[ANN] Papercut 0.8.3 - python nntp server

[Joao Prado Maia]

Papercut is a multi-threaded news server written in Python. Its main
objective is to integrate existing web based message board software
(Phorum [http://phorum.org] on this case) with a Usenet front-end.
However, its extensibility enables developers to write their own container
for the storage of the Usenet articles (messages). That means that the
code is extensible enough that _you_ could write new containers to
integrate the news server with other web message board projects or even
with other ways to store the messages.

The source code is available freely under the BSD license, which means you
can do whatever you like with it. I do welcome any and all contributions
to the project :)

A quick description of the changes on this release:

- A lot of work re-designing the way the various storage modules work and 
also doing the initial code to support NTTP authentication. More changes 
are still to come, but this version already serves as a nice initial 
version with most (if not all) of these features working. New features 
include a standalone mysql storage module (no web front-end), an 
authentication module for Phorum and the concept of a 'read-only' / 
'read-write' server with password protection.

More information can be found on the project site -> http://papercut.org

Cheers,
Joao Prado Maia