Sunday, June 05, 2011
Light newsgroup software
Hi Foxes,
Tired of heavy newsgroup clients such as pan, grabit and so on...let's have a try to;
I'm using stunnel on the top to add SSL feature. I prefer to do so, because I think that stunnel is well optimize about speed and memory usage compare to any homemade implemantation in a third software. I prefer to use the a dedicated software for that when it is possible.
About the configuration of the softwares, it is regular config files. You can have a look to :
Tired of heavy newsgroup clients such as pan, grabit and so on...let's have a try to;
- slrn, a blazing fast newsgroup reader. It downloads messages very quickly, it is very easy to use it and with a lot of features.
- nzbget very efficient to donwloads binary files using newsgroup. It is light and impressive.
- nget may be a useful software, but I have not found it easy to use.
I'm using stunnel on the top to add SSL feature. I prefer to do so, because I think that stunnel is well optimize about speed and memory usage compare to any homemade implemantation in a third software. I prefer to use the a dedicated software for that when it is possible.
About the configuration of the softwares, it is regular config files. You can have a look to :
- slrn
- slrn manual,"nnrpaccess host[:port] username password " to avoid to type your login and your password at every connection
- how to from the ubuntu community
- nget : quick tutorial from ubuntu forum
- nzbget : everything is on the main website.
Labels: gnus, grabit, newsgroup, nget, nntp, nzbget, pan, slrn
# posted by Phil @ 11:01 PM 
