InterNetNews

InterNetNews (INN) is a Usenet news server package, originally released by Rich Salz in 1991, and presented at the Summer 1992 USENIX conference in San Antonio, Texas.

A later improvement was the Cyclical News Filesystem (CNFS), which sequentially stores articles in large on-disk buffers.

This method, implemented by Scott Fritchie, greatly increased performance by eliminating the operating system overhead needed to deal with thousands of individual article files.

Like innd, innfeed operates continuously to feed articles out to other servers, while the earlier innxmit processed them in batches.

This combination allows articles to be received and redistributed with virtually no latency, and has substantially changed the nature of Usenet interaction by reducing the time for messages to be posted, read across the network and answered, from hours or days, to seconds or minutes.