discusses these issues in greater detail.
7.0 References
[1] Kantor, B and P. Lapsley, "Network News Transfer Protocol", RFC
977, February 1986.
[2] Limoncelli, Tom, "Read This Before You Write a Newsreader",
http://mars.superlink.net/tal/news-software-authors.html, June,
1996.
[3] Horton, M. and R. Adams, "Standard for interchange of USENET
messages", RFC1036, December 1987.
[4] Salz, Rich, Manual Page for wildmat(3) from the INN 1.4
distribution, UUNET Technologies, Revision 1.10, April, 1992.
[5] Robertson, Rob, "FAQ: Overview database / NOV General
Information", ftp://ftp.uu.net/networking/news/nntp/inn/faq-
nov.Z, January, 1995.
[6] Lea, Iain, "FAQ about the TIN newsreader",
http://www.cs.unca.edu/~davidson/handouts/tinfaq.html
[7] Kappesser, Peter, "[news.software.readers] trn newsreader FAQ",
2 parts, ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/news/
software/readers/%5Bnews.software.readers%5D_trn_newsreader
_FAQ%2C_part_1%3A_Basics and ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by
-hierarchy/news/software/readers/%5Bnews.software.readers
%5D_trn_news-reader_FAQ%2C_part_2%3A_Advanced, February, 1995.
[8] Meyers, J., "IMAP4 Authentication Mechanisms", RFC1731,
December 1994.
[9] Mills, D., "Network Time Protocol (Version 3), Specification,
Implementation and Analysis", RFC1305, March 1992.
8.0 Notes
DEC is a registered trademark of Compaq Computer Corporation. UNIX
is a registered trademark of The Open Group. VMS is a registered
trademark of Compaq Computer Corporation.
9.0 Acknowledgments
The author gratefully acknowledges the comments and additional
information provided by the following individuals:
Wayne Davison <davison@armory.com>
Chris Lewis <clewis@bnr.ca>
Tom Limoncelli <tal@lucent.com>
Eric Schnoebelen <eric@egsner.cirr.com>
Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>
This work was precipitated by the work of various newsreader authors
and newsserver authors which includes those listed below:
Rick Adams -- Original author of the NNTP extensions to the RN
newsreader and last maintainer of Bnews
Stan Barber -- Original author of the NNTP extensions to the
newsreaders that are part of Bnews.
Geoff Collyer -- Original author of the OVERVIEW database proposal and
one of the original authors of CNEWS
Dan Curry -- Original author of the xvnews newsreader
Wayne Davison -- Author of the first threading extensions to the
RN newsreader (commonly called TRN).
Geoff Huston -- Original author of ANU NEWS
Phil Lapsey -- Original author of the UNIX reference
implementation
Iain Lea -- Original maintainer of the TIN newsreader
Chris Lewis -- First known implementor of the AUTHINFO GENERIC
extension
Rich Salz -- Original author of INN
Henry Spencer -- One of the original authors of CNEWS
Kim Storm -- Original author of the NN newsreader
10.0 Author's Address
Stan Barber
P.O. Box 300481
Houston, Texas, 77230
EMail: sob@academ.com
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