Introduction

sonews aims to be a RCF3977 compliant NNTP Usenet server. It is written in modern Java and uses a database management system as backend (currently PostgreSQL and MySQL). sonews is highly multithreaded and uses Java Virtual Threads to handle thousands of cosncurrent connections with ease.

sonews is Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 3 (or later).

Ancestor of sonews is the Neat NNTP Daemon (n3tpd) although there is very little code in sonews that can be identified as direct derivation. sonews started as diploma thesis project of Christian Lins at StarOffice development in Hamburg.

Users

OpenOffice.org/StarOffice development located in Hamburg used sonews to mirror the OpenOffice.org mailinglists to the local network. If you are using sonews and want to have a link here, contact the documentation maintainer.

Contributors and sponsors

Maintainer: Christian Lins (contact christian at lins dot me)

See AUTHORS file for a complete list of contributors. The authors thanks Sun Microsystems for fully financing the first version of sonews.