[Pan-users] Re: Automatic binary download

[Graham]

I don't know if its exactly what you want, but take a look at
getbinnews, which was designed round this sort of need.

Here is a list of features from the webpage:

    *  Connection support
          o definition of name and port of news server
          o definition of user and password to connect the news server
          o times reconnection in some cases (timeout, connection error
or connection reject)          
          o number of connections
          o bandwidth throttle
    * Dialer
          o connection and deconnection to internet
    * Filter
          o filter by fields
          o filter by size
          o filter by size of articles
          o filter if incomplete
          o filter if part 1 is missing
          o filter if more than n articles
    * Search newsgroups
          o search newsgroups on server
          o search/filter newsgroups by regex expression
          o search by wildmat
    * Search for article
          o selection of all articles of a file (right click)
          o search for subject
          o filter for subject
          o number of articles to download.
          o number of selected articles (right click)
    * Decode methods
          o yenc support
          o uuencode support
          o base64 support
          o mime support
    * Files

          o definition of files directory
          o definition of articles directory
          o cleanup articles
          o cleanup files
          o behavior if files exist.
          o behavior if not enough space
          o don't delete articles.
    * Newsgroups
          o download list of newsgroups
    * Group List
          o Definition of newsgroups list to search articles.
          o personnalisation of search for a particular newsgroups
    * Scheduler
          o Schedule periodic search (daily, weekly, or monthly)
          o Schedule non periodic search
          o hang up internet connection at end of the search.
    * History
          o Creation of an history file to stop download articles
already download    

        * hide button to stop search.

Get it from www.getbinnews.com

Its built around gtk and doesn't have a "newsreader" interface and you
could get ads running unless you also run a proxy filter (such as
bfilter).

HTH

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Graham