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NewsCache is a free cache server for USENET News available under the GNU
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General Public License. NewsCache can be plugged in between your news
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reader(s) and your news server. NewsCache acts to news readers like a news
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server and retrieves news articles from the news server like a news reader.
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Whenever, a client requests an article from NewsCache, NewsCache checks
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whether the article has already been stored in the cache area. If this is
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the case, the article is sent directly to its client. Otherwise, the article
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is requested from the upstream news server, stored in the cache area and sent
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back to the client.
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NewsCache provides the following functionality:
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* Offline news reading.
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* Small articles are stored within a single database. This improves
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performance and reduces the number of inodes used of your system.
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* The overview-database is generated on the fly for articles already
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cached by the cache server.
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* This reduces the amount of disk space used, but decreases performance
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slightly.
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* The newsgroup-database is now managed as an array instead of a list to
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allow direct access to articles.
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* Merging different news servers to a virtual feed (on a per newsgroup
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basis).
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