This is a beta version of PC Yarn, a suite of programs used to store and
read USENET news and mail offline.  The user manual still needs work.

Features:

An import program inserts USENET articles into a "news base" from
Simple Offline USENET Packet (SOUP) format.  For each newsgroup, you
specify the number of days to keep articles, after which, an expire 
program deletes them.

The news base stores only one copy of a cross-posted article.  The
news base implementation stores multiple articles per file.

The reader program runs in character mode and has a point and shoot
style user interface.  It presents a list of articles arranged into
threads by Message-ID and References headers.  The reader program
generates SOUP reply packets.

Score files contain rules to score articles based on matching text
found in the article.  The reader can be set up to not show articles
having scores below a certain threshold.

Multiple users are supported by storing separate configuration files
for each user.


Chin Huang
cthuang@io.org