Suck

• get-news(8) Debian Suck front end
• lmove(1) move articles into /news/group/number directories
• rpost(1) post an article to an NNTP news server
• suck(1) Pull a small newsfeed from an NNTP server, avoiding the NEWNEWS command.
• testhost(1) test the status of an NNTP news server