It provides the general infrastructure required for running a News service (also known as NetNews, UseNet, etc). In particular, it provides the processing and storage handling, together with some of the transport mechanisms (see also the NNTP package). It also contains the NOV indexing package (which is also available separately). It does not include the user interface programs. See tin and xrn for two possible such. Also see INN for an alternative news processing system.
