ABOUT

gloat is a simple command line utility to download usenet postings based on simple pattern matching of the title.

It it somewhat analogous to, although far less feature-filled than, a programme called `brag'. Hence the name.

Unlike brag it does no duplicate removal or part counting, it only uses a simple regular expression match. It will not gracefully re-start failed operations. It doesn't support NNTP authentication. Or a non-standard port.

However, it uses the same amount of memory (essentially, nothing) for a group with 100 messages as it does for one with 100 000 000. i.e. it scales.

gloat is intended to be used as a manual tool rather than an automatic one, together with other tools such as grep (for finding what to download), sort, less, and so on for finding out which groups exist.