Unix/Linux newsreader utilities

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Unix news utilities:

Console:

aub (Assemble Usenet Binaries) by Mark Stantz is actually a Perl script. "accesses news either remotely via the NNTP protocol or locally, by scanning a news spool directory, and searches for new pieces of split, encoded binaries that have recently been received. Binaries are expected to contain subject lines conformant with de-facto usenet standards; aub may not be able to identify pieces of binaries which are not named according to accepted conventional practice. If new binaries are found, aub retrieves, organizes and decodes them, leaving the decoded files in a configurable location."
auto-faq FAQ Management and Posting Package by Ian Kluft and Paul W. Schleck. "The auto-faq script, written in Perl, was made to help posting Frequently-Asked Questions (FAQ) articles to UseNet newsgroups. It also helps with cross-posting FAQs to the *.answers newsgroups, if the FAQ author chooses to do so, by complying with all the formatting requirements automatically."
BGrab is a binary grabber based on Rael's Binary Grabber
Brag "Brag is a command-line tool to collect and assemble multipart binary attachements from newsgroups. Ideal to run as a cron job. Supports uuencoded and MIME base64 encoded attachements. Filters messages using accept/reject patterns."
Compface by James Ashton.
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Mailman is a mailing list manager that includes a two-way mail/news gateway.
NapNews is a fully automated news group file capture program. "It's compatable with any Gnutella client, and will help obtain a steady stream of new content to share with others. Supply a list of news groups to download from and it does all the work. Set up is easy. It can handle multi part download reconstruction, mime and uudecoding. You can limit how long it works on a group, make it start and stop automatically, configure for each group differently and more!"
newspost by Jim Faulkner "is a usenet binary autoposter for unix. It has been tested on linux, solaris, OSF, and AIX. Using newspost, it is a one command job to uuencode and post as many binary files as you like to your favorite newsgroup."
- Gnewspost is a Gnome front-end to Newspost
NewsX NNTP news exchange program by Egil Kvaleberg. "Newsx is an NNTP client for Unix. It will connect to a remote NNTP server and post outgoing articles batched by the news system, as well as fetch incoming articles."
nget "is a command line nntp file grabber. It automatically pieces together multipart postings for easy retrieval, even substituting parts from multiple servers. Handles disconnects gracefully, resuming after the last part succesfully downloaded."
PIMPPA (sourceforge) "PIMPPA is a toolkit to automatically retrieve, sort, process and backup binary files from different sources. The keyword is 'minimal user interaction'. Newsgroups are the only currently supported source, FTP and WWW are to be added."
stic (Some Tools for Image Collectors) for Linux "bundles a few Linux tools which are intended to support the task of collecting an unreasonable amount of pictures (preferrably in JPEG format)." includes snntpbatch, "a command line based NNTP (newsgroups) client. It is mainly intended for automatic download of images by use of a filter language. Nevertheless it also downloads the message texts and converts them to HTML code which includes the downloaded images. Also, it is capable of automatically posting sets of images to the newsgroups."
Stump moderation utility. Optional WebStump graphical interface. Can also handle mailing lists.
Suck by Bob Yetman. "Suck is a program used to grab news from a remote NNTP news server and bring it to your local machine, without the remote server doing anything special. If you have read permission on the server, you can use suck. Suck does NOT use the NEWNEWS command, hated by many administrators."
SuckMT by Niels Basjes "is intended to be a multithreaded replacement for suck."
Usenet Binary Harvester (sourceforge) Perl. "UBH is a GPL'ed Perl console application which automatically discovers, downloads, and decodes single-part and multi-part Usenet binaries. Runs anywhere Perl runs. Tested under Win32 and Unix."

Gnome:

Glitter by Alexander Mosley " is an interactive GUI program for extracting binaries from newsgroups. It provides a powerful mechanism for filtering files to ensure that you retrieve only the binaries that you want. You may also schedule the binary download for a convenient time, perhaps when you are asleep, when charges are low and the network is not congested."
PicMonger (sourceforge) "PicMonger is an NNTP client that automagically scans a specified Usenet newsgroup for either UUEncoded or MIME (base64) binaries, downloads them, and decodes them. It will also create a series of linked HTML thumbnail pages for previewing purposes."
PIMPPA (sourceforge) "PIMPPA is a toolkit to automatically retrieve, sort, process and backup binary files from different sources. The keyword is 'minimal user interaction'. Newsgroups are the only currently supported source, FTP and WWW are to be added."

GTK:

Getbinnews for Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD is a newsreader developed in C using the GTK user interface (for Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD OS) . The aim of Getbinnews is to extract in some newsgroups a binary file (mp3, jpg, gif,mpg, asf, avi, divx...) splited in articles with mime, uuencode or yenc format.

KDE:

KDE Linux Binaries Downloader "is a KDE Usenet file grabber. It supports multiple servers, multiple download threads, automatic joining/decoding of articles."
KNG "A News Grabber for KDE and Linux" by Cengiz Tuztas. Grabs binaries from newsgroups

X11:

BNR (Short for "Binary News Reader") by Patrick Aalto. "Designed for rapid binary downloading. Among the feature highlights are: Automatic multi-part article combining and completeness checking. Support for multiple news servers simultaneously. Header download optimization. Article download optimization. Connect-on-demand. Checking for file existence before you start downloading an article. Finding an index file to decide whether to download an image. Plugin support. Caching of article headers. Internal JPEG viewer. Multiple Document Interface. Newsgroup-specific settings. Customizable interface."
Grapper by Mika Ristolainen "is a usenet binary downloader supporting most common set of binary files."
PicMonger in Linux from SourceForge. "PicMonger is an NNTP client that automagically scans a specified Usenet newsgroup for either UUEncoded or MIME (base64) binaries, downloads them, and decodes them. It will also create a series of linked HTML thumbnail pages for previewing purposes."
X-collector by Dino "is a program that connects to a news-server and scan groups for binaries. You have a great variety of filters that allows you to get only the kind of binaries you want, and you can optionally let the program view the files as they are downloaded (pictures). The latest version allows for multiple servers, sort groups into categories, scripts, previews, statistics, and up to 9 simultaneous downloads."

NewsRover: for discussion groups and binaries!

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