About:
Newsstar fetches news and posts it to a local news server: INN, s-news, and sn are supported. What makes newsstar special is that it can make multiple simultaneous connections, not only to one server, but to several, supporting up to 10 "threads". Before fetching each article, it checks that it hasn't already been downloaded by another thread or in a previous session. It can also "pipeline" article requests to make better use of available bandwidth. SSL is supported.

Author:
Tony Houghton [contact developer]

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8.08/10.00 (2 votes)

Homepage:
http://newsstar.sourceforge.net
Tar/GZ:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/newsstar/newsstar-1.5.0.tar.gz
Changelog:
http://newsstar.sourceforge.net/news.html
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://newsstar.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/newsstar/
Bug tracker:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=92322&atid=600338

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		POSIX :: Linux
[Programming Language]		C, Perl
[Topic]		Communications :: Usenet News

Dependencies: [change]
Perl (required)
ncurses (recommended)
INN (optional)
OpenSSL (optional)
s-news (optional)
sn (optional)
[download links]

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	1.5.0	24-Jun-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)