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Sucks
Pull news from a remote NNTP server
- Operating system
- Linux
- File size
- 0 KB
- License
- Not Specified
- Last updated
- Apr 26, 2026
248 downloads·675 page views
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Overview
What is Sucks?
Pull news from a remote NNTP server
In depth
A closer look at Sucks
INTRODUCTION
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The primary use for suck is to feed a local NNTP 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. It works with most standard NNTP servers, including INN, CNEWS, DNEWS, and typhoon.
The suck/rpost combination allows you to run your own 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 put articles in news/group/number format.
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The primary use for suck is to feed a local NNTP 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. It works with most standard NNTP servers, including INN, CNEWS, DNEWS, and typhoon.
The suck/rpost combination allows you to run your own 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 put articles in news/group/number format.
Verdict
Should you download Sucks?
Sucks runs on Linux and is available under the Not Specified license — the installer is 0 KB. We’ve catalogued it under News.
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At a glance
Sucks specifications
- Category
- News
- Publisher
- home.att.net/~bobyetman
- Last updated
- Apr 26, 2026
- License
- Not Specified
- Operating system
- Linux
- File size
- 0 KB
- Price
- Free
- Page views
- 675
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