jdow wrote:
From: "Robin Laing" <Robin.Laing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hello,
I have searched and checked the major repositories for this but I have
not had any luck.
I want a program to post multipart, rar'd and yenc encoded files to
the alt.binary.* groups. I would prefer a graphical front end but I
have not really found anything that is current.
I did find newspost and I am going to give it a try. It compiled last
night.
http://newspost.unixcab.org/
There is supposed to be a front end for Gnome and KDE but I could not
get them to compile last night. Their support is so out of date that
they are looking for things in places that don't exist on FC4.
Yea I can use Pine or other manual techniques but these are a real
pain when uploading a 3gig multimedia file.
Thank you.
Please don't do this to me when I am drinking fluids!
As long as it doesn't end up all over your computer.
Sorry, I will try to keep the comments down.
I hearken back to the days when use(less)net postings were limited to
32k - text. So I sat here envisioning some poor desperate sod trying
to upload 100,000 messages containing his "multimedia file."
(By the way, this was just mentioned in "Hollywood Reporter" recently.
I just lost it giggling over the concept. Anyway, Hollywood is aware
of the activity. Watch for it to get interesting with regards to
downloaders and the RIAA from Hell.)
{o.o}
No kidding.
But it is getting interesting with people now standing up to the RIAA
and cases where it looks like they have over stepped the legal bounds.
Also that a Canadian music promoter is going to bat to defend a
Texas family from RIAA attacks as being "bad" for their musicians.
Maybe the tides are changing.
In Canada we are allowed to share files. We pay a tax on media to
cover this.
BTW, Our company runs it's own nntp servers for inside work.
