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What is NewsCache? NewsCache is a free cache server for USENET News available under the GNU General Public License. NewsCache can be plugged in between your news reader(s) and your news server. NewsCache acts to news readers like a news server and retrieves news articles from the news server like a news reader. Whenever, a client requests an article from NewsCache, NewsCache checks whether the article has already been stored in the cache area. If this is the case, the article is sent directly to its client. Otherwise, the article is requested from the upstream news server, stored in the cache area and sent back to the client.

Newsfetch pulls news from an NNTP server and writes the articles to a file or pipes them to the specified command. The file created by newsfetch can be used with any mail reader.

From the README: newsfish, quite simply, is a batch USENET news reader. In other words, it is not interactive, and it has a very simple user interface. The power of newsfish is that it can sift through articles and save only the ones that match your criteria. It does this by applying a set of regular expressions (a la grep/egrep) to the headers of each article. Articles are saved in mailbox format, which makes them suitable for viewing under most popular mail readers.

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.

nget is a command line NNTP file grabber. It automatically pieces together multipart postings for easy retrieval, even substituting parts from multiple servers. It handles disconnects gracefully, resuming after the last part successfully downloaded, and caching of header data for quick access.

Noffle is a Usenet news server optimized for few users and low speed dial-up connections to the Internet. It acts as a server to news clients running on the local host, but gets its news feed by acting as a client to a remote server. Allows reading news offline with many news clients, even if they do not support offline reading by themselves.

NzbPerl is a perl script for downloading nzb files. It supports automated parsing and sorting of nzb files, multiple servers, automated downloading, assmbling and decoding of message parts, and has user controlled bandwidth throttling during runtime.

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.

This is a port of plor (which stands for Prosa Offline Linux Reader). Plor reads soup and qwk message packets. It is alpha software. You can use this as an alternative to the slnr package.

NZB is an XML-based file format for retrieving posts from NNTP (Usenet) servers. Since NZB is XML-based, it's relatively easy to build one-off parsers to parse NZB files. This project is an attempt to consolidate those many one-off NZB parsers into one simple interface.