This is nntp-merge, a program which acts as an NNTP server and passes
requests to one or more other NNTP servers, towards which it presents
a client interface.  Selection of which server to use is based on the
group being read or posted to.  The merger supports [X]AUTHINFO
GENERIC authentication with its own shared-secret MD5
challenge-response protocol; other authentication methods could be
added in principle.

I wrote it for my own system, chiark.greenend.org.uk, where it has proved
to be very useful; it may also be useful to you.  If you like it and patch
it please do send me the patches.

There is no configure script and no documentation, but there is a
Makefile and a sample config file, and the software is available in
the form of a Debian package.

nntp-merge's URL is http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/nntp-merge/.

nntp-merge is Copyright (C)1995-1997,2000 Ian Jackson.  It is free
software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any
later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for
more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program as the file COPYING; if not, email Ian Jackson
<ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> or write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307,
USA, or consult the Free Software Foundation's WWW page at
<URL:http://www.fsf.org/>.

 - Ian Jackson 16.9.1997, 1.5.2000
   $Id: README,v 1.1 2000/05/01 14:02:09 ian Exp $