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The following news readers have been tested for their compatibility
with the News Cache:
- Gnus
- works without any problems with the News Cache.
- Netscape
- issues the GROUP command for every newsgroup
to get a better estimation for the number of news articles within
the newsgroup. Hence we optimized the News Cache´s active database
to make this delay unnoticeably small.
- Tin
- works without any problems with the News Cache.
- Xrn
- does not work in the current release, because it uses the
XHDR command that currently has not been implemented. This command
has not been implemented yet, because we did not know that it is
still being used. The XHDR command has not been available
within the last NNTP Internet draft of common NNTP
extensions. However in the new draft this command has been explained
again [Bar97].
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