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December 30, 2001: RPM files are available, and the Makefile of 0.1.2 is slightly updated
December 28, 2001: Release of version 0.1.2
July 13, 2001: RPM's are available in the downloadsection, and newsleech.spec is removed from the archive
July 12, 2001: Release of version 0.1.2pre2, newsleech will now talk to nntpcache and you can build RPM's using the newsleech.spec file
June 6, 2001: Release of version 0.1.2pre1, now you can define aliases for often-used servers and groups (and more)
September 8, 2000: Release of version 0.1.1
August 4, 2000: Bugfix in script parsing, we now allow quotes in scripts. (version 0.1.1pre3)
July 28, 2000: Initial public release. (version 0.1.0)

Introduction

Newsleech is a non-interactive rfc977 compliant news retriever. The commandline user interface is simple yet powerful. It is entirely written in C and it should be reasonably portable. Newsleech can understand scripts in addition to commandline options.

There are two different ways to use it.

You can use newsleech directly from the commandline to retrieve a list of subjects or some articles.
You can write an 'intelligent' shell/perl/python script to retrieve subject listings analyse them and download interesting articles or downloading binary postings and uudecode them on the fly.