CSM Releases 100,000 Categorized USENET News Filter!LAYTON, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 23, 1998--Computer Software Manufaktur (CSM CSM - ["CSM - A Distributed Programming Language", S. Zhongxiu et al, IEEE Trans Soft Eng SE-13(4):497-500 (Apr 1987)]. ) today announced the release of their newest product: CSM News Filter and CSM Proxy Plus News Filter. Both provide corporations with a state-of-the-art, dynamic tool to facilitate productive use of the vast resources of Internet news groups. CSM's News Filter has state of the art filter technology with lots of great features: More than 100,000 newsgroups This is a list of newsgroups that are significant for their popularity or their position in Usenet history. As of October 2002, there are about 100,000 Usenet newsgroups, of which approximately a fifth are active. indexed into 30 administrator selectable categories such as Computer, Sex, Crime, Drugs, Travel, Health, etc. and includes a user definable miscellaneous category. The CSM News Filter also has the ability to specify "business hours BUSINESS HOURS. The time of the day during which business is transacted. In respect to the time of presentment and demand of bills and notes, business hours generally range through the whole day down to the hours of rest in the evening, except when the paper is payable it a bank or by a only" filtering via Socks Proxy. Further user and group controls are possible when used in conjunction with CSM Proxy Plus. The monthly updated news filter database is sent automatically. The CSM Proxy Plus download includes a 2,500 news group demolist. The full (100,000 news groups) News Filter list is also available as a time-limited evaluation upon request. Both products are now available. In addition to the stand-alone version of CSM News Filter, CSM has also integrated the filter database into their highly acclaimed ac·claim v. ac·claimed, ac·claim·ing, ac·claims v.tr. 1. To praise enthusiastically and often publicly; applaud. See Synonyms at praise. 2. CSM Proxy Plus server as an optional add on product. CSM will also has an API (Application Programming Interface) A language and message format used by an application program to communicate with the operating system or some other control program such as a database management system (DBMS) or communications protocol. Toolkit available this quarter that will allow other Firewall, Proxy and Access Manager vendors to integrate the news filtering into their products. "With our new CSM News Filter and CSM Proxy Plus, companies of all sizes can now provide an affordable and secure gateway/firewall from their LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. to the Internet," said Mark Smith, president CSM-USA. "As organizations allow their employees access to the Internet, they are concerned about the effect on productivity and the potential for legal liability. Now besides filtering unwanted URLs, companies can allow access to news groups with confidence that the news groups being frequented are for business purposes only." Founded in 1990, Computer Software Manufaktur (CSM) is one of the few European software developers offering Internet software for the global marketplace and are available for Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. and Windows 95. Distributor and volume discounts are available. CONTACT: CSM-USA Mark Smith, 801/547-0914 msmith@csm-usa.com http://www.csm-usa.com |
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