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NNTPCache is Squid for news (plus lots more).
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NNTPCache (very efficiently, using shared memory, COW, mmaps, etc)
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executes on the localhost pretending to be an NNRP news reading
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server. In fact, what it does is pass certain NNTP commands through
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to real (remote and possibly local) news-servers based on various
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pattern matching rules. nntpcache then takes the output from those
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servers and caches & indexes it in funky ways (much specific case
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magic goes into this). The next time such information is asked
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for, or other information which can be logically inferred from the
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previously collated information, it is sent directly from the cache,
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without consulting the remote servers. NNTPCache can transparently
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merge multiple servers, (permiting local newsgroups with remote
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NNTP feeds), filter articles, xovers, and headers based on weighted
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regular expressions, and has built in NoCem/PGP (anti-spam) support
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(see www.nntpcache.org/www.nocem.org for details).
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