ClariNet Technical / Sysadmin Information

ClariNet General Information

• The ClariNet Administrator's Installation Guide (With configuration info for INN, C News, etc.)
• Information on NNTP feeding and ClariNet feed system
• Query the status of your newsfeed
• The ClariNet Administration Manual
• Download the ClariNet customer site system administrator's kit
• Hints on maintaining a ClariNet subscription
• How to contact ClariNet staff
• About the ClariNet Information Project
• The Newsclip programming language
• The "statnews" newsreading statistics tool (download)

ClariNet Format Information

• Info on ClariNet Graphics/Photo formats and MIME
• Descriptions of special headers in ClariNet news articles
• Proletext Invisible Formatting
  • System description and rationale
  • Language specification

General Net Information Related to ClariNet and Netnews

• The Mime Frequent Asked Questions File
• RFC 1521 The original MIME Specification
• The proposed new draft for the USENET news message format (Includes references to the old format spec, RFC 1036
• RFC977, the original standard for the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP). (Note that most packages now go beyond it.)