End of Support

I am no longer planning on updating or maintaining this. I have moved to nyuu. There is lack of support or compatibility in some VPS technologies that make this non-viable to keep up. I was going to write some wrappers that emulate mmap on Windows and older Kernels or certain vm and container technologies, but nyuu exists and works for my needs.

GoPostStuff-abook

GoPostStuff-abook is a simple client for posting binaries to Usenet, written in Go. If you've seen/used [newsmangler] 1, imagine that but faster. This is an updated version of [GoPostStuff] 2.

Features

• Multiple server support with multiple connections per server.
• Native TLS support so you don't need to use stunnel or equivalent frippery.
• Fast: a basic Linode VPS can push 250Mbit of TLS-encrypted data while using 50-60% of a single CPU (Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz).

Requirements

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

Installation

1. Initialize a directory to store Go files:

    mkdir ~/go
    export GOPATH=~/go
   

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

   go get github.com/ShrekIsLoveLife/gopoststuff-abook/
   go install github.com/ShrekIsLoveLife/gopoststuff-abook/
   

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

    cp ~/go/src/github.com/ShrekIsLoveLife/gopoststuff-abook/sample.gopoststuff.conf ~/.gopoststuff.conf
    vim ~/.gopoststuff.conf
   

4. Run gopoststuff-abook!

Usage

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

• -c "CONFIG": Use an alternate configuration file.
• -allcpus: Use all CPUs for stuff [ALPHA]
• -cpuprofile "file": Write CPU profiling information to 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.
• -g "GROUP": Post to GROUP instead of the global/DefaultGroup config option. (comma separated)
• -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.
• -version: prints the current gps version.
• -nzb "test.nzb": Create nzb file after posting.
• -rarpw "PASSWORD": Add password for rar archives to nzb head.
• -server "SERVER": Use specified server to post
• -version: prints the current gopoststuff-abook version.
• -host: Hostname to use in Message-ID
• -prefix: String to place at the start of every subject line - a space will be added.
• -from: The 'From' address to put on posts.
• -from: The 'From' address to put on posts.
• -flushcon: The time in seconds between temporary disconnects from the Usenet Server to prevent timeouts. (default 5000)
• -waittime: The waiting time in seconds time before re-connect for flushcon. (default 10)

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-abook -d "Cool Files"

or with a different subject like so:

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