leafnode or leafsite maybe.
http://leafnode.sourceforge.net/
Colin Paul Adams wrote:
After having problems upgrading from FC1 to FC2, I decided to do a fresh install. Of course, I kept my /home partition, and archived /etc.
But I forgot about the program I used to fetch the news. In fact, I
forget what program it was (I had a shell script called getnews, but I
forget what program it invoked).