From: "Robert A. Yetman" <boby@pixi.com> Subject: suck-3.9.0 - retrieve news from remote NNTP server Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 09:27:30 GMT -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- This is to announce the release of suck-3.9.0. PREFACE ======= Original Author - Tim Smith (address unknown) Maintainers - March 1995 - Sven Goldt (address unknown) July 1995 - Robert A. Yetman (boby@pixi.com) Current Maintainer - boby@pixi.com Japanese Docs - Motoharu Kubo (mkubo@3ware.co.jp) Spanish Docs - Simon Mudd (sjmudd@redestb.es) Abraham Nevado (nevado@redestb.es) LOCATION ======== visit http://www.pixi.com/~boby/index.html to download the latest version or view the README file. FTP Sites: Site1 = sunsite.unc.edu Path1 = /pub/Linux/system/news/transport File1 = suck-3.9.0.tar.gz Site2 = tsx-11.mit.edu Path2 = /pub/linux/sources/sbin File2 = suck-3.9.0.tar.gz INTRODUCTION ============ The primary use for suck is to feed a local INN or CNEWS server, without the remote NNTP feeding you articles. It is designed for a small, partial news feed. It is NOT designed to feed 10,000 groups and 3 Gigs of articles a day. This package contains software for copying news from an NNTP server to your local machine, and copying replies back up to an NNTP server. The suck/rpost combination allows you to run your own INN/CNEWS site, controlling where you get your news, and where you post outgoing articles. Suck/rpost use only standard NNTP commands that are used by your favorite news reader (tin, xvnews, strn) such as POST and ARTICLE. If you can use tin or xvnews against a NNTP site, than you can use Suck/Rpost. suck Pull a small newsfeed from an NNTP server lpost Gives one article fetched by suck to the local server. rpost Posts article(s) to a remote NNTP server testhost Check to see what commands your host recognizes or get the active or new list. lmove * NEW * put articles in news/group/number format. MAJOR CHANGES FROM 3.8.0 -> 3.9.0 ================================= * All packages. Fixed the problem with Linux/Glibc and possibly SCO systems. You shouldn't need the _POSIX_SOURCE and _BSD_SOURCE any more in config.h * Suck - - added -AL option. This option reads the activelist from a local file, instead of the localhost. This is handy if you don't run an NNTP server. - - added -z option. This option causes suck to skip the dedupe phase. Useful only on slow machines where it takes longer to dedupe than to download the messages. Not recommended. - - added -x option. Another Kludge to help those poor souls who have to use M$News server. This option tells suck to skip the check for a > on the MsgID, since M$ truncates the MsgID to 72 characters, and the closing > may not always be there. Warning- this may affect the deduping, since I don't have the entire MsgID to go by, I may decide that two articles are dupes, when they may not be. - - modified the code that reads the body of the articles, again in response to a problem with the M$News server. It allows NULLS in its articles, so I had to deal with them. - - added -B option. This option causes suck to batch up any messages that may be left in its data directory, possibly from a failed attempt, before starting a new download. There are some gotchas with this, read the man page. - - massive internal changes to the killfile code. This was necessitated by the addition of three new killfile parameters, BODY, BODYSIZE> and BODYSIZE<, to kill messages based on text in the body or the size of the body. Added code to handle multiple HEADER: and BODY: lines in killfile. See man pages for details on these two parameters. * Testhost - - added -q option to supress opening connection messages. Using this option with the -a option will create an active list suitable for use by most servers. * Lmove - - swapped the highnr and lownr numbers in the param file, to make it look like a real active file. * Rpost - - fixed bug which caused coredump if time out on upload of message. * All programs - - Added a version number to the phrase file. This is to prevent using an outdated phrase file. Its basically the current version number of suck. Run 'make phrases' to see what it looks like. While doing this, I fixed some minor bugs in the loading of phrases that caused the wrong set of phrases to be loaded. - - Various bug fixes, code tightening, more tests to make sure everything is going okay. See CHANGELOG for the gory details. MAILING LIST! ============= Thanks to Motoharu Kubo (mkubo@3ware.co.jp), there is now a mailing list for suck. It is intended as a place to discuss problems, etc, plans, and other issues related to suck. Its address is "suck-ml@3ware.co.jp". To subscribe to the mailing list, send a mail message to majordomo@3ware.co.jp with the message text reading "subscribe suck-ml" boby@pixi.com (Robert A. Yetman) - -- This article has been digitally signed by the moderator, using PGP. http://www.iki.fi/mjr/cola-public-key.asc has PGP key for validating signature. Send submissions for comp.os.linux.announce to: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov PLEASE remember a short description of the software and the LOCATION. This group is archived at http://www.iki.fi/liw/linux/cola.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNN7MAlrUI/eHXJZ5AQFhWgP8DHp5Z5/GDf/hNkWVqu2sSc3n+z8PiRge CI1RIxPFdBg7KE8pRAyDXHewzo4P1ms8JCVlNp/ogd+2zXorNXtuFK+t/h2+J+T/ L+jWnH0/HZ6nLJSeitPVtrV2zkVxlm2CGSKPaJf9fEIpg0MdfZC+qJgyrMWsFMwo fK46jrLuP38= =SZsg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----