with USENET News has been the massive amounts of data.
- Most sites do not have the disk space to store it all on a daily basis,
- let alone a yearly basis. Those that do receive a full feed are forced to
- use relatively short news expire times to free up disk space for incoming
- daily news. Many sites have had to limit the number of groups they
- subscribe to due to the speeds of their modems, the costs of long distance
- phone calls to an upstream USENET feed or the size of the available disk
- space. NetNews/CD solves these problems by making nearly 600 Megabytes of
- USENET news available on CD-ROM each month.
-
- The purpose of the NetNews series is to assure that the valuable
- information which passes through USENET daily is not lost, as is the case
- in most newsgroups today. The monthly CDs are generated on the first of
- each month.
-
- Yearly subscribers receive 12 months of USENET news on CD-ROM and they also
- receive the yearly NetGems special issue. The current NetGems CD-ROM
- contains the X Window System Version 11 Release 5 sources, the Free
- Software Foundation's GNU software as well as the USENET comp.sources.*
- archives. It also contains alt.sources and vmsnet.sources archives.
- Besides those archives, NetGems also contains an archive of the Request
- For Comments (RFCs) available from the NIC which are the basis for most of
- the existing Internet protocols. The software and RFCs on the NetGems CD
- were gathered on December 29, 1991.
-
- X11R5 - X Window System Release 5, Patchlevel 8
- gnu - GNU software
- rfcs - Request For Comments
- usenet - USENET News source archives
- alt.sources, alt.sources.amiga,
- alt.sources.patches, comp.archives,
- comp.archives.admin, comp.sources.3b1,
- comp.sources.amiga, comp.sources.apple2,
- comp.sources.atari.st, comp.sources.bugs,
- comp.sources.games, comp.sources.hp48,
- comp.sources.mac, comp.sources.misc,
- comp.sources.reviewed, comp.sources.sun,
- comp.sources.unix, comp.sources.x,
- news.answers, unix-pc, u3b.sources,
- vmsnet.sources
-
- Specifics:
-
- Initially NetNews/CD will be distributed for Sun platforms with ISO 9660
- support becoming available in March. The January and February CDs will
- be made available in ISO 9660 format at that time. NetNews/CD is
- available in both a yearly subscription or monthly issue rate.
-
- Costs:
-
- Yearly subscription + NetGems - $349.95 US plus shipping.
- Individual monthly issues - $39.95 US plus shipping.
- NetGems, Best of '91 - $49.95 US plus shipping.
-
- Volume discounts are available.
-
- Shipping: NetGems begins shipping the first week in February, and January's
- NewNews/CD begins shipping on February 15. Subsequent monthly CDs are
- being shipped on the 15th of each month.
-
- Phone inquiries concerning orders and technical support questions may be
- made between 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM CST, Monday through Friday at
- 1-800-643-NEWS (or 1-800-643-6397). The FAX number is 1-402-291-4362.
- There is also an Internet electronic mail address:
-
- cdnews@sterling.com or uunet!sparky!cdnews
-
- The US Mail address is
-
- Sterling Software
- NetNews/CD
- 1404 Fort Crook Road South
- Bellevue, NE 68005-2969
-
- If you have any suggestions or comments we want to hear them. Please feel
- free to call, write or send email.
-
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