Newspost

a usenet binary autoposter for unix

Introduction

Newspost is a usenet binary autoposter for Unix. It is meant to be an all-in-one posting solution. Using newspost, it is a one command job to encode and post as many files as you like to your favorite newsgroup.

In addition to posting files, Newspost will automatically create and post .sfv checksum files. Newspost 2.0 can create .par parity volumes, and supports both yencoding and uuencoding.

Support for .sfv files comes from cksfv. The uuencoding code is based on some of the GNU Project's code. The code for creating parity volumes comes from parchive v1.1. Good thing everything is licensed under the GPL!

News

May 5, 2003
Newspost 2.1.1 is out! This release contains a few bugfixes, most notably the extra headers (-X) option works again. Please see the changelog for a complete list of fixes.

February 13, 2003
Newspost 2.1 is now available! This release contains many bug and compilation fixes, as well as adding a new feature, "fake" posting, which allows you to generate and post sfv and par volumes for files you are not actually posting. Please see the changelog and manpage for more information.

July 22, 2002
Newspost version 2.0 has been released! This is a major rewrite and contains many new features, including generation of par files, support for both uuencoding and yencoding, and the ability to post only specific parts of files. You can see the changelog for more information, take a look at the screenshots, or just download it now! Thanks again to William McBrine for his assistance in the development of version 2.0.

July 2, 2002
Added links to two GUI newspost frontends.

May 28, 2002
Newspost version 1.20 has been released! Thanks to William McBrine for contributing this code! See the changelog for more information.

May 27, 2002
Coming Soon: Newspost v2.0... supporting automatic creation of par files, yencoding support, and many other new features!

May 27, 2002
New web page!

Screenshots

Newspost is a text app, but following are screenshots of it running in a terminal emulator, and screenshots of what the post looks like in the pan newsreader.

Version 2.0:
Generating par files, in the middle of that post, finished posting, and that post in pan.
Another post, editing the text prefix, posting, after the post, and in pan.
A post over a slower link using yencoding, after it, and that post in pan.

Version 1.20: in the middle of a post, after the post is done, and that post in pan.
Older versions: just finished a post, that post in pan.

Changelogs

version 2.x
version 1.x

Download

newspost-2.1.1.tar.gz, here's a mirror.

newspost-2.1.tar.gz

newspost-2.0.tar.gz

newspost-1.20.tar.gz

obsolete versions

Frontends

These programs are not maintained by me, so I make no promises as to how up-to-date or bug-free they are:
Gnewspost is a GUI frontend based on Gnome.
Knewspost is a GUI frontend based on KDE.

Contact

Comments, suggestions, and bug reports are welcome, but patches and bug fixes are even more welcome.
Please e-mail newspost@sdf.lonestar.org with any of the above.