a good Linux news program for posting binaries?

jnorvell · 04-01-2010, 05:34 PM

It seems strange to me that there are so few newsreader programs for Linux that are good for posting binaries, if they do it at all. For a community with such an ethos of sharing, there sure are a lot of "grab"-only newsreaders!

I have used newspost a lot in the past, but I encounter fatal errors when connecting through stunnel, as I now tend to do, and development seems to be dead with that program. Can anyone recommend any other program - console, X, whatever - that will post multipart binary files?

--jnorvell

penguiniator · 04-01-2010, 07:59 PM

Newspost is the only one I know of, and it is dead. I have contacted its author and got one response offering to let me take over development if I was interested. There used to be GNOME and KDE gui front ends to it, but those are dead as well. There is a Mac OS X gui front end to it that is sold as shareware for around $30, IIRC. But these front ends all require manual setup and severely limit how the program operates.