NUNTIUS

A Macintosh NNTP Newsreader, developed by Peter Speck

This page was last updated: 9 August 1995

This page is maintained by Aaron Freimark. Thanks to Cornell University Medical College for the WWW server and to Cornell University for providing the ftp server.

Places to get Nuntius

The current version of Nuntius is 2.0.4. You can get it from Denmark, or from Cornell University, USA.
And here's the source code for version 2.0.3 from Denmark and from Cornell (only programmers will want this).
The Definitive Nuntius archive is ftp.ruc.dk. Cornell University hosts a mirror at ftp.cit.cornell.edu. There are other mirrors, but I don't yet have the addresses.

Nuntius Documentation

The Famous Nuntius Frequently Asked Questions List was last updated 13 January 1995.
A Nuntius user's guide from Cornell University (includes a viewer).
Another Nuntius user's guide from Mike Kuniavsky at the University of Michigan (in Microsoft Word 5 and RTF formats).
RFC 1036 is the technical specification for Internet news.

Other Stuff You May Need For Nuntius

To use Nuntius on the PowerPC, you need the Thread Manager from Apple. You also need AppleScript, which should have come with your Mac. See the FAQ for more details.