MetaNews the meta news server - Summary
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<b>What is MetaNews?</b>
MetaNews is a kind of news server.
<b>Is MetaNews another news server like INN?</b>
No, MetaNews doesn't store any articles like INN but only makes links on them.
<b>Is MetaNews better than INN?</b>
This is a bad question because MetaNews can't work without news servers like INN (where articles are really stored). MetaNews and INN doesn't do the same thing.
<b>What does MetaNews do?</b>
MetaNews automatically search, since a free news server, other free news servers. These servers are all referenced with their groups and articles. Then, it is possible for a user to acces this different groups from different servers as if it was only one news server.
<b>Is MetaNews expensive?</b>
No, MetaNews is Free Software and is under the GNU General Public Licence. It's possible to download it from this site.
<b>Does MetaNews need a strong machine to run?</b>
Since MetaNews is a distributed application, you can either run it on a strong machine or on several little machines.
the last home page is http://www.eudil.fr/metanews/
Registration Date: Thu 03 Oct 2002 09:16:32 AM UTC
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
Development Status: 2 - Pre-Alpha
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