The primary use for suck is to feed a local NNTP server, without the remote NNTP feeding you articles.  It is designed for a small, partial news feed.  It is NOT designed to feed 10,000 groups and 3 Gigs of articles a day.

This package contains software for copying news from an NNTP server to your local machine, and copying replies back up to an NNTP server.  It works with most standard NNTP servers, including INN, CNEWS, DNEWS, and typhoon

INN (InterNetNews) is a full-featured and flexible news server package, originally written by Rich Salz in 1991 as a higher performance alternative to C News.

Newsd is a standalone local NNTP news server for private newsgroup serving on a single server. - erco77/newsd

offers access to usenet

Zero to newsgroup walkthrough

Web based usenet

Alex's web front-ended mini news server

news.eternal-september.org is a private project providing free access to text-only Usenet News.