• AI Generated Usenet Client in Python

    From street@street@shellcrash.com to comp.lang.python on Fri Dec 19 20:54:33 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.python

    AI Generated Usenet Client in Python
    If you have any improvements to this or helpful ideas I would like to see them. https://github.com/alt-magick/Newsgroup-Client-/
    #!/usr/bin/env python3
    import nntplib
    import sys
    import termios
    import tty
    import re
    import quopri
    import base64
    from email.message import EmailMessage
    import os
    import tempfile
    import subprocess
    # ================= USER CONFIG =================
    NNTP_SERVER = "usnews.blocknews.net"
    NNTP_PORT = 563
    USERNAME = ""
    PASSWORD = ""
    PAGE_LINES = 12
    MAX_ARTICLES_LIST = 200
    MAX_REPLY_SCAN = 300
    START_GROUP = "alt.test"
    SHOW_REPLY_COUNT = False
    SHOW_REPLY_COUNT_MAIN = True
    # ==============================================
    RE_REPLY = re.compile(r"^(re|fwd):", re.IGNORECASE)
    CLEAN_RE = re.compile(r"[