K News Grabber

This is 1.1.3 release of kng. 
It is still unstable ( alpha ) and if you decide to use it, you should realize, 
that you are using it on your own risk. 

Version 1.1.3:

* Scheduling support added.
  To use scheduling, you should have permission to use at. See man 1 at.
* Thumbnail support added.
  But it is very memory intensive.


The second alpha release has following improvements (?):

* You can provide an output directory for your binaries.
  If you do not provide it, all the binaries will be saved to your home dir.
* kng implements a hash table, where it will store the message id's for seven days.
  Duplicate messages will be skipped.
  You can also manually delete the hash table.
* Still has problems with not fully RFC 977 compatible news server implementatiosn 
  such as leafnode.

The first alpha release provided the following:

* processing of different newsgroups ( If more than one, they will be processed
  sequentiell )
* Adding/Deleting/Modifying newsgroups
* most of the binaries are downloaded


What still is not implemented or is buggy:

* Event handling is still not well done.
  ( And still, If I figure out, how they did it in krn, perhaps I will adopt it in kng )
* There is still no documentation
* Only first steps of internationalization done. It is not complete.

What could be implemented if there is request for:
* automatic dialup support. 
* processing of multiple news server
* ...

So the list of todos and plans is long, weekends are short.

I want to thank Michael Kremer, who had the time and the enthusiasm to encourage
me to go on with hacking and provides the mail account.

He also promissd to do the documentation and the Help.

Please mail your complaints and suggestions to:

kng@stuetzpunkt.de ( This may not work. But will be available soon )
Cengiz.Tuztas@uni-essen.de

