pr2nntp

1 Overview

pr2nntp is a gateway from RSS to NNTP and RSS readers killer. It is quite flexible, easy to use, and easy to maintain.

With a power of pr2nntp you can view all your feeds in your favorite news client. This means you may delete forever any RSS reader!

You don't need to belong to any specific feed tool from now and don't need to feel inconvenience while switching, for example, to another OS. Just point your news clint to your NNTP server and enjoy!

2 Releases

Current version of pr2nntp is 0.2.6. It was released on Apr, 19 12:42:08 2009. For more info, read its NEWS file.

3 Requirements

Russian language. Sic. The reason is that all documentation of pr2nntp don't come in English in current release (sorry...);
NNTP server;
Tcl 8.5;
tDOM 0.8;
HTTP downloader (wget or similar);
md5 command line checksum maker;
converter from HTML to plain text (for example, elinks browser).

Please also read 8 myths about pr2nntp.

4 Supported Platforms

pr2nntp runs on these operating systems:

FreeBSD i386

Note to Microsoft Vista users: if you want to use Vista's Mail program to read news, don't forget to get all updates from Microsoft before trying to do anything useful with it. Without that you can find some ill behaviour towards parsing of MIME bodies.

5 Download

pr2nntp can be obtained from here.

Some folks keeps asking me to show my ready-to-go configuration file. For creating all those newsgroups in it from scratch, type:

     % pr2nntp -vvs -G

6 Patches

Fix the bug with improper handling of invalid encoding.
FreeBSD port for puf-0.93.3. Read documentation to understand why you (do not) need this.

7 Screen Shots

It's something not very helpful in this case, but anyway you may want to see how it is possible to view feeds in Microsoft Mail or mutt.

8 How to Help

Please send mail to <alexander.gromnitsky.at.gmail.com> either to report a bug (particularly with strange feed that pr2nntp cannot understand) or to contribute fixes or improvements.

9 License and Copyright

Software is distributed under the terms of the X11 license (non-copyleft, but compatible with GNU General Public License). See the file LICENSE in the tarball.