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From: freshmeat daemon (freshdfreshmeat.net)
Date: Thu Jan 04 2001 - 22:59:02 CST

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    This is the official freshmeat newsletter for Thursday, January 04th. In
    total, 55 articles have been posted and are included in this email.

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      [ article list ]

    o Coyote Linux 1.27 (Console/Mini Distributions)
    o Ultimate Perl and PHP Advanced Mp3 Manager 0.2 (Console/MP3)
    o Disckret 1.0 (Console/Video)
    o netsed 0.01b (Console/Firewall and Security)
    o Jenesis Language Syntax API 0.1.0 (Development/Java Packages)
    o Jeremi 0.8beta (X11/Java)
    o Sympa 3.0 (Daemons/Mailinglist Managers)
    o getKC600 0.0.1 (Console/Drivers)
    o IP Accounting Daemon 1.0.2 (Console/Networking)
    o ferm 0.0.10 (Console/Firewall and Security)
    o mrtg 2.9.7 (X11/Monitoring)
    o joyd 0.3.0 (Daemons/Hardware)
    o SXM 1.0 (Development/Languages)
    o phpSyndication 0.0.3 (Development/PHP Classes)
    o pam_ldap 86 (Console/System)
    o addluser.py .05 (Console/System)
    o GNU Go 2.7.206 (Console/Games)
    o Ora++ 1.1.0 (Development/Database)
    o Karchiveur 2.0.1 (KDE/Utilities)
    o Likken 0.1.0 (Web/Administration)
    o asSQL 1.0 (Development/Database)
    o EnRus dictionary tools 1.1pre (X11/Text Utilities)
    o Tcl MCCP 0.4 (Development/Libraries)
    o DNRD 2.9 (Daemons/DNS)
    o libfget 1.0 (Development/Libraries)
    o libtar 1.2 (Development/Libraries)
    o epkg 2.0 (Console/Administration)
    o Owl Intranet Engine 20010104 (Web/Applications)
    o var'aq 010201 (Development/Languages)
    o FreeLords 0.0.6 (X11/Games)
    o PDAC 2.01 Beta (Development/PHP Classes)
    o JChemPaint 0.8 (Console/Scientific Applications)
    o unixODBC 2.0.0 (Development/Libraries)
    o jPhoto 0.3.6 (Console/Graphics)
    o KFileReplace 0.6.0 (KDE/Utilities)
    o IrcBg Patch for Hybrid IRCD 6.0-p1 (Daemons/IRC)
    o Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor 2.2 (X11/Education)
    o MPI/Pro 1.6.1 (Development/Libraries)
    o curl 7.5.2 (Console/Utilities)
    o GNU TeXmacs 0.3.1-9 (X11/Editors)
    o Web-FTP 1.5.2 (Web/Applications)
    o ORBit-mt 0.5.5 (Development/CORBA)
    o Disc-Cover 1.1.1 (Console/CD Writing Software)
    o Sked 0.1.0 (Console/Utilities)
    o Xcollector 3.0b (X11/News)
    o proManager 2001-01-04 (Web/Applications)
    o SecPanel 0.30 (X11/Communication)
    o gquotes 0.2.25 (GNOME/Applications)
    o PACT 0.9d (Console/Monitoring)
    o Ultimate Perl and PHP Advanced Mp3 Manager 0.1 (Console/MP3)
    o Conquest 7.1 (Console/Games)
    o bibelot.pl 0.8 (Console/Text Utilities)
    o JSX 0.7.1 (Development/Java Packages)
    o Sensor Sweep Applet 0.19.5 (GNOME/Misc)
    o hldfilter 2.0 (Console/eMail)

      [ article details ]

         name: Coyote Linux 1.27
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 23:57 EST
      license: GPL
     category: Console/Mini Distributions

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/coyotelinux/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/coyotelinux/download/
    changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/coyotelinux/changelog/

    description:
    Coyote Linux is a single floppy distribution for people who have an
    Internet connection that they wish to share with other computers on a
    LAN. In addition to connection sharing, it also provides firewall
    services to help protect the internal network. The goal of the Coyote
    project is to make it as quick and easy as possible to share an
    Internet connection.

    changes:
    A backout of the syslinux 1.50 upgrade as it does not seem to work
    properly on some older hardware, and some additional security measures
    in the default firewall scripts.

    urgency:
    low

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/coyotelinux/

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         name: Ultimate Perl and PHP Advanced Mp3 Manager 0.2
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 23:56 EST
      license: GPL
     category: Console/MP3

     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/uppamm/download/

    description:
    UPPAMM, the Ultimate Perl and PHP Advanced Mp3 Manager is a simple set
    of Perl and PHP scripts which help manage large numbers of MP3 files.
    The simple Web interface provides a powerful search system.

    changes:
    Two bugfixes for problems with a very large number of files (2000+).

    urgency:
    medium

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/uppamm/

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         name: Disckret 1.0
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 23:56 EST
      license: GPL
     category: Console/Video

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/disckret/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/disckret/download/

    description:
    Disckret is an hack of xawtv (fbtv) to provide a TV descrambler for the
    diskret algorythm used by canal+ Belgium or RAI in Italy.

    changes:
    Initial release.

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/disckret/

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         name: netsed 0.01b
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 23:55 EST
      license: LGPL
     category: Console/Firewall and Security

     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/netsed/download/

    description:
    netsed brings sed functionality to the network layer, allowing you to
    change the contents of packets travelling through your gateway on the
    fly, in a completely tranparent manner. It features basic expressions
    and dynamic filtering, and cooperates with ipfwadm/ipchains transparent
    proxy rules to pick specific packets.

    changes:
    Initial release.

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/netsed/

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         name: Jenesis Language Syntax API 0.1.0
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 23:52 EST
      license: GPL
     category: Development/Java Packages

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jenesis/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jenesis/download/

    description:
    Jenesis is a tool for dynamic generation of Java source code files. The
    API is an abstraction of the Java language syntax. It is intended for
    use by developers writing applications which dynamically emit source
    code or require on-the-fly classfile generation. Automatic sourcefile
    compilation in conjunction with Javac or Jikes is supported.
    Documentation includes the Javadocs, the source code itself, and an
    LDP-style User Guide.

    changes:
    Initial freshmeat announcement.

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/jenesis/

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         name: Jeremi 0.8beta
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 23:52 EST
      license: GPL
     category: X11/Java

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jeremi/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jeremi/download/

    description:
    Jeremi is a tool for realtime document sharing. It supports distributed
    work on different documents or files by different people or project
    groups. It offers an always-up-to-date view of the project and its
    files and coordinates the dependency of the actual file status and
    access to those files. Jeremi is written entirely in Java.

    changes:
    First beta-release.

    urgency:
    low

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/jeremi/

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         name: Sympa 3.0
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 23:51 EST
      license: GPL
     category: Daemons/Mailinglist Managers

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sympa/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sympa/download/
    changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sympa/changelog/

    description:
    Sympa is scalable and highly customizable mailing list manager. It can
    cope with big lists (200,000 subscribers) and comes with a complete
    (user and admin) Web interface. It is internationalized, and supports
    the us, fr, de, es, it, fi, and chinese locales. A scripting language
    allows you to extend the behavior of commands. Sympa can be linked to
    an LDAP directory or an RDBMS to create dynamic mailing lists. Sympa
    provides S/MIME and HTTPS based authentication and encryption.

    changes:
    This is a major release, with the ability to list configuration
    edition, new S/MIME encryption and HTTPS authentication, shared Web
    space for each list, and new Web navigation ergonomics.

    urgency:
    medium

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/sympa/

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         name: getKC600 0.0.1
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 23:14 EST
      license: Freeware
     category: Console/Drivers

     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/getkc600/download/

    description:
    getKC600 is a tool for getting pictures from a Yashica (Kyocera) KC600
    digital camera connected to a serial port.

    changes:
    First release.

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/getkc600/

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         name: IP Accounting Daemon 1.0.2
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 17:35 EST
      license: BSD type
     category: Console/Networking

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ipa/homepage/
    changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ipa/changelog/

    description:
    IP Accounting Daemon (ipa) is a configurable IP accounting daemon. It
    allows one to do IP accounting based on IP Firewall or IP Filter
    accounting rules. It has a flexible configuration file with many
    sections and options, including control over which time period to
    account over.

    changes:
    OpenBSD support has been added. A new record is always appended to the
    database when ipa starts. Bugs with timestamps have been fixed. A new
    option, -p <pid-file>, has been added to ipa, which allows one to start
    more than one copy of ipa. Database locking feature have been added, as
    well as the lock_db, lock_wait_time and debug_lock parameters. The
    reconfigure facility is now fixed; formerly, when ipa couldn't parse
    the configuration file, it began to use some new settings

    urgency:
    low

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/ipa/

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         name: ferm 0.0.10
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 16:34 EST
      license: GPL
     category: Console/Firewall and Security

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ferm/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ferm/download/

    description:
    ferm is a tool to maintain and setup complicated firewall rules. It
    allows one to reduce the tedious task of carefully inserting rules and
    chains, thus enabling the firewall administrator to spend more time on
    developing good rules, and less time on the proper implementation of
    those rules. These rules will be executed by the preferred kernel
    interface, such as ipchains and iptables, and in one pass. Firewall
    rules can also be split into different files and loaded at will.

    changes:
    A new reverse operator, a fix for the fqdn spec bug, and a new
    policy-only rule possibility.

    urgency:
    low

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/ferm/

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         name: mrtg 2.9.7
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 16:26 EST
      license: GPL
     category: X11/Monitoring

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mrtg/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mrtg/download/
    changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mrtg/changelog/

    description:
    The Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) is a tool to monitor the
    traffic load on network-links. MRTG generates HTML pages containing
    GIF/PNG images which provide a live visual representation of this
    traffic.

    changes:
    A few updates, improvements, and enhancements.

    urgency:
    low

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/mrtg/

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         name: joyd 0.3.0
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 16:20 EST
      license: GPL
     category: Daemons/Hardware

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/joyd/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/joyd/download/

    description:
    joyd is a very flexible program that allows you to execute commands via
    a joystick or joypad attached to your computer. One simple possibility
    would be to reboot when your keyboard is hung. It can use any device
    supported by the Linux Joystick Driver. Helper applications allow you
    to test the joystick status in your own shell scripts.

    changes:
    The way the actions are bound to the joystick has changed completely,
    and a port to BSD has been started.

    urgency:
    low

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/joyd/

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         name: SXM 1.0
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 16:19 EST
      license: free for non-commercial use
     category: Development/Languages

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sxm/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sxm/download/

    description:
    SXM (aka CXEMA) is a portable implementation of the Scheme programming
    language conforming to IEEE/ANSI and R^5RS specifications. It also
    provides numerous language and programming environment extensions found
    in Chez Scheme v.6 and supports SRFIs 0, 6, 8, 11, and 16. The
    implementation is based on an optimizing bytecode compiler/VM and is
    written in ANSI C and Scheme.

    changes:
    First public release.

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/sxm/

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         name: phpSyndication 0.0.3
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 16:19 EST
      license: GPL
     category: Development/PHP Classes

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpsyndication/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpsyndication/download/

    description:
    This library eases the syndication process. It provides a class
    RSStoHTML which allows one to get a RSS source and translate it into
    HTML.

    changes:
    A fix for a bug with semi-columns of encoded chars for PHP3 users.

    urgency:
    low

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpsyndication/

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         name: pam_ldap 86
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 16:15 EST
      license: LGPL
     category: Console/System

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pam_ldap/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pam_ldap/download/

    description:
    pam_ldap is a pam/ldap module that supports password changes, V2
    clients, Netscapes SSL, ypldapd, Netscape Directory Server password
    policies, access authorization, crypted hashes, etc.

    changes:
    Support for Start TLS in OpenLDAP, NDS, and Active Directory password
    changing, support for 4.xx Netscape SDK, support for alternate
    configuration files, a sample chfn/chsh implementation, use of GNU
    autoconf/automake, and support for shadow passwords.

    urgency:
    low

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/pam_ldap/

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         name: addluser.py .05
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 16:14 EST
      license: Public Domain
     category: Console/System

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/addluser/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/addluser/download/

    description:
    addluser.py is a simple Python app that provides adduser/useradd style
    functionality. It takes input from the command line and creates an
    entry in a pre-existing RFC2307-compliant LDAP server.

    changes:
    A fix for a Python-LDAP naming issue (now imports from ldap, rather
    than implicitly _ldap), and password confirmation when adding a new
    user.

    urgency:
    medium

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/addluser/

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         name: GNU Go 2.7.206
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 16:12 EST
      license: GPL
     category: Console/Games

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnugo/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnugo/download/
    changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnugo/changelog/

    description:
    GNU Go is free program that plays the ancient board game of Go. Its
    original concept is based on the article "Programming the Game of Go",
    Byte, Vol.6 No.4, by J. K. Millen. GNU Go has since evolved into a more
    sophisticated program and after thousands of games played on the NNGS
    Go server is rated around the 16 kyu level.

    changes:
    The 2.7 development series shows a major strength improvement from the
    2.6 version. New development versions are available every day or two.

    urgency:
    low

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnugo/

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         name: Ora++ 1.1.0
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 15:58 EST
      license: LGPL
     category: Development/Database

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/orapp/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/orapp/download/
    changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/orapp/changelog/

    description:
    Ora++ provides an object-oriented interface to Oracle 8 through the
    Oracle Call Interface (OCI). The style is similar to JDBC and other OO
    database interfaces but includes C++ flavored features such as building
    SQL statements with streams.

    changes:
    Bugfixes, more complete throw specs, and enhancements primarily to
    Rowtype class and statement classes.

    urgency:
    low

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/orapp/

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         name: Karchiveur 2.0.1
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 15:58 EST
      license: GPL
     category: KDE/Utilities

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/karchiveur/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/karchiveur/download/
    changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/karchiveur/changelog/

    description:
    kArchiveur is a KDE utility to ease working with compressed files. With
    kArchiveur, you can create tar.gz, tar.bz2, .zip, etc. files, and you
    can add, remove, or view one or more files with a multiselection
    window. You can also convert files between .tar.gz and .tar.bz2. It
    also provides an automatic splitter/unsplitter to fit a file onto a set
    of floppies, and wizards, that will help you step by step to compile
    and install software through karchiveur's interface.

    changes:
    The source code has been reorganized, and the interface is now in XML.
    Moreover, dialog boxes have been enlarged to help the translator's job.

    urgency:
    low

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/karchiveur/

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         name: Likken 0.1.0
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 15:56 EST
      license: GPL
     category: Web/Administration

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/likken/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/likken/download/

    description:
    Likken is a simple interface for managing directories via the LDAP
    protocol. It allows an end-user to view and edit information on the
    directory (like his own information) without the need to know about
    LDAP or to be helped by a system administrator.

    changes:
    Initial announcement.

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/likken/

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         name: asSQL 1.0
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 15:55 EST
      license: GPL
     category: Development/Database

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/assql/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/assql/download/

    description:
    asSQL is a graphical SQL client for Linux. It works with most DBD
    drivers available for the Perl DBI. Support for bind variables and
    table-qualifier variables makes cutting and pasting from your code a
    snap.

    changes:
    Initial release.

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/assql/

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         name: EnRus dictionary tools 1.1pre
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 15:54 EST
      license: GPL
     category: X11/Text Utilities

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/enrusdictionarytools/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/enrusdictionarytools/download/
    changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/enrusdictionarytools/changelog/

    description:
    The EnRus dictionary tools are Tcl/Tk scripts for reading a textual
    (plain or compressed by gzip or bzip2) dictionary base and compiling
    new dictionary bases from plain text files. It consists of a few Tcl
    console scripts and a Tk interface to them.

    changes:
    Changes to the output concept, some new variables and removal of some
    old ones (existing files enrusrc and .enrusrc should be corrected), and
    a new ability to use index files.

    urgency:
    medium

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/enrusdictionarytools/

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         name: Tcl MCCP 0.4
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 15:53 EST
      license: GPL
     category: Development/Libraries

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tclmccp/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tclmccp/download/

    description:
    TCL MCCP provides a shared library extension to the TCL language which
    adds support for Mud Client Compression Protocol.

    changes:
    First public release.

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/tclmccp/

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         name: DNRD 2.9
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 15:52 EST
      license: GPL
     category: Daemons/DNS

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dnrd/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dnrd/download/
    changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dnrd/changelog/

    description:
    DNRD is a proxy DNS Daemon. It is useful for a home network where you
    have multiple ISPs or VPNs. DNRD can be set up to forward all DNS
    queries to the appropriate DNS server for each of your ISPs.

    changes:
    Fixes that were needed for some non-Intel platforms.

    urgency:
    low

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/dnrd/

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         name: libfget 1.0
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 15:52 EST
      license: BSD type
     category: Development/Libraries

     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libfget/download/

    description:
    fget is a commandline tool for mirroring remote files via FTP. It is
    based upon the included FTP client library, whose API is designed to
    resemble the normal Unix API for accessing files and directories. This
    interface should make it very easy to integrate FTP support into other
    applications.

    changes:
    First public release.

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/libfget/

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         name: libtar 1.2
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 15:52 EST
      license: BSD type
     category: Development/Libraries

     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libtar/download/

    description:
    libtar is a C library for manipulating tar archives. It supports both
    the strict POSIX tar format and many of the commonly-used GNU
    extensions.

    changes:
    Initial freshmeat announcement; minor API changes to provide a cleaner
    and more flexible interface to the calling application, and several
    bugfixes.

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/libtar/

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         name: epkg 2.0
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 15:51 EST
      license: freely distributable
     category: Console/Administration

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/epkg/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/epkg/download/

    description:
    epkg is a free, open-source package manager which uses the Encap
    Package Management System (a method for flexibly handling installation
    and management of third-party software on a Unix system). Encap places
    each package in its own subdirectory, then automatically manages
    symlinks to their appropriate places in /usr/local. It supports the
    Encap 2.0 package format, which includes postinstall scripts and
    prerequisite checking. Other features include builtin tar/gzip
    extraction, optional builtin FTP support, transaction logging, and the
    ability to automatically upgrade a package to the latest version.

    changes:
    A new "update" mode with integrated FTP support, new "check" mode to
    verify a package's installation, better handling of different
    compression formats, and a completely redesigned libencap API.

    urgency:
    low

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/epkg/

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         name: Owl Intranet Engine 20010104
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 15:48 EST
      license: GPL
     category: Web/Applications

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/owl/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/owl/download/

    description:
    Owl is a multi-user document repository (knowledgebase) system written
    in PHP4 for publishing files/documents onto the Web.

    changes:
    Fixes for bugs relating to folder movement and creation.

    urgency:
    medium

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/owl/

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         name: var'aq 010201
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 15:47 EST
      license: MPL
     category: Development/Languages

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/varaq/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/varaq/download/
    changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/varaq/changelog/

    description:
    var'aq is a speculative exercise in language creation: what does a
    programming language used by Klingons look like? It is a real
    programming language (not just a toy) that tries to imagine what it's
    like to be a hacker of the best-documented alien race in science
    fiction.

    changes:
    Somewhat more of the spec has been implemented, and a translator
    program has been contributed. Also, the arithmetic operator names have
    been changed to reflect recent additions to the Klingon vocabulary
    canon.

    urgency:
    medium

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/varaq/

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         name: FreeLords 0.0.6
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 14:34 EST
      license: GPL
     category: X11/Games

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/freelords/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/freelords/download/
    changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/freelords/changelog/

    description:
    FreeLords is a turn-based strategy game similiar to W*rl*rds. It can be
    played with friends on one computer or via network, and it is written
    in C++ using Qt.

    changes:
    A new network mode, the player can now choose from different armysets,
    and some bugfixes.

    urgency:
    medium

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/freelords/

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         name: PDAC 2.01 Beta
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 14:31 EST
      license: GPL
     category: Development/PHP Classes

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pdac/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pdac/download/

    description:
    PDAC (PHP Data Access Class) is an abstracted data class for PHP 4.0.
    It was created to address several issues: lack of database abstraction
    in PHP, ability to prototype/develop in a lightweight database such as
    MySQL and move to Oracle, etc. before deployment, rapid development,
    and the ability to use a unified database object throughout the site
    while still allowing for multiple queries and transactions. PDAC
    currently includes Interbase, MySQL, ODBC, and PostgreSQL drivers.

    changes:
    A fix for a bug in the MySQL driver which prevented it from functioning
    properly.

    urgency:
    high

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/pdac/

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         name: JChemPaint 0.8
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 14:30 EST
      license: LGPL
     category: Console/Scientific Applications

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jchempaint/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jchempaint/download/
    changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jchempaint/changelog/

    description:
    JChemPaint is a Java 2 program for drawing 2D chemical structures like
    those found in most chemistry textbooks.

    changes:
    Ability to clean up multiple molecules in one document, colouring of
    substructures, ability to assign charges to atoms, and drawing of
    implicit hydrogens. Structures can now be accompanied with some
    properties (Generator, Software, CAS-number, and generation date),
    ability to insert SMILES functionality (by entering them in a pop-up
    window), help functionality with a complete user manual, an export
    filter for SVG, and print capabilities.

    urgency:
    medium

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/jchempaint/

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         name: unixODBC 2.0.0
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 14:26 EST
      license: LGPL
     category: Development/Libraries

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/unixodbc/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/unixodbc/download/
    changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/unixodbc/changelog/

    description:
    The unixODBC project aims to provide UNIX applications with the same
    ODBC 3.X API and facilities available under Windows. It provides a
    Driver Manager that supports the ODBC 3.5 API and performs the ODBC 3
    to ODBC 2 translations and UNICODE to ANSI conversion, a set of
    graphical utilities that allow users to specify connections to DBMSes
    to be used by applications, a collection of ODBC drivers including a
    simple text based driver, an NNTP driver, a Postgres driver and others,
    and a selection of templates and libraries that to aid in the
    construction of ODBC drivers. It works with MySQL, Postgres,
    StarOffice, Applixware, iHTML, PHP, Perl DBD::ODBC, Paradox 9, and many
    other applications and drivers. Connection pooling is also provided for
    application such as PHP.

    changes:
    UNICODE support, connection pooling, driver manager stats, support for
    GNU portable threads, and assorted bugfixes.

    urgency:
    medium

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/unixodbc/

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         name: jPhoto 0.3.6
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 14:26 EST
      license: GPL
     category: Console/Graphics

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jphoto/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jphoto/download/

    description:
    Java USB Camera Tools handle cameras that support the Picture Transfer
    Protocol (PTP) standard, a vendor-neutral standard for talking to
    digital cameras using USB. It provides a protocol library and command
    line tools, and it works nicely with GCJ, the GNU Compiler for Java.

    changes:
    Merging of some cleanups and a new SRPM so that users of RedHat 7 (and
    compatible) operating systems, with GCJ support, can build jPhoto
    binaries using just this package. It handles Kodak DC-4800 cameras
    smoothly on the latest Linux kernels.

    urgency:
    low

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/jphoto/

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         name: KFileReplace 0.6.0
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 14:24 EST
      license: GPL
     category: KDE/Utilities

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kfilereplace/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kfilereplace/download/
    changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kfilereplace/changelog/

    description:
    KFileReplace can replace multiple strings by another string in all
    files or directories.

    changes:
    A new simulation mode, commands to expand/reduce the result view, and
    Debian packages.

    urgency:
    low

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/kfilereplace/

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         name: IrcBg Patch for Hybrid IRCD 6.0-p1
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 14:22 EST
      license: GPL
     category: Daemons/IRC

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/hybpatch/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/hybpatch/download/
    changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/hybpatch/changelog/

    description:
    The IrcBg Patch for Hybrid IRCD adds several new features such as DCC
    files blocking, color stripping, and /ungline functions.

    changes:
    Full integration with hybrid services (ircbg version) and with
    SocksCleaner, and lots of new features.

    urgency:
    low

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/hybpatch/

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         name: Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor 2.2
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 14:21 EST
      license: Free Trial
     category: X11/Education

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tttt/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tttt/download/

    description:
    Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor is a complete typing course suitable for
    beginners, advanced typists, adults, and children. It features two
    games, animated diagrams, comments, progress reports, and much more. It
    also includes networking capabilities, updated graphics, the ability to
    import your own music, and password protection for student files.

    changes:
    Initial freshmeat announcement; support for Linux, networking
    capabilities, updated graphics, password protection for student files,
    and the complete removal of the 256 color resolution restriction.

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/tttt/

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         name: MPI/Pro 1.6.1
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 14:19 EST
      license: proprietary
     category: Development/Libraries

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpipro/homepage/

    description:
    MPI/Pro is a commercial-grade implementation of the MPI (message
    passing interface) standard. It is used in high-performance parallel
    computing, and is the "backbone" library for Beowulf clusters.

    changes:
    Initial freshmeat announcement.

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpipro/

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         name: curl 7.5.2
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 14:19 EST
      license: MIT
     category: Console/Utilities

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/curl/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/curl/download/
    changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/curl/changelog/

    description:
    curl is a tool for getting a file using URL syntax. It supports HTTP,
    FTP, DICT, TELNET, HTTPS, LDAP, FILE and GOPHER as well as HTTP-post,
    HTTP-put, cookies, FTP upload, passwords, portnumbers and proxies. curl
    is built around libcurl, a multiprotocol portable file transfer library
    for URL syntax.

    changes:
    New MIT/X licensing, sending FTP commands in single write()s, removal
    of a file descriptor leak, improved quote command error checks (FTP),
    and removal of a misaligned free() crash.

    urgency:
    medium

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/curl/

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         name: GNU TeXmacs 0.3.1-9
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 08:57 EST
      license: GPL
     category: X11/Editors

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/texmacs/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/texmacs/download/
    changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/texmacs/changelog/

    description:
    GNU TeXmacs is a free WYSIWYG scientific text editor which was inspired
    by both TeX and GNU Emacs. It is also possible to use TeXmacs as an
    interface to computer algebra systems. The program implements
    high-quality typesetting using TeX fonts, but it is also provides a
    user-friendly interface. Finally, TeXmacs supports the Guile/Scheme
    extension language, which makes it possible to adapt the user interface
    to specific needs and even to extend the editor.

    changes:
    This release starts a big restructuring of the TeXmacs data format,
    which will take a few months. In the present distribution, the TeXmacs
    file format should be readable by humans, although it remains possible
    to save documents in scheme format. The selection mechanism has also
    been improved; you can now use multiple selections and specify import
    and export formats. Further changes concern a slightly improved
    conversion algorithm to LaTeX and a new syntax for keystrokes which is
    closer to the one used by Emacs.

    urgency:
    low

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/texmacs/

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         name: Web-FTP 1.5.2
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 08:55 EST
      license: GPL
     category: Web/Applications

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/web-ftp/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/web-ftp/download/
    changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/web-ftp/changelog/

    description:
    Web-FTP is a lightweight Perl/CGI FTP client that can provide quick,
    easy, and (with an SSL-enhanced Web server) more secure access to your
    FTP server. Designed with file management in mind, it supports uploads,
    downloads, and all the usual tasks. No spool directories are used; file
    transfers are relayed directly from the server to the client and vice
    versa. It can also serve as an FTP client, allowing FTP access to
    clients behind a firewall. You may view and edit files as well. Web-FTP
    also has rudimentary CryptoCard support, for CryptoCard protected
    servers.

    changes:
    This release fixes the bug that prevented Web-FTP from working under
    Netscape Server.

    urgency:
    low

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/web-ftp/

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         name: ORBit-mt 0.5.5
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 08:54 EST
      license: LGPL
     category: Development/CORBA

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/orbit-mt/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/orbit-mt/download/

    description:
    ORBit-mt is a multithreaded extension to ORBit.

    changes:
    The header files can now be included from C++ programs. Another bug for
    very large transmissions has been fixed. ORBit-mt.m4 is now included
    for your autoconf pleasure.

    urgency:
    low

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/orbit-mt/

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         name: Disc-Cover 1.1.1
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 08:53 EST
      license: GPL
     category: Console/CD Writing Software

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/disc-cover/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/disc-cover/download/
    changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/disc-cover/changelog/

    description:
    Disc-cover provides an easy way to produce covers for audio CDs. It
    scans audio CDs and uses information from the CDDB database to build a
    back and front cover for the CD. Output is in Latex, Dvi, PDF,
    Postscript, plain ASCII or a format suited for cdlabelgen.

    changes:
    This release adds an optional genre to front cover, adds a "generate
    configuration file" option, changes the time format to ISO 8601,
    removes obsolete flags and options, updates the English and Dutch
    documentation, and adds bugfixes.

    urgency:
    low

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/disc-cover/

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         name: Sked 0.1.0
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 08:51 EST
      license: GPL
     category: Console/Utilities

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sked/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sked/download/

    description:
    Sked is a small curses based calendar and scheduling program. It keeps
    track of your appointments and upcoming events. Its form is designed in
    the spirit of Mutt and vim, and its functionality is designed in the
    spirit of Gnome Calendar and Kalendar.

    changes:
    This release has been completely ported to Python. It uses the Python
    pickle module rather than XML for data storage and the user interface
    is much more streamlined.

    urgency:
    low

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/sked/

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         name: Xcollector 3.0b
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 08:50 EST
      license: free to use but restricted
     category: X11/News

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/x-collector/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/x-collector/download/
    changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/x-collector/changelog/

    description:
    Xcollector (formerly known as newsrunner) connects to a news server and
    fetches binaries from a selection of newsgroups. It has a GUI written
    in GTK+ and includes a picture browser which lets you look at the
    pictures you are currently downloading. A config interface let you
    choose what kind of files you wish to fetch, and an extensive filter
    dialog is available to filter out the spam.

    changes:
    This release adds a way to put articles back into the queue, fixes the
    statistics page, adds the ability to skip articles as they are being
    downloaded, and fixes a segfault bug with imlib.

    urgency:
    medium

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/x-collector/

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         name: proManager 2001-01-04
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 08:48 EST
      license: Freeware
     category: Web/Applications

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/promanager/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/promanager/download/

    description:
    proManager is a PHP/MySQL-based combination of a mind map, intranet,
    project manager, and todo list. It features a task tree, an advanced
    user hierarchy, task-related notes and forums, email-like messaging,
    and multiple language support.

    changes:
    This release adds a Dutch translation and some missing strings in the
    Spanish translation.

    urgency:
    low

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/promanager/

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         name: SecPanel 0.30
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 06:13 EST
      license: GPL
     category: X11/Communication

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/secpanel/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/secpanel/download/
    changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/secpanel/changelog/

    description:
    SecPanel, implemented in TCL/Tk, serves as a GUI for managing and
    running SSH (SecureShell) and SCP (Secure Copy) connections (GUI).
    Nearly all connection-parameters are adjusted by one mouseclick
    (compression, port-forwarding, etc.). It also manages the SSH-agent.
    SecPanel works with ssh 1.2.x and OpenSSH.

    changes:
    The SCP GUI support has been added. Support is included for the
    OpenSSH-suite. SecPanel asks for the user when connecting to sites. An
    advanced script has been added for key distribution.

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/secpanel/

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         name: gquotes 0.2.25
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 06:08 EST
      license: GPL
     category: GNOME/Applications

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gquotes/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gquotes/download/
    changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gquotes/changelog/

    description:
    Gquotes is a financial monitoring tool that lets you fetch quotes from
    many public Web servers offering quotes services. It has configurations
    for some sites like finance.yahoo.fr, nasdaq.com, and you can make your
    own configuration for your favorite financial Web site. It features
    configurable quote update frequency, configurable low and high bounds
    alert, and computation of gain/loss at every update, all on a
    per-symbol basis.

    changes:
    gquotes' ticker is more usable with its new 4-keys keyboard to
    "navigate" the scrolling ticker.

    urgency:
    low

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/gquotes/

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         name: PACT 0.9d
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 06:05 EST
      license: free for non-commercial use
     category: Console/Monitoring

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pact/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pact/download/
    changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pact/changelog/

    description:
    PACT is a software package to do complete port accounting for
    SNMP-manageable devices like routers, hubs, and switches.
    Administration is done using an HTML interface with dynamic data fed
    through PHP and MySQL database backend.

    changes:
    PACT now offers calculation of approximate monthly values for the
    current month in both overview and customer view. The internal gfx tool
    can be replaced by external programs such as MRTG or Cricket, or
    deactivated completely.

    urgency:
    low

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/pact/

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         name: Ultimate Perl and PHP Advanced Mp3 Manager 0.1
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 03:12 EST
      license: GPL
     category: Console/MP3

     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/uppamm/download/

    description:
    UPPAMM, the Ultimate Perl and PHP Advanced Mp3 Manager is a simple set
    of Perl and PHP scripts which help manage large numbers of MP3 files.
    The simple Web interface provides a powerful search system.

    changes:
    Initial public release.

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/uppamm/

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         name: Conquest 7.1
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 01:50 EST
      license: freely distributable
     category: Console/Games

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/conquest/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/conquest/download/
    changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/conquest/changelog/

    description:
    conquest is a real-time, curses based, multi-player space warfare game
    originally written in ratfor for the vax/vms platform, and was an early
    predecessor to netrek.

    changes:
    Initial freshmeat announcement.

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/conquest/

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         name: bibelot.pl 0.8
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 01:50 EST
      license: GPL
     category: Console/Text Utilities

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bibelot/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bibelot/download/

    description:
    bibelot.pl is a Perl script that formats and converts text documents
    into compressed PalmDoc .pdb files, suitable for reading on a Palm or
    Handspring device with any standard PalmDoc reader (AportisDoc,
    CSpotRun, RichReader, TealDoc, etc.). It was written primarily for
    formatting etexts from the Project Gutenberg, but works well for most
    text files.

    changes:
    This release matches more title entries from Project Gutenberg,
    includes tweaks to the smart formatting which helps with badly
    formatted text with short lines, and fixes a bug that didn't strip out
    non-ascii characters in non-ascii character sets. This project has also
    moved to Sourceforge, and now includes CVS development.

    urgency:
    medium

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/bibelot/

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         name: JSX 0.7.1
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 01:48 EST
      license: GPL
     category: Development/Java Packages

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jsx/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jsx/download/

    description:
    Java Serialization to XML (JSX) is a two-way bridge between XML and
    Java. It achieves this mapping by data binding between objects and XML
    with reflection, to create XML tags and attributes from classnames and
    field names. You don't need to write parsing code; you don't need to
    change your classes. So far, it handles: circular references, arrays of
    arrays, private fields, and classes without a no-arg constructor. JSX
    is lightweight.

    changes:
    This release fixes a NoSuchFieldException that occurred for a field
    referring to an array of primitives, and corrects parsing leading white
    in attribute values.

    urgency:
    low

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/jsx/

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         name: Sensor Sweep Applet 0.19.5
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 01:47 EST
      license: GPL
     category: GNOME/Misc

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sensorsweepapplet/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sensorsweepapplet/download/
    changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sensorsweepapplet/changelog/

    description:
    Sensor Sweep Applet is a GNOME panel applet that allows you to monitor
    your system's health through the lm_sensors kernel modules. Sensor
    Sweep is extremely configurable allowing you to specify exactly which
    sensors you wish to monitor.

    changes:
    This release includes support for the newest GNOME panel sizes and
    various bugfixes.

    urgency:
    low

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/sensorsweepapplet/

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         name: hldfilter 2.0
    posted on: Jan 04th 2001, 01:47 EST
      license: GPL
     category: Console/eMail

     homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/hldfilter/homepage/
     download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/hldfilter/download/
    changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/hldfilter/changelog/

    description:
    HLDFilter is an email filter which is more powerful and easier to use
    than procmail. It can filter mail into separate mail folders, and
    reject unwanted email (spam). Automated features allow you to auto
    respond with contents of files or commands, as well as report spam to a
    spammer's ISP. All messages can be logged and added to a statistical
    Web page where you can analyse your email in a graphical format.

    changes:
    This release includes new graphical stats, an auto reporter of spam
    which e-mails the spammer's ISP, forwarding of mail to other email
    addresses, and more configurable options.

    urgency:
    medium

    |> http://freshmeat.net/projects/hldfilter/

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