Free usenet software for linux

sinntp is a tiny NNTP client. sinntp virtually lacks any user interface: news messages are downloaded from a remote server and put into a local mailbox file.
About NNTP:
The Network News Transfer Protocol or NNTP is an Internet application protocol used primarily for reading and posting Usenet articles, as well as transferring news among news servers. Brian Kantor of the University of California, San Diego and Phil Lapsley of the University of California, Berkeley completed RFC 977, the specification for the Network News Transfer Protocol, in March 1986. Other contributors included Stan Barber from the Baylor College of Medicine and Erik Fair of Apple Computer.
Usenet was originally designed around the UUCP network, with most article transfers taking place over direct computer-to-computer telephone links. Readers and posters would log into the same computers that hosted the servers, reading the articles directly from the local disk.
As local area networks and the Internet became more commonly used, it became desirable to allow newsreaders to be run on personal computers, and a means of employing the Internet to handle article transfers was desired. Because networked Internet-compatible filesystems were not yet widely available, it was decided to develop a new protocol that resembled SMTP, but was tailored for reading newsgroups.
The well-known TCP port 119 is reserved for NNTP. When clients connect to a news server with SSL, TCP port 563 is used. This is sometimes referred to as NNTPS.
The protocol remains in widespread use, and as of 2005 efforts are underway to produce an updated standard. The IMAP protocol can also be used for reading newsgroups.
Enhancements:
- Reading messages is not stopped if reading a message failed.

shn2make works with sets of shn or flac audio files and the make program to automate the process of burning shn archive CD-Rs, audio CD-Rs and the encoding of lossy mp3 and ogg-vorbis files.
shn and flac are lossless audio compression formats. shn and flac are commonly used for distribution of high-quality live recordings of "trade friendly" bands. You will find many via etree.org , or in USENET groups like alt.binaries.gdead.
shn and flac file sets are typically distributed with a .nfo or .txt file which contains the set list and other information.
Shn2make finds all the shn or flac files in the current directory and checks thier md5 checksums. Then shn2make looks for the .nfo or .txt file, and trys to figure out the song names and corresponding disc and track numbers. The song names are matched against available shn/flac files. Finally, if all the files check ok and everything is complete and makes sense a Makefile is created.
Using this Makefile with the standard "make" utility, various tedious sequences of tasks can be automatically performed on the set of shn or flac files. For example archiving the set to CD, or encoding all the songs to mp3 with the correct names.
Enhancements:
- When wodim is available, it is used instead of cdrecord.

Poesia provides an Internet content filter.
Public Opensource Environment for a Safer Internet Access (POESIA) is an Internet content filter, partly funded by the European Commission.
POESIA filters harmful content in several channels (Web, email, Usenet news). It combines innovative technologies to achieve more effective filtering than other products.
Filtering covers a range of modes, including image filtering, natural language text filtering, URLs, PICs, and JavaScript filtering.
The filter will initially be deployed in English, Italian, and Spanish. Additional work is required to cover other European languages.
Enhancements:
- All:
- Bug 1447402 fix: chown all installation directories, because they had root privillegies.
- Monitor:
- Bug fix: corrected the client IP address in displayed history to the parsed value from X-Client-IP header provided by Shweby
- Bug fix: forwarding multiple headers like "Set-Cookie" because they are needed by web applications like Sourceforge, phpMySQL and Mantis.
- Bug fix: Detection of the content type both with Content-Type header and file extension, because some sites ommit the Content-Type header
- Bug fix: if the header value is " ", the Misc.clean() method kills the running thread.
- Limit the number of dispalyed items in history.
- Alternate colors when displaying history.
- Adding enabled option in filters and database, at start time only.
- Shweby:
- Sending X-Client-IP header to the monitor.
- Bug fix: we forgot to send content-length header when null body.
- Bug 1447413 fix: send error page when HTTPS protocol is requested.
- Italian:
- Bug fix: SIGSEGV when the monitor disconnects.
- Removed the MySQL connection and replaced it by an XML configuration file.

Cone project is a text-based mail client. Cone seamlessly handles multiple POP3, IMAP accounts, and local mail folders.
Cone is also a simple newsreader. Cones interface is foolproof enough to be used by inexperienced users, but it also offers advanced features for power users.
Main features:
- An online tutorial provides a quick overview of Cones main features.
- A built-in text editor for editing new messages, with search/replace and spell checking (requires aspell or pspell).
- Shortcuts - assign frequently used text to a function key, or to an abbreviation. Insert the text by pressing the function key or typing its abbreviation.
- Supports UTF-8 consoles (requires the wide-character version of the curses library).
- Displays HTML mail, with automatic de-moronization ("smart quotes", and similar clutter, is replaced by plain garden-variety punctuation).
- Displays attached images, if invoked from an X terminal, by running Gnomes eog, or KDEs kview image viewer. Displays PDF attachments by running xpdf. Other, or alternative, helper applications will be added as time permits.
- After attachments are downloaded, they can be optionally removed from the message.
- Handles local mail folders, maildirs, IMAP and POP3 accounts, and Usenet newsgroups. All folders are shown in a hierarchical tree-like display.
- Supports access to servers through a Socks 5 proxy, using the Courier Socks 5 API toolkit.
- Sends mail using an external SMTP server (with/without authentication), or the local sendmail command.
- All network protocols support SSL/TLS and SASL (CRAM-MD5, CRAM-SHA1, and LOGIN).
- Address books (which can be stored in an IMAP folder).
- Remote configuration (share a common configuration between different instances of Cone).
- An optional "single sign-on". Use a single master password for multiple remote mail server accounts.
- PGP/GPG based encryption, and digital signatures. Sent messages are automatically signed. Different signing keys may be selected for different mail accounts, and the appropriate key is automatically selected when replying to a message from an account. Selecting a message for an encryption automatically looks up keys that match the recipients E-mail addresses.
- Import, export, forward and receive PGP/GPG keys as MIME attachments.
- When a single sign-on master password is installed, the master password also handles access to passphrase-protected keys.
- Cone shares a lot of its code base with the Courier mail server, which is why they share the same web site together.
- Cone also serves as a platform for development of a new experimental network mail access protocol, SMAP, that offers additional functionality not available with IMAP or POP3.
- Cone owes its versatility in handling a large variety of mail protocols to the fact that its based on LibMAIL, a generic C++ library that provides a high-level mail-handling API. Using the --with-devel configuration setting installs the LibMAIL toolkit, which allows for development of independent E-mail software.
Enhancements:
- This release fixes a bug in GPG signing of multi-part messages whose main content contains 8-bit text.

wumpus project is an exact clone of the classic wumpus maze game. Its a bit of retrocomputing nostalgia.
wumpus rescue lifeboats lost in interstellar space. wumpus superhack is a faithful transcription of the 1974 game WUMPUS for the Atari, the first computer game to maintain a consistent external map.
It is an exact clone, even down to the godawful user interface, of an ancient classic game. This version fixes two minor bugs in an earlier 1992 USENET posting of the source.
This package also includes superhack, which is a structurally similar game with a different premise.
Enhancements:
- Modern packaging was added.

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:"