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Linux-Announce Digest #43

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Fri Nov 23 01:13:12 2001

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Linux-Announce Digest #43, Volume #4           Fri, 23 Nov 2001 01:13:06 EST

Contents:
  Major Linux event planned in Bangalore, India (Frederick Noronha)
  Indian/South Asian contribution to GNU/Linux... (Frederick Noronha)
  innuendod R0 released (Jason Nunn)

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Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 00:07:59 CST
From: Frederick Noronha <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: Major Linux event planned in Bangalore, India

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Hello

Let me introduce myself. I am Mahendra, currently the coordinator of 
the Bangalore Linux Users' Group ( BLUG ). 

On behalf of the BLUG I would like to invite you to :

Linux Bangalore/2001
http://linux-bangalore.org/2001

An Applied Technology Conference
For Developers, Administrators, Users and IT Decision Makers

Date : 10th, 11th and 12th December 2001

Venue : J N Tata Auditorium, 
        Opposite Indian Institute of Science ( IISc. )
        Bangalore, India

Registration : Free

Linux Bangalore/2001 is a three day conference on understanding 
and using Linux technologies. This conference aims to cover a 
large number of areas that include core Linux technologies, 
Open Source, Embedded Systems and other allied technologies.

On the whole we are planning to give 72 talks over a period of 
3 days. 

This is an event for the Linux Community by the Linux Community.

Since this is an event for and by Linux users, the entire BLUG 
invites all of you to participate in the event and help us in the 
planning, organisation and execution of the event, as well as 
participating on both sides of the speaker podiums!  

Delegates can obtain their passes from the site through our 
Conference Delegate Registration System ( CDRS ). 

Preliminary information is already up at http://linux-bangalore.org/2001,
and more information is being added by the hour. A discussion group has
also been started.

If you wish to discuss about the event please join us at 
linux-bangalore-2001@yahoogroups.com

The entire BLUG looks forward to your participation.

See you at Linux Bangalore/2001,

For more information in the Talks, Tracks and latest developments,
please visit http://linux-bangalore.org/2001

Thankyou

Mahendra M
coordinator@linux-bangalore.org

Co ordinators are requested to forward this mail to their LUG mailing lists.


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Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 00:08:07 CST
From: Frederick Noronha <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: Indian/South Asian contribution to GNU/Linux...


Hi all! My search for the Indian / South Asian contribution to GNU/Linux has
been progressing nicely. Thanks to all of you!

This seems to be an exciting subject. Since so many of you on this list have
shared information so generously with me, I would like to pass it back to
all on this list.

Below is a very preliminary summary of some initial findings. If I have left
out anyone you know, please do inform me. It would be great if we could
conduct this in an 'open/free research' kind of format.

The aim is not only to document the Indian and South Asian contribution to
GNU/Linux, but also to map what is possible, what can be done, and hopefully
inspire other talented programmers to go the free software/open source way.

This work is supported by Sarai <www.sarai.net> of New Delhi.

Use this information freely; only credit those who offered the initial
inputs. 

Your feedback / brickbats are awaited. FN

*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
Frederick Noronha | Freelance Journalist | 784 Saligao 403511 Goa India
Ph [0091] 832.409490 or 832.409783 Cell 9822 12.24.36 fred@bytesforall.org
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Some of the work being done on the GNU/Linux front by Indians/South Asians
or people of South Asian origin worldwide includes:

* anjuta-0.1.6 stable has been released by Naba Kumar
  http://news.gnome.org/997515902/index_html#997549720

* Free Software Foundation (India) work on programs to be undertaken
  Localisation of Free Softwares Contact Arun <arun@freedevelopers.net>
  Free Software in Education 
     Making a special CD of Debian GNU/Linux for College Education, 
     Making a similar CD (ofcourse with a different set of
     applications) for School Going Kids.
  Development of E-Learning tools.
     Prof Nagarjuna is already working on this.
  Free Software Education.
     Training programs on Free Software tools.

* Hurd: Rajkumar S <raj2569@yahoo.com> writes that they are beginning to
work on a small lab for Hurd set up at the FD India office.

* Indianisation of Linux
  vivek achary <v_i_v_1@yahoo.com> points to the website
  http://www.tenet.res.in/Donlab/Indlinux/ and says "These guys
  are_already_offering Indian language support from_the kernel_up, not as an
  add-on that is stuck on top of the OS. IndLinux offers console fonts, text
  (emacs, vim, pine,...) even gcc (u can write c programs in Indian languages) 
  More details below...

* M.P.Anand Babu <ab@gnu-india.org> is offering students interested ideas
  for projects in Free Software. He writes: "I have lot of projects in (my)
  TODO list. If you find anybody looking for projects, please forward them
  to me, I will guide them and get it completed."

*  GNU Messenger:  by ab, Bala, Mridul Jain, Parag Mehta, Jeffrin GNU
   Messenger for Yahoo services with a console based geeky readline and
   guile interface. It started a fun project, but today its production
   ready. Main motivation behind the project is to spread the power of GUILE
   and READLINE librady.

*  Cool Hurd Translators: Translator itself is cool concept in GNU/Hurd. 
   Here are some translators written by college students in this list:
   
   * bzip2 translator: Ankur, Shikka and Venkat wrote this translator. This
   when mapped on a file, you can do bzip compressed I/O.
   
   * reverse translator: Written by Ramesh. When mapped to a file, what ever
   you write to it, you can read the reverse of them.  

   * Tar file system translator: Again by Ramesh. Ramesh got the name
   "Tarzen" because of this TAR project. You can mount a tar file as file
   system using this translator. This project is still in initial
   stages.

   * Quote translator:
   You can map this as ur .signature, /etc/issues, /etc/motd 
   and so on and get random quotes on the fly. Every time 
   when you read from this file, you get random quotes from
   its database.

   * Visual Emacs Calculator: by Pradhap This is written in Emacs Lisp. He
   is currently busy with MP3 player for GNU Emacs.

   * MiG -> CORBA: By Mridul Jain and ab MiG is obsolete interface and Mach
   Specific. This project replaces MiG with CORBA standards to make GNU/Hurd
   language independent and distributed. This is extremely big project.

   * Linux Device Drivers Emulation in Hurd Space: By ab, Bala and Mridul
   Emulating Linux Device Drivers in user space. GNU Mach is only a micro
   kernel. Santhanu Goel emulated Linux SCSI and Network drivers inside GNU
   Mach. But GNU Mach bloats up in size and loses the Mirco Kernel stature. 
   But by bringing the drivers to user space we have lots of advantages like
   system stability, modularization ease of development/maintainability.

   * Porting Netfilter to Hurd By ab Netfilter is NAT/Firewall framework in
   Linux 2.4.x kernel. This should be ported to GNU Hurd/Pfinet.  Hurd's
   TCP/IP stack is derived from Linux kernel and because of that porting
   Netfilter to Hurd shouldn't be difficult.

   * GNU/Hurd Distribution: By gnu-india.org team.  We have stopped this
   project, because Philip Charles <philipc@copyleft.co.nz> is doing it
   better. But still we continue the 3rd CD of this project. This CD is
   named "4-hackers" contains valuable documentation for GNU OS Hacking.

   * GNU Geek: by Visu and Nagappan GNU Geek is GNU [G]eek [E]nabled [E]ntry
   [K]it Geek is a highly extensible framework for building console based
   data entry tools.  is powered by GUILE and READLINE. Info from M.P.Anand
   Babu <ab@gnu-india.org> for all the above projects. 

* Mukund Deshmukh of Beta Computronics <betacomp@nagpur.dot.net.in> writes
  in to say: "Please look at my IVRS module at
  http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=ivrs This is module is
  very popular among the people who want to build up low cost IVRS using
  external modem. I usually get 20-25 mails from all part of world per
  month. A rough estimate is around 1000 IVRS installations are using this
  module. I am based in Nagpur, India." Web site - http://betacomp.com

* Kinglsey informs us of some projects: 
  Anjuta from http://anjuta.sourceforge.net/ 
  Simputer project http://simputer.org/ 
  Raju Mathur's VishwaKarma (kandalaya.org) 
  Dr Tarique's wap library in PHP (".. it wouldn't fall into the purely
  linux category but definitely indicates use of linux in india!)

* Check out the LIFE (Linux in Education) mailing list
  LIFE@mm.hbcse.tifr.res.in
  http://mm.hbcse.tifr.res.in/mailman/listinfo/life

* FSF-locale@gnu.org.in (localisation) mailing list!
  To post to this list, send your email to: fsf-locale@gnu.org.in
  General information about the mailing list is at:
  http://gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-locale

* Abhas Abhinav <abhas@deeproot.co.in> writes in to say: "I've got some
  great news for you! Kernel.org.in (remember?) is up and running now - and
  so is our upgraded web site... We are currently mirroring kernel.org and
  gnu.org ftp areas - but a lot more sites are in the pipeline - this
  includes linux documentation project, ibiblio archives, samba and apache
  projects, vim, rpmfind and more. The smaller ones might be possible pretty
  early, but others will take time and investment. Please do visit
  http://www.kernel.org.in for more details.

* IBM invited student to participate in the Linux Scholar Challenge contest,
  where they can solve real-world issues and learn how to improve today's
  open source environment.  For this contest, students will select a Linux
  project; describe their objectives, methodology, research and results in a
  three-page paper; and submit it for evaluation. Students may register
  online at http://www.ibm.com/university/linuxchallenge 
  The response from India was "very encouraging", according to
  IBM ASEAN/South Asia Linux Manager Mukul Mathur <mmathru@in.ibm.com>
  He said around 275 entries were received from India alone.
  Contact: Kavitha Shankar, Community Relations Manager, Developer Relations
  shkavith@in.ibm.com

* Pappu <pappu46@mailandnews.com> says: "There is a team of programmers lead
  by M P Anand Babu <ab@gnu-india.org> working on many important parts of
  the HURD, which is a replacement for the *nix kernel." 
  <http://www.gnu-india.org>

* Parag Mehta <pm@gnuos.org> announced recently: "i hv just released the
  gnuyahoo-0.1 beta release on sf.net and hv announced it on freshmeat.net. 
  let me know if anything else needs to be done."

* Ramakrishnan M <rkrishnan@ti.com> suggestions that in the aftermath of
  September 11, it is very likely that US exporting laws will become more
  strict as regard to the cryptography publishing in the form of papers or
  books or software. "I would like to request *everyone* who have access to
  the internet to start downloading as much 'cryptography software source
  code' as possible and also announce them on this list. We will have to
  find a mirror in India to host this software...." To start with, please
  have a look at http://www.cryptography.org ... and
  http://munitions.vipul.net/

* Radhakrishnan CV <radi@freedevelopers.net> announces that the GNU/Linux
  system can now support Malayalam. He writes: "Today a team of developers
  in FreeDevelopers.net (India) have successfully implemented Malayalam
  support in Pango and an input module for gtk which can support
  Hellingman's Malayalam Transliteration Schema. Jeroen Hellingman is the
  man who wrote a TeX package, input scheme and a free Malayalam font using
  Metafont language. However, the metafont sources can only create rastor
  fonts that are fit for usage in a TeX system, we need to write our own
  fonts for using in GNU/Linux. The software used are gtk+-1.3.5,
  pango-0.16. The sources will be released soon. A screen shot can be had
  at: http://www.tugindia.org.in/malayalam/malayalam.jpg Its is just in
  alpha stage and you can expect a few bugs. Comments are welcome.
  Congratulations to the young developers of FD (India)."

* Hardware compatibility: Richard M Stallman <rms@gnu.org> recently wrote in
  to say "My friend Ramakrishnan has volunteered to prepare a list of
  devices normally available with assembled PC makers for which Free drivers
  are available. Once prepared he is planning to send it to FSFI.  I request
  FSFI to host this list in their web site & keep it upto date so that we
  don't fall into the trap of devices with non-free drivers. This is a very
  useful project to work on."
 
* Naba Kumar <kh_naba@yahoo.com> explains his project thus: "Anjuta is a
  versatile Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for C and C++ on
  GNU/Linux. It has been written for GTK/GNOME, and features a number of
  advanced programming facilities. These include project management,
  application wizards, an on board interactive debugger, and a powerful
  source editor with source browsing and syntax highlighting. Anjuta is an
  effort to marry the flexibility and power of text-based command-line tools
  with the ease-of-use of the GNOME graphical user interface. That is why it
  has been made as user-friendly as possible. At present, Anjuta is only a
  beta release and lots of work needs to be done to improve it. In the
  future, Anjuta is going to be much more capable and stable! Extensive
  debugging has not yet been performed, so at the moment it will,
  undoubtedly, have lots of bugs."

* More from Naba Kumar: "As for the other indian based application, I can
  tell only one from the gnome community. I don't have any idea about other
  communities. Peacock is an text based HTML editor written by Archit Baweja
  <bighead@crosswinds.net>. He is from delhi. You can contact him to get the
  details about the application. You will also find him hanging around
  irc.gimp.com #gnome sometimes. In fact, I came to know about him from
  there only. The website for peacock is http://peacock.sourceforge.net "

* RMS <rms@gnu.org> was asked by FN in an email interview: In the West, the
  emphasis on 'free' software stresses the 'free' as in freespeech. In the
  countries of the Third World, would the 'free beer' approach also be as
  important, since for many here the costs of software is a real
  insurmountable problem?  
  His reply: The principal importance of free software is that it respects
  your freedom.  This is important for computer users everywhere.  Free
  software means you are free to run the program, free to study the program
  and change it to suit your needs, free to redistribute copies, and free to
  publish an improved version.  In other words, you are free to participate
  in a user community where people treat each other with kindness and
  helpfulness.  Free software provides a secondary benefit which is also
  important in countries such as India, where there are many people who can
  just barely afford a computer.  Namely, users can save on license fees by
  lawfully redistributing copies of software to each other.  But important
  as this is, it is not as important as freedom to live an upright life and
  help your neighbor."

* Writes Chennai-based S.GuruPrasanna <sguruprasanna@yahoo.com>: "it all
  started when i wanted to write my own text based yahoo messenger.  i found
  a library called libyahoo that helps to connect with the Yahoo server. i
  also found a text based yahoo messenger from sourceforge.net.  when i
  tried to go through the source code of that messenger, it was very
  difficult for me to go through the source code (C code) of some 100 pages
  containing lot of functions.  I thought that it would be useful if i have
  a tool that converts the entire source code as HTML files with all the
  calls to various functions as hyper links. this would lead me to the
  function's code by clicking that link where it is called.  I could not
  find such a tool. So thought of developing it and it is now ezvu (easy
  view).  ezvu reads all the 'C' source files in a directory and generates a
  HTML file for each source file. The resulting HTML file contains the
  userdefined function calls converted to hyper link that leads to the
  function definition. This helps the user/developer to browse through
  other's source very easily without having to take the hardcopies (it is my
  way, donno abt others) of the entire source and jumping between pages to
  keep track of the function calls."

* Thanks to S.GuruPrasanna  for some useful links
  to: T.Venkataramanan tvenki@yahoo.com (ICQ Implemenatation For Linux).
  Sankara Narayanan ssnary_22@lycos.com 
  maya_yakshini@yahoo.com

* Anand Babu ab@gnu-india.org put me in touch with the persons below to
  dig out some information on localisation (Indianisation) of Linux.
  * Mahesh Jayachandra <Peacock_solutions@hotmail.com>
  * Radhakrishnan CV <cvr@tugindia.org.in>

* Ravi Rao <ravi@symonds.net> generously offered links to
  Ashish Gulhati. See http://netropolis.org/
  See also http://www.metlin.f2s.com/

* Boston-based Avinash Chopde <avinash@acm.org> says of his project: "It is
  over 10 years old, and I don't work on it anymore, it is just a general
  Unix app, made freeware way before too many people were doing freeware
  software :-) " Check http://www.aczone.com/ to know more about his work. 

  ISongs this is not software, but a collection of Indian Film Song Lyrics
  - that Chopde started years ago, it is still being added to, and all songs
  are sent in by Indians...

  "I don't know of Indians in this field, but here are some pointers: KDE -
  probably the best GUI and Desktop Management System out there, improving
  by bounds, has someone named Narendra Umanee doing some major work - he
  may be an Indian."

* From Nagpur, Swati Sani <swati@sanisoft.com> reminds us: "Hello Frederick,
  I know that you are well aware of the contributions made by SANIsoft and
  its programmers. Just for the sake of completeness I would like to list
  our Open Source projects 1) WAPpop 2) RtoD 3) of_cal 4) Scorpio."

* Binand Raj S <binand@cysphere.com> says: "One programmer I know - Philip
  Tellis - <philip@konark.ncst.ernet.in>. He is the author of httptype,
  http://www.ncst.ernet.in/~philip/downloads/httptype. Used at
  http://www.biznix.org/surveys, for example."

* Udhay Shankar N <udhay@pobox.com> offers links to Indian GNU/Linux geeks:
  Abhijeet Menon-Sen <ams@wiw.org>
  Ashish Gulhati <hash@netropolis.org>
  Vipul Ved Prakash <mail@vipul.net>
  Raj Mathur <raju@kandalaya.org>

* Prabhu Ramachandran <prabhu@cyberwaveindia.com>, an old friend, tells of
  his own pet project, as he calls it: "Its a scientific data visualizer
  called MayaVi.  Look here: http://mayavi.sourceforge.net and here:
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/mayavi for details.  This project is
  something that I personally created.  I know that it has users all over
  the world." 
  "The other projects that I am involved with are listed below.  These
  projects are not mine (as in I was/am not the person behind it) but I
  contribute to them when I can.  Sometimes the contribution can be very
  small."
  Besides, Prabhu is a VTK developer (VTK is the Visualization toolkit that
  is an OSS, high level, extremely powerful, visualization library).  More
  details here: http://public.kitware.com/VTK/
  He is also involved in some of the visualization/gui aspects of the SciPy
  project. http://www.scipy.org This project tries to make the Python
  programming environment into a powerful scientific data processing
  environment (something like matlab).

* Please check this: http://www.tenet.res.in/Donlab/Indlinux/ 
  Indian Language Support for the Linux Operating System

  Almost all the widely available software today is written and documented
  in English, and uses English as the medium to interact with users.  This
  has the advantage of a common language of communication between
  developers, maintainers and users from different countries.  In a country
  like India, an overwhelming majority of the population does not know
  English.  Given this fact, availability of affordable native language
  software will play a crucial role in the process of taking the benefits of
  the "information revolution" to the marginalized sections of society and
  to achieve appropriate social use of information technology.

  Indian language support for Linux operating system is done at two modes,
  namely the Console mode and the X-Windows mode, with mutual compatibility. 
  The requirements on the RAM vary with the mode.  In the console mode the
  RAM requirement is 4 MB while a minimal windows based system requires 6-8
  MB. For the cheapest solution, with minimal configuration of resources,
  the console mode is preferred.  But the comfort and ease of use on GUI
  based applications has prompted the X-Windows based solution, at the cost
  of slightly more resources.

  The native language effort of IndLinux group at the Indian Institute of
  Technology, Madras focusses on providing both the console and X-Windows
  based local language interface for the Linux operating system.  The design
  of the solution for X-Windows mode is based on the work [2] by REC Trichy
  in collaboration with IIT Kanpur.  In either case, the primary goal is to
  enable applications to inherit the interface with no or minimal
  modification.  Further, an application developed in the console-based
  environment must work without requiring any modification in the X
  environment.

  In addition, once support has been developed for a particular language,
  the effort to enable any other Indian language should require only changes
  to the configuration.  To meet this requirement, ISCII [3] in consonance
  with the Inscript keyboard layout has been used.  So that keyboard and
  sound mapping are uniform across all Indian languages.  ISCII includes
  ASCII as a subset.

  Developing a native language interface at an operating system level is a
  better proposition compared to developing it at an application level as
  the former enables all the applications running on top of the operating
  system to inherit the interface.  The choice of Linux as the operating
  system has been motivated by the fact that Linux is a robust and stable
  operatingsystem and free. [FROM THE WEBSITE]

* SIRTAJ SINGH KANG <taj@kde.org> ... Virtual Developer's Gallery . . . E
  1.x projects: HTML widget, KDEHelp, KDisplay, KColorDialog. mjones@kde.org
  Sirtaj Singh Kang 24 years old. Born in New Delhi, India. Living in
  Melbourne, Australia. Traveller, apprentice musician, software engineer,
  and appreciator of classical music and ear-splitting . . Tasks in the
  KDE-Project: karm, kview, korn, kdoc, image file filters, Developers'
  Centre and Holder of Much Opinion.

* The Indian TeX Users Group (TUGIndia) was founded in 1997 to provide
  leadership for users of TeX, Donald Knuth's revolutionary typesetting
  system. It represents the interests of TeX users in India: if you use TeX
  in any of its forms, you may consider joining TUGIndia (see the Aims and
  Benefits). For additional information on products and services available
  through the Indian TeX Users Group, please send email to
  tugindia@gnu.org.in, phone +91-471-33 7501/7502, or FAX your request to
  +91-471-33 3186.You can also contact via snail mail at:Indian TeX Users
  Group 3rd Floor, SJP Buildings Cottons Hills, Trivandrum 695 014

* CK Raju <ckra@vsnl.net> associate professor of IT at the Kerala Institute of
  Local Administration recently announced on the fsf-india@gnu.org.in
  mailing list that "recently the Minister for Local Administration in
  Kerala has gone public saying that deploying software developed on patent
  free open source platforms is his dream. This happened on 02 Nov 2001 at
  Thiruvananthapuram". Information Kerala Mission, started by the LDF
  ministry are well ahead in their plans with Microsoft products based
  solutions. They have already started installations at a couple of Grama
  Panchayats. "As a part of the exercise, I had enquired about availability
  of financial application packages developed for Linux boxes. GnuCash and
  Sql-ledger were some packages, but I would like to know whether someone
  had seen or developed applications on MySQL/PHP (on thin clients, to
  reduce h/w cost overheads and allow scope for thin devices). GnuCash
  doesn't use a backend and Sql-Ledger uses PostgreSQL.I would also like to
  know whether someone would contribute efforts towards this exercise if I
  go ahead with the initial design and develop a prototype. (I sure am
  against reinventing the wheel)," he says. The exercise would not be
  limited to financial package as it would need to step into areas of
  citizen services to be utilised by the local bodies.  Initial design could
  be made available provided there are volunteers to build and develop the
  work.

* incident.pl 1.9 by Viraj Alankar (http://freshmeat.net/users/valankos/)
  Sunday, November 11th 2001 11:51 Internet :: Log Analysis Security System
  :: Networking :: Monitoring About: incident.pl is a small script that,
  when given syslogs generated by snort or other tools, can generate an
  incident report for events that appear to be attempted security attacks,
  gather information on the remote host, and report the attack to the
  appropriate administrators. Changes: A segfault problem which occurred
  when WHOIS continually failed was fixed. A problem where the -a/-A options
  did not prompt for description was fixed. Another issue that prevented
  RWHOIS server problems from being detected properly was fixed. License:
  GNU General Public License (GPL) URL:
  http://freshmeat.net/projects/incident.pl/

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Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 00:08:06 CST
From: Jason Nunn <jsno@arafura.net.au>
Subject: innuendod R0 released

innuendod- NNTP proxy/spy (revision 0)

availability-
http://jsno.arafuraconnect.com.au/rel/unix_projects/innuendod-0.tar.bz2


this program acts like an NNTP socket proxy- it will accept connections on
119 as though it were a news server. when a client connects, it does a
straight thru connection to an NNTP server (hellstra's NNTP server in our
case).

however... any posts are "captured" and saved to the fs. it also inserts a
few "X-innuendod: " directives into the NNTP header as it's being streamed
to the NNTP server, which gives usenet readers origin information.

all reads and writes to the NNTP are logged. the logging information
contains newgroups, usernames, dates, and subject titles. innuendod
resolves usernames by querying a "gossip" server (a RADIUS mezzianne).

This "quick hack" was written to fullfil Arafura Connects carrier
obligations to track/log users who post articles on usenet. This program
provides us with this needed logging. Primarily, it's so we can nail those
people who post "kiddy porn" into various groups-- we can then hand them
to the feds with the needed evidence etc. that's innuendod's real reason
for existence, hence it's name- "to indirectly remark/accuse" ;).

This project has been funded by Arafura Connect & Arafura Internet
Services Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, and comes under the GNU
General Public License.

                              Arafura Connect
                             71, Mcminn Street
                              Darwin, NT 0810
                                 Australia

                     http://www.arafuraconnect.com.au
                         http://www.arafura.net.au
                     http://jsno.arafuraconnect.com.au

                             *    *    *    *


i've written a few other projects for this company which are commercial.
they may be relevant to your business. check out
http://jsno.arafuraconnect.com.au/proj_comm/ for more details.


:jason nunn


-- 
Jason Nunn- Electronics Technician / Un*x Specialist
Arafura Connect & Arafura Internet Services - 1300 137 363
Email: jsno@arafura.net.au, Mobile: 0418 813426, Fax: 08 89412278
Personal: http://jsno.arafuraconnect.com.au

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