Simple news command piper (default). Or, for adanced users - simple telnet command piper.

Default:

  Gets a list of supported newsgroups from given server
  - a news 'list' cmd is given to requested server & output is piped to STDOUT.
 
 Abilities:
 
 Could be mustered to pipe to STDOUT any other news command that doesn't ask for interaction
 while giving its output and finish output by empty string. With changing the port (and if 
 required - a line separator there's possiblility to pipe to stdout any telnet oriented 
 protocol command to STDOUT.

 I wrote it at the moment I was choosing a good news server from http://www.newzbot.com/ .
 Hopefully it may be usefull for others. Tested w/ innd 2.4.2,  MAY work w/ others.
 Though didn't 've any troubles while using for my case.

 License is GNU GPL. (c) Olli Artemjev http://www.livejournal.com/users/grey_olli .
 Thanks to:
			Authors & developers of perl, Net::Telnet, Getopt::Long.
			Special thanks to rserg (http://www.livejournal.com/users/rserg).
 
 You may write to me  olli@digger.org.NOSPAMru (remove NOSPAM 1st).

 Notes:
   *. As much as it possible w/ perl ( huh! :) ) this script shouldn't eat memory on big files - 
      it parses them line by line w/o loading all the file into memory. =)
   *. ANY option configurable in script is overridable by commandline.
   *. Due to I'm too lazy to dance around perl regexps in a variable the script always finish
      on timeout. In other words the time of execution in normal case is equal to timeoute and
      is lesser if connection is dropped earlier.
   *. If debugging is enabled there'll be some noise in STDERR.

 The homepage for this script 'll be below http://olli.digger.org.ru/files/pub/programming/perl/DONE/ .


Yes, it's quite simple, but it's usefull as a part of piped set of scripts & does not require to dig into any complex system like INN or so. =) Just run '--help'. =)
 
