Package: pimppa (0.5.8-0.3) [universe]

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Maintainer:

Ubuntu MOTU Developers (Mail Archive)

Please consider filing a bug or asking a question via Launchpad before contacting the maintainer directly.

Original Maintainer (usually from Debian):

Grzegorz Prokopski (Debian Developer)

It should generally not be necessary for users to contact the original maintainer.

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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. It's not very useful for the inferior minions of the trendy interactive.

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.
 * It's free! - GPL'ed Open Source.

Downsides (it's not perfect)

 * Software requirements. We call them formidable.
 * Installation and use. You might actually have to read some of the
   documentation.

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Architecture	Package Size	Installed Size	Files
amd64	183.8 kB	804.0 kB	[list of files]
i386	165.4 kB	736.0 kB	[list of files]

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