There is a commercially-published book, "Managing UUCP and USENET", from
O'Reilly and Associates <nuts@ora.com> (+1 800 338 6887 or +1 707 829 0515),
that many readers have recommended.  The latest edition of this book
discusses the NNTP protocol and the NNTP implementation maintained by
Stan Barber, commonly known as the "reference implementation" (nntp1.5);
but it does not yet talk about INN.  This book has a companion volume,
"Using UUCP and USENET", that is more oriented to users.

A rewrite of these two books is currently being done by Henry Spencer
(the C News portion) and Dave Lawrence (the INN portion).  Their book
will become the volume on both using and managing USENET news; the
tentative release date is set for late 1994.  (Note: bugging either of
these busy folks won't get it done faster :-) )  [O'Reilly may rearrange
the other material into a companion volume that would cover both using
and managing UUCP; plans are less definitely.]

For the impatient, you can subscribe to the O'Reilly announcements list
by sending a message to listproc@online.ora.com with the first line:

subscribe ora-news Your Name at Your Organization

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