Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!uunet!bionet!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cmcl2!phri!mcclb0.med.nyu.edu!smith From: smith@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu Newsgroups: bionet.general Subject: Re: News software (was Re: DNA and Protein Sequencing Workshop) Message-ID: <1991Feb15.145214.6985@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu> Date: 15 Feb 91 19:52:14 GMT References: <1991Feb15.000728.26425@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Organization: NYU Medical Center, New York, NY, USA Lines: 20 In article <1991Feb15.000728.26425@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>, gilbertd@cricket.bio.indiana.edu (Don Gilbert) writes: > Just some 2 cents on the subject of newsreaders for VMS. I missed the > original post. We have ANU-NEWs (an old version) running on Iubio. > We get an NNTP feed{from a local Unix newsbox, and need to store only > bionet groups as read. The disk space used by this is about 5 megabytes > including ANU-NEWs software. I don't keep up with the current capabilities > of ANU-NEWS, but it likely can be configured to serve out news to other > vaxes (and personal computers?) via NNTP protocols. ANU-NEWS V6.0-2 is now available. It can be run as a newsreader only, which makes it a very usefull to sites with small disks. There are also other news programs available, but we are very pleased with ANU-NEWS. Note that old (i.e. pre-V6.0) versions do not support the 'diskless' NNTP newsreader function +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Ross Smith, Cell Biology, NYU Medical Center, 550 First Ave., NYC, 10016| |Phone: (212) 263-5356: FAX: (212) 263-8139 (Alternate NYUMC) (212) 263-7190| |E-Mail: SMITH@NYUMED.BITNET (BITNET), SMITH@MCCLB0.MED.NYU.EDU (Internet)| +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+