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Gup, the Group Update Program is a Unix mail-server that lets a remote site change their newsgroups subscription without requiring the intervention of the news administrator at the feed site.

Based on a given regular expression and news group, newsgrab will connect to your NNTP server and download all the binaries in articles that match the given regexp and uudecode them.

FidoNet(tm) transport and gateway for UN*X platform. Delivers Fidonet mail packets over telephone lines and TCP/IP connections; converts Fidonet net- and echomail to RFC-822/RFC-1036 compliant mail and news and vice versa. In cooperation with MTA and netnews packages allows to run a FidoNet node (or point) on a UN*X machine. LICENSE: Freeware

PGP Moose / by Greg Rose <ggr@usenix.org> The aim of this software is to monitor the news postings of moderators of USENET newsgroups, and to automatically cancel forged messages purporting to be approved. This can be extended to the approvals of individual users to automatically cancel messages that appear without having been authorised by the user. This has (obviously) been prompted by the recent spammings and other events. This software and protocol is designed around cryptographic signatures. The protocol is designed to allow the use of different signature techniques. This implemention assumes the use of PGP signatures, but can be easily modified to use others, such as the Digital Signature Standard. PGP was chosen for its widespread availability around the world. PGP, the crux of the cryptographic software, was written by Phil Zimmermann <prz@acm.org>, who otherwise has nothing to do with this. The cryptographic framework was written by Greg Rose <ggr@usenix.org>, as were the INN news system hooks.

POE::Component::Server::NNTP is a POE component that implements an RFC 977 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc977.html NNTP server. It is the companion component to POE::Component::Client::NNTP which implements NNTP client functionality. You spawn an NNTP server component, create your POE sessions then register your session to receive events. Whenever clients connect, disconnect or send valid NNTP protocol commands you will receive an event and an unique client ID. You then parse and process the commands given and send back applicable NNTP responses. This component doesn't implement the news database and as such is not by itself a complete NNTP daemon implementation.

ubh - the Usenet Binary Harvester - is a GPL'ed Perl console application which automatically discovers, downloads, and decodes single-part and multi-part Usenet binaries. Automatically assembles multi-part binaries. Provides searching via Perl regular expression syntax. Also provides a pre-selection capability whereby the user can interactively choose which binaries to download. Uses a standard .newsrc file to control which groups and articles to process. Runs anywhere Perl runs. Tested under Unix-based Perl, Active Perl on Win32 platforms, and Mac OS X. Requires Net::NNTP and News::Newsrc (which itself requires Set::IntSpan), MIME::Parser, MIME::Base64, IO::Stringy, and MailTools (distribution). [ This port is maintained by John Holland <john@zoner.org> ]

Knews is a threaded newsreader with an X Window interface that uses NNTP to get news. Threads are displayed in a graphical tree. Full support for reading MIME articles, except message/partial. o Background threading of newsgroups o Doesn't have to read the active file or group descriptions on startup o A mechansim for reading the spool directory o Kill file support with color blobs o Regular expression searching in articles and the newsgroup list o XPAT searching o Can use different fonts and colors for quoted text and headers in articles o Lots of action procedures that can be tied to keys. o Supports multiple nntp servers o Tagging of articles and saving or piping them in order o Uudecode function. Not perfect, but handles most cases o article text widget is able to display wide-character fonts o article tree has a 'vertical' layout by popular demand o experimental: Decoding of 16 bit encoded charsets o Mailcap file support o save thread data between sessions o article prefetch cache and 'trailing' cache o Less restrictive locking of the interface o Message-id lookup of articles LICENSE: GLP2 or later

ATP allows you to read and compose mail packets of the QWK format, commonly used on PC-based BBS systems. With this program, you can download all of your new e-mail and board messages as a QWK packet, read them offline, compose replies to selected messages off-line, then upload all of your replies as one QWK reply packet the next time you call the BBS.

More and more people are posting binary files to usenet these days. Because of limitations in the type data that usenet can accommodate, binaries must be encoded into text, and because binary files are commonly very large relative to text files usenet was designed to handle, they frequently must be broken up into pieces. aub, which stands for "assemble usenet binaries", automates the reassembly process for you. aub determines whether or not any new binaries have appeared in selected newsgroups since the last time it was run, and if so, retrieves, organizes and decodes them, depositing them in a configurable location. This process requires no human intervention once aub has been configured. aub also keeps track of binaries which it has seen some, but not all, of the pieces of. It remembers how to find these old pieces, so that when new, previously missing pieces arrive at your site, it will build the entire binary the next time it is run. It also remembers which binaries it has already seen all of the pieces of already, so that it does not waste time rebuilding the same binaries over and over again. run: ``aub -M | more'' for the long form documentation, or ``aub -m | more'' for the short form.

Brag collects and assembles multipart binary attachements from newsgroups. It is a robust command line tool, well suited to run as a cron job.