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The DNews News Server is an
advanced Internet (USENET) NNTP news server
software. It is easy-to-use, fully
functional, high speed server software which in
conjunction with any NNTP newsreader software
allows users to create and participate in
Internet (USENET) news groups over the Internet
or your own local news/discussion groups on your
own TCP/IP-based network.
A news server is the thing your
PC news reader connects to when you read news . A
news server performs two main tasks - it
transfers news items around the world efficiently
and presents an NNTP reading interface for use by
news reader software.
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If you are an Internet
service provider your customers expect you to
offer fast access to USENET news groups.You may
also want to host discussion forums just for your
customers.
DNews is very easy to install
and manage, installation and setup taking about
half an hour. Because DNews has been designed to
run unattended it is very stable and requires
virtually no ongoing administration time. This
means your ongoing overhead in both staff time
and cost is very low with DNews and your users
enjoy a very reliable service.
Because of its advanced design
DNews can take a full news feed significantly
faster than other news servers and it's easy to
install a large spool array. This means it is
suitable for any sized operation, but more
importantly that it is designed to handle the
projected increase in news volume if the current
growth rate in USENET news continues over the
next few years while many other news server
software is already struggling with today's
volumes.
For small ISP's the dynamic
sucking feed (unique to the DNews Server) can be
an option that can offer significant advantages.
By dynamically responding to readers the server
gets and maintains only those news groups that
are actively read by your users, allowing you to
provide all the benefits of the full feed to your
users while avoiding the investment in bandwidth
and disk space required by a full feed.(Note: the
dynamic feed works best with less than 2000
users, and is also of limited value if you are
taking binary news groups) DNews also supports a
combination of dynamic and full feeds, this
allows you to add special interest groups like
Microsoft.public.*and Borland news groups
directly onto your server.
DNews News Server is designed
to run on a wide range of operating systems so
you can run it on whatever system you are most
happy with and freely transfer from one platform
to another if the need arises.
DNews News Server is well
documented and commercially supported so if you
do have a problem there are experts to solve it
quickly.
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If you are an organization
connecting to the Internet significant
performance improvements can be obtained by
installing DNews News Server on your own local
network. This provides your users with full
access to this valuable Internet resource which
was previously unavailable or if available often
frustratingly slow.
If you are taking a full news
feed the DNews news server will do that more
efficiently and significantly faster than other
news server software. But for the majority of
businesses it is the DNews servers unique dynamic
news feeding option that delivers enormous
benefits and for most businesses is a far
superior feed option. Taking a full news feed
requires taking 1000's of news groups that are
probably never or only occasionally read by any
of your users, an alternative is to decide on a
subgroup of news groups you will get. The first
approach is enormously wasteful of resources, the
second option requires the ongoing administration
of maintaining the selection to meet users
requests and frequently becomes a source of
frustration for users , your ISP and busy
administrators. The dynamic feed mechanism you
can use with DNews automatically monitors and
reflects users reading habits and dynamically
gets and maintains only those groups that readers
actually read. From the users perspective he has
all the advantages of a full news feed. From the
administrators view there is no ongoing
administration required and the server is only
dealing with possibly a few hundred active groups
at any time saving 95% of the resources a full
news feed would require.
The unique dynamic sucking feed
mechanism
Even for small organizations
and work groups the DNews News Server is still
the most economic option. The Dynamic news feed
can be used to maintains your disk and bandwidth
usage at the lowest possible level to meet your
need, this means it is often not necessary to
invest in additional memory or
hardware.Additionally DNews News server is able
to operate over slower lines. This means you do
not have to lease a more expensive fast
connection to provide a good news service.
Because DNews News Server is
designed to run unattended and because it
automatically reflects users reading habits there
is virtually no on going management requirement
of the news service and users can read whatever
groups they need within your business policy.
This is important as the last thing you need is
news service that absorbs your time.
Having your own local news
server will allow you to create your own local
news/discussion groups for assess or the Internet
or over your own network. Because discussion
groups provide a unique vehicle for interactive
group collaboration and the distribution of
information and files they have become popular
within organizations of all kinds.
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What about other features ?
DNews news server incorporates
all the features you would expect in an advanced
news server softwareincluding: GUI management,
intelligent expiration, full access control,and
xover support.
Is there documentation and
support if I need it?
Yes, DNews News Server comes
with an easy to read User Manual and email
support is available for help with installation
and management. DNews is also featured in a
number of books.
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DNews News Server can be run
for one user using 5-10Mb of disk space on a
dialup line, a hundred users can be supported on
100MB- 200MB or thousands of users using 1
Gigabyte of disk space on a T1 Internet
connection.
DNews News Server can be used
as a replacement for CNEWS or INN and will out
perform them in all important aspects.
The DNews News Server can
perform where other servers can't. It can run on
lines slower than 128Kbps down to14.4Kbps and on
PC's with only 10 MBb of RAM with 100 Mb of free
disk space.
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YES!
We encourage people to try
DNews News Server for themselves on their own
systems and make their own evaluation and
comparisons. But be warned our experience is once
you and your users experience DNews News Server
you won't be able to give it up. Installation is
simple, to install DNews News Server on your
system NOW for a free trial period go to Download
and FTP instructions.
DNews News server is now being
used by large companies and Universities all over
the world, including major companies like Novell,
Digital and major Universities like California
Institute of Technology and The University of
Tokyo.It is the choice of Internet service
providers all over the world.
By posting and reading messages
users can run or participate in multiple
discussion groups involving multiple participants
who may be geographically remote. Postings are
displayed in the context of prior discussion.
This allows new participants joining a discussion
to follow the whole discussion from its
inception.
These electronic discussion
groups provide opportunities and benefits to
individuals and organizations by facilitating
efficient access to and communication between
individuals and groups to meet business or
personal objectives.Internet discussion groups
can provide individuals and organizations a
vehicle to find and develop relationships with
experts, suppliers, customers and other business
contacts anywhere in the world at virtually no
cost.
There are over 10,000 public
news groups on the Internet you can use and
participate in. You can add a new public news
group if there is sufficient support. With your
own news server you can create your own news
groups accessible over the Internet or your local
network for your own purposes for access by
specific groups of people within your
organization and/or external to it.
With the ability each member
has to attach documents and files for
distribution to other group members,these groups
have unlimited options to share and exchange
information and knowledge.
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