Hi, I got myself a contrib directory on sources (thank you, Russ) and put a version of nntpfs that translates the articles to utf8 in /n/sources/contrib/r.raschke/utf8nntpfs.tgz .
I ripped off a lot of code from upas/fs and inserted it into nntpfs. This is not really the optimal way of dealing with the problem, but it was the quickest. A more structured presentation a la upas/fs would probably be nicer. But, it does the job for me at the moment. I am sure that there are bugs lurking in that, but so far I have been using it successfully for about two weeks. I have also put my version of the acme News reader (with simple threading, kill files, and remembering the last message you read) in that directory. Robby
