Suggestion please - Binary newsgroup posting software.

[jdow]

From: "Robin Laing" <Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca>

> Hello,
> 
> I have searched and checked the major repositories for this but I have 
> not had any luck.
> 
> I want a program to post multipart, rar'd and yenc encoded files to 
> the alt.binary.* groups.  I would prefer a graphical front end but I 
> have not really found anything that is current.
> 
> I did find newspost and I am going to give it a try.  It compiled last 
> night.
> 
> http://newspost.unixcab.org/
> 
> There is supposed to be a front end for Gnome and KDE but I could not 
> get them to compile last night.  Their support is so out of date that 
> they are looking for things in places that don't exist on FC4.
> 
> 
> Yea I can use Pine or other manual techniques but these are a real 
> pain when uploading a 3gig multimedia file.
> 
> Thank you.

Please don't do this to me when I am drinking fluids!

I hearken back to the days when use(less)net postings were limited to
32k - text. So I sat here envisioning some poor desperate sod trying
to upload 100,000 messages containing his "multimedia file."

(By the way, this was just mentioned in "Hollywood Reporter" recently.
I just lost it giggling over the concept. Anyway, Hollywood is aware
of the activity. Watch for it to get interesting with regards to
downloaders and the RIAA from Hell.)

{o.o}