Both the original tar distribution (dnews27q_freebsd.tar.Z) and
a package version (dnews-27q.tgz) which you can pass to pkg_add(1)
are provided.

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DNEWS: A fast, efficient, low management NNTP news server
                           for
            Windows NT, VMS and UNIX systems.
                            
NetWin World,
P.O Box 27574,
Mt Roskill,
Auckland,
New Zealand,
Email   netwin@world.std.com

DNEWS Features:

Dynamic sucking feed.
   A sucking feed may use as little as 10% of the
   normal disk space and network bandwidth. By only
   getting news items that people usually read very
   large savings are possible particularly for small
   sites & workgroups.  A hundred users can be
   supported on 100-200 MB depending on their  reading
   habits!
   
   I run a single user server on my NT as a background
   service, it's using less than 5MB.
   
Flexible expire settings
  By allowing expiration by 'number of items' low
  volume groups become much more useful.  Also by
  allowing settings which change with disk space the
  system is much more stable to large influxes of
  news.
  
Flexible access restrictions
  Reading and Posting access can be given separately
  to different users and selections of news groups.
  
Binaries available for common platforms
  On many platforms you do not need to build the
  binary yourself, e.g. VMS, (VAX & ALPHA), Solaris,
  Linux, Windows NT
  
Email confirmation of posts
  DNEWS can be configured to send email confirmations
  as it sends items up to a main news server.  This
  gives users a clear record of a posted item and it's
  successful transfer into the 'net'.
  
Items stored in a database
  Items are stored in a database which puts items
  together in blocks of 100.  This saves directory
  entries, inodes, and the empty space usually wasted
  due to blocking factors. Also file open and closes
  are minimized, this is essential on systems where
  this is a 'costly' operation, e.g. VMS.
  
Compiling and porting relatively easy
  DNEWS was designed to be portable from the ground
  up, it does not rely on obscure UNIX features.
  
Installation easy, totally configurable without recompiling
  DNEWS can be configured without recompiling and all
  the configuration scripts have been simplified where
  possible.
  
Documented
  A user manual is available.
  
Supported
  EMAIL support is available for help with
  installation and management.
  
Speed
  On comparable systems DNEWS typically out performs
  other news software, (even the likes of CNEWS and
  INN in some instances), other VMS news servers don't
  even come close.
  
  This is partly because DNEWS uses a more advanced
  database to store the news items.  The difference is
  also very notable on smaller systems (e.g. Linux)
  
XOVER implemented in software
   No xover database is created, the normal DNEWS
   database is fast enough to create this information
   'on the fly'
   
Streaming support
  Streaming NNTP extensions are built in.
  
Machine impact automatically limited
  DNEWS runs on a single process, this speeds up
  connect   time as a process does not need to be
  created, and it self-limits the impact on the
  system.