<s>
C	B-Application
News	I-Application
is	O
a	O
news	B-Application
server	I-Application
package	O
,	O
written	O
by	O
Geoff	O
Collyer	O
,	O
assisted	O
by	O
Henry	O
Spencer	O
,	O
at	O
the	O
University	O
of	O
Toronto	O
as	O
a	O
replacement	O
for	O
B	B-Application
News	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
presented	O
at	O
the	O
Winter	O
1987	O
USENIX	B-Operating_System
conference	O
in	O
Washington	O
,	O
D.C.	O
</s>
<s>
Functionally	O
,	O
the	O
operation	O
of	O
C	B-Application
News	I-Application
is	O
very	O
much	O
like	O
that	O
of	O
B	B-Application
News	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
One	O
major	O
difference	O
was	O
that	O
C	B-Application
News	I-Application
was	O
written	O
with	O
portability	O
in	O
mind	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
ran	O
on	O
many	O
variants	O
of	O
Unix	B-Application
and	O
even	O
MS-DOS	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
relaynews	O
program	O
that	O
handled	O
article	O
filing	O
and	O
feeding	O
was	O
carefully	O
optimized	O
and	O
designed	O
to	O
process	O
articles	O
in	O
batches	O
,	O
while	O
B	B-Application
News	I-Application
processed	O
one	O
article	O
per	O
program	O
invocation	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
authors	O
claimed	O
that	O
relaynews	O
could	O
process	O
articles	O
19	O
times	O
as	O
quickly	O
as	O
B	B-Application
News	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
1992	O
,	O
Collyer	O
gave	O
C	B-Application
News	I-Application
a	O
new	O
index	O
facility	O
called	O
NOV	O
(	O
or	O
News	O
Overview	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Virtually	O
all	O
news	B-Application
servers	I-Application
continue	O
to	O
use	O
this	O
method	O
in	O
the	O
form	O
of	O
the	O
NNTP	B-Protocol
XOVER	B-Protocol
command	I-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
Development	O
of	O
C	B-Application
News	I-Application
stopped	O
about	O
1995	O
,	O
and	O
the	O
package	O
was	O
largely	O
superseded	O
by	O
INN	B-Application
.	O
</s>
