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Anime Tosho edited this page Oct 22, 2018 · 20 revisions

I haven't been able to find a list or comparison of the various Usenet binary uploaders/posters out there, so I've decided to make one. Please feel free to edit this page to improve it, amend mistakes, update information, etc.

Explanation of columns:

  • Development Status: whether the application is still actively maintained or not, based on my guess of activity
  • License Type: whether the application is commercial (pay to use), freely available, or freely available with source code (FOSS)
  • UI Type: the interface of the application, which is either a command line interface (CLI), graphical user interface (GUI) or background service (Daemon)
  • Multi Connections: whether the application supports uploading via multiple connections to speed up transfers
  • SSL: whether the application has built-in SSL support. Note that SSL support can be added to any application if a tunnel, such as stunnel, is used
  • Checking: whether the application supports checking for the existence of posts after they have been submitted to the server, as an additional measure to ensure completion
  • Archiving: whether the application supports automatically wrapping input files into an archive, such as RAR. Usually this is done by calling an external application. For applications that don't support this integration, archives can be prepared before uploading
  • PAR Support: whether the application integrates PAR file creation. For applications that don't bundle integration, PAR files can be prepared manually before upload
  • Platform/Runtime: what platform/OS the application can run under, and somewhat includes the language that the application was primarily written in. For applications which run on an interpreter, the OS will usually depend on what the interpreter can run on

Note that "Fork" indicates a feature which doesn't exist in the official version of the application, but has been added in a fork/mod of it.

Name Version Development Status License Type UI Type Multi Connections SSL NZB Checking Archiving PAR Support Platform / Runtime
EasyUSENET Uploader (archive mirror) 1.0.73 Unmaintained Free GUI Yes (max 25) Yes No No No No Windows
GoPostStuff 0.2.0 Unmaintained; forks updated FOSS (MIT) CLI Yes Yes Fork No No No Go
JBinUp 0.90 Unmaintained Free GUI Yes Yes No Yes Custom Command Custom Command Java
NewsBin 6.72 Active Commercial GUI Yes? Yes No No No No Windows
Newsmangler 2012-12-03 Unmaintained; updated forks exists FOSS CLI Yes Fork Yes No No No Python
Newspost (mirror) 2.1.1 Unmaintained FOSS (GPL2) CLI Fork No No No No PAR1 C / Any
NewsUP Latest master Active FOSS (GPL3) CLI Yes Yes Yes Yes rar par2cmdline Perl
nntpPoster 0.9.1 Active FOSS Daemon Yes Yes Yes No rar par2cmdline .NET/Mono
Nyuu 0.3.0 Active FOSS (PD) CLI Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Node.js
Sanguinews 0.8.0 Last commit on 2015-10-19 FOSS (GPL2) CLI Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Ruby
yEncBin Poster [site dead]; download 1.0.457 Unmaintained Free GUI Yes (max 25) Yes Yes No rar par2cmdline Windows
Yencee 0.17 Unmaintained FOSS (GPL2) CLI No No No No No No Perl
Ypost 0.20 Unmaintained FOSS (GPL2) CLI No No No No No No C / Any

PowerPost Based

Name Version Development Status License Type UI Type Multi Connections SSL NZB Checking Archiving PAR Support Platform / Runtime
CamelSystem PowerPost (download) 2.4 Unmaintained Free GUI Yes (max 12) No Yes No No? PAR2 Windows
PowerPost 2000 1.3 Unmaintained Free? GUI No No No No No No Windows
YEnc-Power-Post-A&A 11b Unmaintained FOSS (GPL) GUI Yes (max 4; max 52 in "Threaded" fork) No In "Threaded" fork No No PAR1/PAR2 Windows
Yenc PowerPost-GB12 12.2.7.0 Unmaintained Free? GUI Yes (max 12) No Yes Yes? No PAR1/PAR2 Windows

Here's a list of some of the PowerPost variants.

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