How to test your Usenet Server: Slut 0.3

Have you ever looked for a program for testing your newsgroup server? If you have a list of free news servers and you'd like to test them quickly, you had to manually configure your News reader client each time. Now there is a small and simple program for Windows that performs quick and effective tests of any NNTP compliant News Server: Simple Little Usenet Test (SLUT).
This piece of software is still in early stage of development (current version is 0.3), but it already allows you to perform the following tests:

Connect to your news server. This should verify that the news server name and account settings are correct.

Select a newsgroup. Selects a group on the server. This verifies that your account access is sufficient to select the group.

Download Headers. Requests the XOVER headers from the newsgroup. This ensures that you have the appropriate access to retrieve newsgroup headers.

Download Message Body. Downloads one of the messages from the newsgroup. This verifies that you have the appropriate access to retrieve newsgroup messages. The downloaded message is automatically discarded; it is note stored on your computer.

The software is released as freeware and can be downloaded from the following link.