Light newsgroup software

Hi Foxes,

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.