Subversion

You can access this project with Subversion at https://svn.madcowdisease.org/mcd/newsmangler/trunk.

What is it?

newsmangler is a Usenet client (posting only right now). Originally written to fix a lack of client for non-Windows systems that can do posting on multiple connections. Tested on Linux/FreeBSD, but should work on most systems with Python 2.3 or later.

Features

Uses multiple connections and tries to keep them all busy.
Doesn't need any wacky extra modules for Python. It can use Psyco or yenc modules to increase speed, but they're not required.

Requirements

Python 2.3 or later
Optional: Psyco for a ~30% article encoding speed boost.
Optional: modified version of Allesandro Duca's yenc library for a 65-70% article encoding speed boost.

Installation

Unpack the archive somewhere: tar zxvf newsmangler-blah.tar.gz
Change to the newsmangler-blah directory.
Copy defaults.conf to ~/.newsmangler.conf.
Edit the options in your .newsmangler.conf to suit your tastes.
Run it and read the usage information: python leecher.py or python poster.py.

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