Newsstar fetches news and posts it to a local server; INN, s-news and sn are
supported, and it should be easy to adapt for other servers with some
configuration and extra scripts. It's designed for Unix-like systems, and all
the development was done on Linux.
There are already plenty of other programs to do this, but what makes newsstar
special is that it can make multiple simultaneous connections, not only to
one server, but to several, supporting up to 10 threads. Before fetching each
article it checks that it hasn't already been downloaded by another thread or
in a previous session. It can also pipeline article requests to make better
use of available bandwidth.
I wrote it because a number of ISPs I have used suffer from unreliable
newsfeeds. There is an excellent free server made available by
news.individual.net, but it can be a bit slow at times, and using external
servers uses more bandwidth. Therefore I wanted a program which could fetch
whatever articles my ISP has available, but use the foreign server to avoid
missing posts or getting them very late, and to do it as fast as possible.
mail2nntp is a bridge from email realm to the newsgroup one.
It can be used to replicate a mailing-list on a newsgroup server.
It is a generic toot, using NNTP network commands
XRN is a program for reading News via NNTP on a UNIX machine which supports the
X Window System.
XRN is compliant with the Good Net-Keeping Seal of Approval (GNKSA).
Leafnode v1.11 is a simple, IPv6 enabled NNTP server and client
designed for small sites. (Think store & forward proxy if you like.)
It "learns" which newsgroups should be downloaded based on what's accessed.
Use it to enable online newsreaders to offline reading or to reduce your
external bandwidth if you have several users accessing Usenet news.
Papercut is a news server written in 100% pure Python. It designed
to be use as backend for PHP, or to be run on a small network.
Messages can be stored in a MySQL database.
It doesn't support feeding.
No News is good news. This version of nn has NOV support.
NNTP server daemon, and clients for transferring news articles.
Twisted News provides a very basic NNTP server, as well as an NNTP client
protocol implementation. Two message storage systems are supported: the
DB-API 2.0 backend stores and indexes messages in any compatible SQL database;
the Twisted dirdbm backend uses serialized Python objects stored directly on
the filesystem for message storage. Twisted News also has very rudamentary
support for moderated groups.
Twisted News is available under the MIT Free Software licence.
This is version 4.0 of trn, the threaded news reader. This version
has improved online help, mouse support in xterms, article scoring,
and other new features.