Scoop Files

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Scoop 0.5
by Rusty Foster <rusty@kuro5hin.org>

README:
$Revision: 1.1.1.1 $
$Date: 2000/04/23 01:56:17 $
$Author: kuro5hin $
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Scoop (which stands for "Scoop Is Not A Recursive Acronym", by the
way) is intended to be a more-or-less plug-in replacement for the
Slash weblog system.

This tarball will function as a CVS checkout (as it is literally a
tar -c of exactly that). If it's much past the date above, try
doing:

$ export CVSROOT=":pserver:cvs@velocity.kuro5hin.org:/cvs"
$ cvs login (password is "cvs")
$ cvs update (from within your scoop directory)

to get the freshest code.

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The License:
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Scoop is licensed under the GNU GPL. You will find a copy of this license
in the file named "LICENSE."

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To Install
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Read the file INSTALL in this directory.

Lots more info and support is available at http://scoop.kuro5hin.org/, 
and the Sourceforge project at http://scoop.sourceforge.net/.

Good Luck!

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Credits
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All the code (so far) was written by Rusty Foster (rusty@kuro5hin.org)

Some database tables came from slash 0.3, by Rob Malda and many others

Thanks also to slashdot for inspiration and concepts, and for providing 
me with a motivation to write a system that isn't theirs ;-)

Many thanks to Brent Metzler for running scoop.kuro5hin.org and stepping up 
to maintain the open source project. Check out http://www.geeky.org/ :-)

Thanks to John Havard, Head Geek at The Seven Sages Project 
(http://www.sevensages.org/) for suggesting the user creation scheme, and 
assuring me it would prevent story spamming. If it doesn't work, blame him. ;-)
And thanks to John also for fixing my fscked-up zone file.

Dylan <Dylan_G@bigfoot.com> suggested a great many features, and found some bugs,
and has helped keep me sane and introduce me to slackware.

Karsten Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> provided a great lot of feedback and ideas, 
and pretty much designed the comment rating system. He has also gone way out of 
his way to promote Scoop everywhere.

Chris Ainsworth has done heaps of graphics work for free, and deserves a big
hand.

Eveyone else at http://www.kuro5hin.org/ has also been a huge help in ferreting 
out bugs and "features" and in making this as "stable" as it is now, and for 
continuing to give me a standard to live up to.

And thanks to everyone on slashdot.org and technocrat.net who gave me good ideas
and plans for the future.


--Rusty