Bug#148069: ITP: pimppa -- powerful tool to loot binaries from newsgroups smartly
Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2002-05-24
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : pimppa
Version : 0.5.6
Upstream Author : Igor Wronsky (iwronsky@users.sourceforge.net)
* URL : http://pimppa.sourceforge.net/
* License : GPL
Description : powerful tool to loot binaries from newsgroups smartly
PIMPPA is a tool to loot binaries from newsgroups and ftp sites. It
tries to achieve complete "hands free" operation where possible. The
system is best suited for the Connoisseur, the Collector and the
Worshipper of the Mighty Crond. Its not very useful for the inferior
minions of the trendy interactive.
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Current features:
* Attempts to skip duplicates and spam before downloading actual
messages.
* Further duplicate discarding based on filenames & MD5 checksums.
* Intelligent multipart handling, downloads only complete postings.
* Supports multiple newsservers.
* Filename-based sorting of accepted files to proper directories.
* Can be used to hunt known file series or extensions and skip the rest.
* Supports automatic file integrity testing and transformation.
* Several tools and scripts for file maintenance and viewing.
* Knowledge is kept in SQL database, making it relatively easy for you
to write your own custom scripts and utilities.
* Cronable: come back next week to check the filtered catch.
* Optional Gnome GUI.
* It's free! - GPL'ed Open Source.
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Downsides (its not perfect)
* Software requirements. We call them formidable.
* Installation and use. You might actually have to read some of the
documentation.
Note from the submitter: I know that there are some other tools
that do similar things (or seem to do - for someone not familiar with
pimppa). But I have not found any free tool that does nearly what and
how it is done by pimmpa.
BTW: It uses MySQL, suck and uudeview.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux greg.home.sente.pl 2.4.18-k6 #1 Sun Apr 14 12:43:22 EST 2002 i586
Locale: LANG=pl_PL.ISO-8859-2, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.ISO-8859-2 (ignored: LC_ALL set)
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