part of the ArsDigita Community System by Philip Greenspun and
Jesse Koontz  The Big Idea  A news item is something that is
interesting for awhile and then should disappear into the
archives without further administrator intervention. We want a
news article to serve as the focus of user comments. You could
use the /bboard system to accomplish the same function. If you
did, you'd get the advantages of file attachments, group-based
administration, etc. But we think that news truly is different
from discussion. We want to present it by date, not by topic.
The publisher probably wants to be very selective about what
gets posted (as news if not as comments on news). So it gets a
separate module.  However, a Newsgroup approach allows a small
about of administrative control over group scoped news postings.
This module has three special newsgroups. The public newsgroup
contains news items that are accessed at the site wide scope.
The all_users newsgroup contains news items that show up on all
newsgroups. The regist