Hullo
Welcome to what aim to be some pages to help you get information about using Xnews, Luu Tran's excellent but outdated newsreader for Windows®. There is a small amount of actual Xnews help right here on these pages, but mostly you will find links to other websites which help.
Site Changelog
2015.04.27
x prepended final change.txt to changes.txt
x pointed some dead links to archive.org copies
2015.04.26
o moved from xnews.remarqs.net to xnews.remarqs.org
2012.06.16
x uploaded changes.txt, on help page
2013.04.13
! Use archive.org when links are borken.
2012.06.14
x updated Farscape links to point to archive.org
2010.05.07
x updated DavidB links to point to archive.org
x updated PolarBear link to point to archive.org
2009.11.19
+ restored blinkylinks, now at twovoyagers.com, thanks to Steve Ackman
2009.10.11
- removed links to blinkynet — rest in peace, shark
x updated text for wine howto, noting it isn't maintained
2009.01.01
o updated some links, annual maintainance now
2008.01.02
+ added new links to DC's icon pages, now at remarqs.net
2007.12.30
- removed links to DC's icon pages, now gone from the 'net
- removed links to the regex tutorial at UGA, also gone
2007.04.26:
+ 404'd help4newbies put back on bunnies page; link is now to archive.org's copy
2007.03.24:
+ some example ini files, help page
2007.03.18:
x future-proofed link to Maxx by pointing to his main portal
x minor html cleanup, all pages
2007.02.23:
x removed css-less pages, ending support for old IEs
2007.02.1:
o new host, after a few months off the air due to death of old host
2006.10.15:
+ on ssl page, added instructions for getting the latest openssl libs
x changed some links from stunnel.org pages to stunnel.mirt.net pages
2006.07.12:
x site restyled; old style available as an alternate
2006.07.10:
+ link to Howe Park's Snooze, from binaries and apps pages
x new favicon, a few days ago I think
2006.06.30:
+ brief Installation section, help page; link to Shark
2006.04.24:
– help4newbies links removed due to 404
2006.01.27:
x switched to html from xhtml
2006.01.04:
x moved site to new host, hopefully didn't break (m)any links
x hardwrapped scoring.txt for better display in browsers
2005.12.29:
+ WinFace, apps page
+ NZB export capability noted, apps & bunnies pages
– the absey-vine version archive is gone
2005.12.13:
x restored contact info which had been removed for a few months, now that I'm back
x updated stunnel instructions, now that stunnel is packaged in an install exe for Windows®
08.07.20:
+ XnewsQueue, on bunnies and apps pages
08.05.07:
+ Automan tutorial, on bunnies page
– ZoneAlarm warning, on bunnies page
x various cosmetic changes
??.03.23:
+ couple of regex tutorials, scoring page.
??.03.21:
+ link to Help4Newbies, on bunnies page.
??.03.07:
+ links to: Wine HOWTO, on apps page; Murray's score.ini on score page
x CSS made saner, HTML converted to sane XHTML, with bonus of new layout.
o Why didn't someone tell me my mailto link was borken in Opera? Oh, that's why.
??.02.20:
x cleaned out some of the annoyances (for me) in the main navmenu CSS.
??.02.15:
+ Page of links to some third-party apps. Click click the menu.
??.02.13:
o put back a couple of the pages, which had gone missing from the webspace, d'oh.
+ added this changelog, mostly to remind me what I don't still need to do.
– got rid of 'message of the day', which I obviously never was going to update.
6.09.20-6.10.20, or thereabouts:
+ put initial pages online, minor fiddling.
To-Do List
+ add page about non-English Xnews resources (though Luu links to most, I think).
x DONE clean up CSS for easy maintainance. DONE
+ DONE add to-do list in this space. DONE