Free news spool software for linux

News Spotter is a desktop utility which fosters an addiction to current events. Is a rss reader which automatically monitors news feeds. .Most of the time, News Spotter sits quietly on the left or right side of your screen. But when a new headline is identified from one of its monitored web sites, News Spotter graphically displays the headline as a hyperlink. When you click on the headline, News Spotter opens the corresponding URL in your default browser.
Main features:
- minimalist user interface
- is very simple to use it and very functional

Newsx is an NNTP client for Unix. It connects to remote NNTP servers and receives incoming and outgoing articles
Newsx is also well suited for large spools with normal feeds, being used for pulling newsgroups from specific NNTP servers that are not distributed in the usual manner. Since newsx obeys the normal news spool configuration file and requires little or no specific configuration, the administrative burden should be minimized.
Main features:
- compatible with C News and INN local news servers
- configuration relies on standard C News and INN mechanisms for setting up newsservers and newsgroups
- setting of which newsgroups will be exchanged with which remote server based on sys or newsfeeds files, making administration easy
- logging of errors that occurred, as well as article transfer statistics
- optional log file for actual articles posted, and collection of posted articles in folders
- has been designed to be nice, so as not to overload the remote news server
- uses only standard RFC-977 functions, so should be compatible with the vast majority of news servers
- comprehensive error recovery for posting as well as for fetching; failed postings will be retried at the next opportunity, while fetching will resume at the point where it stopped
- refers to news history database to prevent fetching of articles already in the local spool. will not fetch crossposted articles more than once. does not rely on Xref, since many sites does not provide it.
- interface to popular news filters like Cleanfeed
Pulling news
News transfer via fetching to local news spools is sometimes claimed to be an inefficient way of transferring news compared to connecting newsreaders directly to the remote NNTP server.
The fact of the matter is that if set up and used correctly, exactly the opposite is the case.
A local news spool allows news transfer to occur at off-peak hours, thereby decreasing the host server load in the critical period. This will tie up less modems at peak hours, as well as decreasing the connect time since the actual transfer will run much quicker.
A fetch based system is also easier to administrate then the feeding kind, since every site decides for itself what groups it will exchange with whom. The major down-side is that article propagation times will be longer. For sites that are leafs in the news distribution tree, this is usually not very important.
Much of the problems connected with news pulling is connected to the use of the RFC-977 NEWNEWS command. Most news servers has implemented this command in an inefficient manner, which will put severe loads on the newsserver. Newsx does not use NEWNEWS.

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.
Newsd is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License. The Newsd source code should compile on any POSIX-compliant operating system. Binaries are provided for Linux and MacOS X.
Enhancements:
- Important fix to multiline headers being split during header reordering
- STR#15: Path: now maintained and passed through mail gateway
- STR#16: Mailgateway: "From" field now renamed to "X-Original-From:"

MyNews provides a Web news grabber.

MyNews is a program that scans selected Web sites for recent news. News items are stored in a database.#

MyNews users can subsribe to Web sites to receive email when recent news items have been added. The MyNews script requires the MN Perl module.

newsq consists of an interactive program to manipulate messages in an outgoing news queue.

newsq allows you to re-edit, view, delete, and postpone messages in your outgoing news queue after youve composed them but before youve uploaded them to your remote server.

It uses the curses library to provide a powerful text-based interface.

News transports currently supported are leafnode, s-news, sn (partial), slrnpull, and NNTP servers in conjunction with a batch file such as used by an INN/suck/rpost or INN/newsstar combination.

News Streamer provides a script to play the most recent France 2 news report with Mplayer.

The French TV station France 2 has been kind enough to make its news broadcasts available on the Internet. However, this has been done in a way thats not particularly friendly to non-Microsoft products.

This script makes things easier by checking for the availability of the most recent news report and then playing it using Mplayer.

The checking for the availability of an episode is done using a mmsrip.

If its useful to you to watch the news at a different speed, a speed parameter may be passed to this script (eg f2 0.5 to play at half speed)

If the most recent episode is not available, this script will keep searching back until it finds the most recent available episode.

It wont keep searching for ever, however, and gives up after 10 episodes.

To be honest, if it doesnt find anything after 10 episodes it probably means that theres a problem at their end, theyve change their URL format, or youve got some kind of network trouble.

phpNews provides a Web News Manager.

php-News is a PHP3 application that allows you to easily include a news system on your Web site.

Its features include posting news, news summary view, read news view, news adminsitration tool for browse, edit and delete news.

TkNewsII is a QWK and NNTP echomail and Usenet news client.

This package needs a basic C compiler, Tcl/Tk (8.3 or later), BWidget (1.7 or later), and Snit (part of Tcllib). LaTeX and tex4ht are needed to build the documentation (PDF and HTML).

To build:

./configure [--with-bwlib=BWIDGETDIR] [--with-snitlib=SNITDIR] [standard configure options
make
make install

Youll need a $HOME/.TkNewsRc file, which will contain your news configuration information.