GoPostStuff

GoPostStuff is a simple client for posting binaries to Usenet. It's pretty much an attempt at a modernised version of [newsmangler] 1.

Features

• Multiple server support with multiple connections per server.
• Encrypted connection support if you like that sort of thing.
• Maxes a 100Mbit connection with relatively light CPU usage - encrypted connections will use around twice as much CPU (~18% vs ~40% of a single core on my test machine).

Requirements

• A working [Go installation] 2
• A Usenet server that allows posting

Installation

1. Initalise a directory to store Go files:

    mkdir ~/go
    export GOPATH="~/go"
   

2. Get and install GoPostStuff - this will make a ~/go/bin/GoPostStuff binary:

   go get github.com/madcowfred/GoPostStuff
   go install github.com/madcowfred/GoPostStuff
   

3. Copy sample.conf to ~/.gopoststuff.conf and edit the options as appropriate.

    cp sample.conf ~/.gopoststuff.conf
    vim ~/.gopoststuff.conf
   

4. Run GoPostStuff!

Usage

gopoststuff [-c "CONFIG"] [-d] [-s "SUBJECT"] [-v] file1 file2 ... fileN

• -c "CONFIG": Use an alternate configuration file.
• -d: Use directory posting mode. Each fileN argument must be a directory. All files in each directory will be posted using the directory name as the subject.
• -s "SUBJECT": Use subject posting mode. All files will be posted using SUBJECT as the subject. Directories supplied as arguments are always recursed into.
• -v: Verbose mode. This will spam a lot of extra debug information.

Example

Let's say you have some files that you would like to post:

• Cool Files/
  • cool.rar
  • cool.r00
  • cool.r01
  • cool.sfv

You can post it with the subject "Cool Files" like so:

gopoststuff -d "Cool Files"

or with a different subject like so:

gopoststuff -s "This is a different subject" "Cool Files"