SurgeNews News Server 2.0a

SurgeNews is a next generation News Server with new high performance fully threaded design.
The super efficient database, does continuous header sorting to optimize downloading. This can increase body and header download speeds from a typical servers 30 per second, to 300 per second.
The database is capable of handling millions of items per group, and storing a years news on a single server, without suffering degradatation as the quantity of data increases.
SurgeNews has a built-in efficient, clean and tailorable WebNews interface. Includes automatic image thumbnail generator and reconstructs multi part items.
Simple to install. You can be reading news in minutes and the web management interface will give you full control of all the features - no tricky config files to struggle with!.
Spam Proof. Spammers routinely harvest your users email addresses from newsgroups. SurgeNews includes a unique technology to replace email addresses in headers with ever changing addresses.
It then acts as a mail server firewall and only allows responses to the actual news messages to go through to the real email addresses (and only for a fixed time period) Full feed or Pull mode.
Run with a 200mbit news feed, a farm of news servers, or use to proxy/cache news groups over a 100Kbit modem for local staff / geographic location, or any combination of proxy/pull cache and full feed.
Efficient header pull mode where bodies are only fetched when messages are read by real users, saving huge quantities of bandwidth. Pull from multiple upstream sites!
Charge/Control users the way you want to. Control user limits by ip or user, and by day or month usage limits, or by bandwidth. Widearea user limits so limits can apply over a farm of news servers.
Enhancements:
- Improved index format, Added failover support for proxy host settings, Added support for sharing the load between multiple hosts using header feeds