Pro_D
September 15th, 2009, 12:53 AM
Something of a fishing topic... I have searched around some already but haven't found a good match yet. There are SO many options too.
I am after a news (nntp) reader. At minimum it needs:
-good support for LARGE groups (the current program we use chokes on 40 days worth of headers - newsleecher)
-easily searchable
-be able to log into the news server. Several of the readers I looked at had no way to login (ie meant to work with an open nntp server).
-keep a local cache - again several didn't keep a local cache.
-save a set of article IDs to NZB file.
-Does NOT need to be able to post or read articles! Reading of non-binary articles would be a big plus though.
Additional items that would be great:
-Allow multiple groups to be 'open' at the same time, preferably not all groups at the same time though.
-web interface - even if multipart (ie needs separate reader and web interface).
-multi-user single database.
-ability to handle encrypted server connection (very low importance).
From a usability standpoint coming from newsleecher. Yes I know of it's 'super search' ability as well as searching on other websites however searching is perhaps 50% of usage at most and most sites/systems I have seen are too broad in focus.
While it would be neat if there was something like this already out there, I can probably contribute to a project that has a lot of this or has similar goals but is incomplete so don't hesitate to throw something like that up :) .
The platform I have right now:
Ubuntu-server 9.04 (was 8.04 but had series of major hardware failures).
Ubuntu-desktop is on top w/vnc (lan access only) so a standard interface becomes acceptable.
Apache for web-hosting (again, lan only)
Another alternative would be to have the our server download headers from the nntp server on the internet but ONLY from a *FEW* groups. Then we would have to find programs that allow for live access to that w/nzb support. I have done very little research on this though. What I did find made this seem infeasible.
I am after a news (nntp) reader. At minimum it needs:
-good support for LARGE groups (the current program we use chokes on 40 days worth of headers - newsleecher)
-easily searchable
-be able to log into the news server. Several of the readers I looked at had no way to login (ie meant to work with an open nntp server).
-keep a local cache - again several didn't keep a local cache.
-save a set of article IDs to NZB file.
-Does NOT need to be able to post or read articles! Reading of non-binary articles would be a big plus though.
Additional items that would be great:
-Allow multiple groups to be 'open' at the same time, preferably not all groups at the same time though.
-web interface - even if multipart (ie needs separate reader and web interface).
-multi-user single database.
-ability to handle encrypted server connection (very low importance).
From a usability standpoint coming from newsleecher. Yes I know of it's 'super search' ability as well as searching on other websites however searching is perhaps 50% of usage at most and most sites/systems I have seen are too broad in focus.
While it would be neat if there was something like this already out there, I can probably contribute to a project that has a lot of this or has similar goals but is incomplete so don't hesitate to throw something like that up :) .
The platform I have right now:
Ubuntu-server 9.04 (was 8.04 but had series of major hardware failures).
Ubuntu-desktop is on top w/vnc (lan access only) so a standard interface becomes acceptable.
Apache for web-hosting (again, lan only)
Another alternative would be to have the our server download headers from the nntp server on the internet but ONLY from a *FEW* groups. Then we would have to find programs that allow for live access to that w/nzb support. I have done very little research on this though. What I did find made this seem infeasible.