Free netnews software for linux

net-acct logs network traffic. It provides a daemon (nacctd) that logs all traffic passing through the machine it runs on. Capability is provided to associate traffic to slip/ppp users if you run a slip/ppp server.
You should use this because:
You are providing IP to customers and want to charge them based on the traffic they generate.
You are a statistics freak and want to see how much of your network traffic is for NetNews, FTP, WWW etc.
Enhancements:
- revised docs and Makefile slightly (added -O2 etc)
- increased default hash table size and improved algorithm
- added ICMP masquerading and masq bug fixes
- fixed bug with multiple notdev definitions in naccttab
- added PLIP header entry to naccttab.sample
- fixed disable entry in naccttab from field 8 to 7 for 0.5 compatibility
- fixed problem with promisc devices not being reinitialized on SIGHUP

infobot is an IRC bot written in Perl 5 which implements a sort of artificial intelligence by learning information ("factoids") from channel discussions and then responding intelligently to queries about this accumulated information.

In the beginning, we had to type URLs out, or, at best, wade through a set of hierarchic bookmarks for a URL. But what about when you dont know what youre looking for? If you just want to name it, and find out where it is? (Of course, archie has done this for years.)

What makes infobots different from a lycos or a set of bookmarks is that he learns by observing, and that you can query him in intuitive ways.

Internet Relay Chat is a set of client and server which use a protocol. People get on and chat in near-real-time; rather than wait for your netnews replies, you can ask a question and get ignored or answered while you wait.

Url has been sitting on the EFNet channel #macintosh, where hes picked up quite a few factoids from the local community*.

Url, purl, and rurl are perl scripts that once ran under sirc. In fact, it would also run under MacPerl and my barebones port of MacSirc. However, I ended up writing a little irc front-end for it of my own because sirc would hang (rather than, say, crash gracefully).