> I have been running it for a couple of days, and it appears to have tamed the
> news formats for the moment.
You can grab a copy, in the usual compressed cpio archive format, at
ftp://ftp.grot.com/xpress/dist0796.cpio.Z (or, if you prefer, ftp to
ftp.grot.com, cd to xpress, make sure you're in binary mode, and
get dist0796.cpio.Z).
Enjoy!
-Brian