PC Yarn offline mail and news reader
PC Yarn is a suite of programs for your personal computer, used to store
and read USENET news and mail downloaded from a USENET host.
The supported platforms are MS-DOS character mode, OS/2 character mode
and Windows 95 console mode.
Features
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An import program inserts USENET articles into a "news base" from
Simple Offline USENET Packet (SOUP) format.
For each newsgroup, you specify the number of days to keep articles,
after which, an expire program deletes them.
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The news base stores only one copy of a cross-posted article.
The news base implementation stores multiple articles per file.
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A mail filter moves incoming mail to specific folders or deletes incoming
mail based on user defined rules.
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The reader program runs in character mode and has a point and shoot
style user interface.
It presents a list of articles arranged into
threads by Message-ID and References headers.
The reader program generates SOUP reply packets.
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Score files contain rules to score articles based on matching text
found in the article.
The reader can be set up to not show articles
having scores below a certain threshold.
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Multiple users are supported by storing separate configuration files
for each user.
Availability
You can download the software from this server.
Where To Get Help
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