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Introduction

Congratulations on your purchase of CoffeeLink News Server! CLNews is an advanced NNTP news server written specifically for Sun Micro System's$^{TM}$ Java$^{TM}$ 1platform. CoffeeLink News Server includes a number of powerful features to make it the ideal discussion server for businesses and organizations:
  • Portability. CoffeeLink News Server is written entirely in Java, allowing it to run on any computer with a JDK 1.1o or 1.2 compatible Java Virtual Machine.

  • Reliability. CoffeeLink News Server is designed to serve news clients 24 hours per day, seven days per week with limited down time. In addition, sophisticated techniques are used to protect the integrity of news messages in the event of an operating system crash.

  • Flexibility. CoffeeLink News Server uses a flexible authorization model that makes it easy to control access to news groups for specific individuals or groups of individuals.

  • Compatibility. CoffeeLink News Server supports the latest draft NNTP standard as well as a number of extensions to provide compatibility with existing news clients. Your users can select from a variety of news clients including Netscape Communicator, Microsoft Outlook, and a variety of freeware clients.

  • Affordability. Unlike other commercial news servers which charge based on number of simultaneous connections, CoffeeLink News Server charges no per-user license fees.


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