Usenet News Server for Windows NT

Tortoise is a news server based on our news transit server NNTPRelay. It is built to easily keep up with today's Usenet volume. It runs on Windows NT Server 4.0 (SP3 strongly recommended.)

1/14/99 Floppy_Disk57.gif (165 bytes) We have released Tortoise 2.0 Beta 1

Check out Features/Goals for the latest updates. Check out Tortoise Overview
Check out our Public Reader Box running tortoise. Check other Tortoise Help/Documentation

Significant features of Tortoise include:
Cyclical article storage
Cyclical history
Cyclical group database (similar to Diablo's methodology)
Support for Highwind style external spam filtering
Efficient cross-feeding
Ease in taking a full feed
Very tolerant of suck feeds (though it does not support NEWNEWS)
Overview pregeneration/caching, providing very high performance overview operation
Slaving
Transit-only operation

Updated 1/14/99

Questions or problems regarding this web site should be directed to news@maxwell.syr.edu.
Copyright © 1997 Christopher M Sedore.
Copyright © 1997 Eric S Sedore.
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