Re: usnet news groups

[Jude DaShiell]

Is there an accessible program available to download usenet messages? 
Everything travels in messages.  Earlier the two big formats were uuencode 
and mime.  Later yenc was added.  For downloading and building binary 
files, you need at first an accessible message reader; after that 
conversion tools, and finally something like brik to verify file integrity 
before you try anything with the files.  I've read gnus can do this on the 
mac http:/'/www.gnus.org/ and gnus may even be able to do some or all of 
its own decoding and integrity checking by now.  For gnus, you need emacs 
as a prerequisite and since emacs talks there shouldn't be any problem 
with gnus either.  That's one mail and news reader I've not yet managed to 
configure successfully.  Interestingly, it's the mail side of the 
configuration that is likely going to be a bear but the news side isn't 
too complicated.  hth.


On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Michael Babcock wrote:

hi all;
is there a program that one can use to download bynary files from news 
groups? and is it accessible?
thanks
mike