Tested News Readers

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].