Software Map

Tin is a powerful text mode news reader. It features threaded news reading, regex driven killfiles/message selections, pgp encryption, ispell support, and can read from both a local spool or from a remote NNTP server.

Leafnode is a news server, suitable for small, limited-bandwidth sites with only a few users (and useful for offline news reading). Leafnode keeps track of which groups are being read and downloads only articles in those groups. Leafnode has been designed to require no maintenance and to be easy to set up.

SLRN is an NNTP-based newsreader for Unix, VMS, win32, BeOS, and OS/2 systems. Unlike many other newsreaders, SLRN supports color terminals and displays a thread tree.

sn is a small news system for sites which serve perhaps a few dozen newsgroups, and which have a slow connection to the Internet. The target user is a home or SOHO with a single modem connection to the Internet and serving a few workstations. sn also includes a mail-to-news filter.

Kwooty is a .nzb usenet binary grabber for KDE 4. Its main features include multi-server support, smart Par2 download, automatic file verification/repairing and archive extraction (RAR, Zip, 7z), automatic file downloading after opening the NZB file, shutdown scheduling, built-in SSL connection support, queue management, and more.

The Usenet Binary Harvester (ubh) is a Perl console application which automatically discovers, downloads, and decodes single-part and multi-part Usenet binaries. It automatically assembles multi-part binaries, provides searching via Perl regular expression syntax, and provides a pre-selection capability whereby the user can interactively choose which binaries to download. Ubh uses a standard .newsrc file to control which groups to process, and uses the .newsrc to keep track of articles already processed. It also handles uuencoded binaries, MIME attachments, and yEnc encoded binaries.

zfec is a fast, portable, and programmable
implementation of erasure coding. It includes a C
library, a Python library, and a command-line
tool. Erasure coding is also known as "forward
error correction", which is the generation of
redundant blocks of information such that if some
blocks are lost then the original data can be
recovered from the remaining blocks. The RAID-5
algorithm is an erasure code, but while RAID-5 can
recover from the loss of any one element, zfec can
be parameterized to choose in advance the number
of elements whose loss it can tolerate.

hellanzb is an application that retrieves and
processes NZB files and makes obtaining files from
Usenet as hands-free as possible. Once fully
installed, all that is required is moving an NZB
file to the queue directory. Downloading,
par-checking, and un-raring is done automatically
by the program.

Newsd is a standalone local NNTP news server for
private newsgroup serving on a single server. It
is useful for serving private newsgroup(s) to an
intranet or the Internet, and can act as a simple
mail gateway. However, it does not interface with
other news servers and cannot manage distributed
news feeds, i.e. Usenet news.