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Newsstar fetches news and posts it to a local server; INN, s-news and sn are
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supported, and it should be easy to adapt for other servers with some
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configuration and extra scripts. It's designed for Unix-like systems, and all
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the development was done on Linux.
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There are already plenty of other programs to do this, but what makes newsstar
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special is that it can make multiple simultaneous connections, not only to
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one server, but to several, supporting up to 10 threads. Before fetching each
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article it checks that it hasn't already been downloaded by another thread or
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in a previous session. It can also pipeline article requests to make better
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use of available bandwidth.
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I wrote it because a number of ISPs I have used suffer from unreliable
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newsfeeds. There is an excellent free server made available by
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news.individual.net, but it can be a bit slow at times, and using external
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servers uses more bandwidth. Therefore I wanted a program which could fetch
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whatever articles my ISP has available, but use the foreign server to avoid
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missing posts or getting them very late, and to do it as fast as possible.
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WWW: http://newsstar.sourceforge.net/
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