Suggestion please - Binary newsgroup posting software.

[Robin Laing]

jdow wrote:
> 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  Their support is so out of date that 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!
As long as it doesn't end up all over your computer.

Sorry, I will try to keep the comments down.
> 
> 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}
> 
No kidding.

But it is getting interesting with people now standing up to the RIAA 
and cases where it looks like they have over stepped the legal bounds. 
  Also that a Canadian music promoter is going to bat to defend a 
Texas family from RIAA attacks as being "bad" for their musicians.

Maybe the tides are changing.

In Canada we are allowed to share files.  We pay a tax on media to 
cover this.

BTW, Our company runs it's own nntp servers for inside work.