New, Improved UQWK available

From: Howard Schwartz (theo@ncal.verio.com)
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 11:44:30 -0700 (PDT)

As many of you know, Jeroen Scheerder has written a newer version of the
Uqwk program previously released as version 2.0. His version has undergone
more bug fixes and improvement and is now available as uqwk 2.05 at
the following site:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~js/warez/js-ware.html

I have found this version of uqwk to be much superior to the standard
uqwk version 1.8: It runs faster and more efficiently and has useful
added features, for instance,

o Scoring, so you can filter news BEFORE it arrives on your pc
o nntp authentication
o lots of bugfixes of the original
o Ability to grab news either from a local machine (same computer
uqwk runs on), or from a remote NNTP server
o Good Net Housekeeping Seal of Approval (GNKSA) validation of
usenet messages, done automatically

At my suggestion, Jeroen has included some pre-compiled binaries, ready
to run, for those who might have trouble compiling uqwk from source code,
on their machines. He included versions of uqwk for:
IRIX 5.3 and [4]IRIX 6.2, SunOS 4.1.4, Solaris 2.6 (SunOS 5.6),
Linux 2.0.0 (i80x86 only)

Also available is the GNKSA library, which is/can be compiled into uqwk.
It automatically checks news messages against usenet standards of syntax
header content, etc. This should help prevent yarn's data-base from blowing
up, as it sometimes does when receiving news messages with wierd syntax,
content, or control characters. The gnksa library and sample utilities
are available at:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~js/gnksa/gnksa-tools.html

Finally, for those who never heard of uqwk: It is a Unix command line
program that runs on a Unix shell. It collects and organizes unread news
and mail into a SOUP ``packet'' which can be downloaded to your PC as a
single file, and imported into yarn.