NNTP


Dec. 4, 2017

Resurrecting suck

I stumbled upon an old bug in the openSUSE bugzilla. It was a proposal to add IPv6 support to a package named suck. Funny name, what is it about? Turns out its an NNTP client. NNTP, the protocol behind the USENET. Often heard about the USENET, never used it, never looked into it. Reason enough to check this package out. I saw that several distributions still have suck in their repositories all with some patches.