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Package: inn (1.7.2-4)

News transport system `InterNetNews' by the ISC and Rich Salz

INN is Debian's preferred news transport system.

The news transport is the part of the system that stores the articles and the lists of which groups are available and so on, and provides those articles on request to users. It receives news (either posted locally or from a newsfeed site), files it, and passes it on to any downstream sites. Each article is kept for a period of time and then deleted (this is known as `expiry').

By default Debian's INN will install in a fairly simple `local-only' configuration.

In order to make use of the services provided by INN you'll have to use a user-level newsreader program such as trn. The newsreader is the program that fetches articles from the server and shows them to the user, remembering which the user has seen so that they don't get shown again. It also provides the posting interface for the user.

Other Packages Related to inn

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  • dep: cron (>= 3.0pl1-42)
    management of regular background processing
  • dep: grep (>= 2.0-13)
    GNU grep, egrep and fgrep.
  • dep: inewsinn (>= 1.7.2-1)
    NNTP client news injector, from InterNetNews (INN).
  • dep: libc6
    The GNU C library version 2 (run-time files).
  • dep: mail-transport-agent
    virtual package provided by exim, sendmail, smail, ssmtp, zmailer
  • dep: time
    The GNU time command.
  • sug: innfeed
    This is the new INN feeder program `innfeed.'
  • sug: pgp
    Package not available

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