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Daniel Schnaider

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Jun 4, 1997, 3:00:00 AM6/4/97
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I am trying to write an NNTP client! A program that write to NEWS but
will have some features that I am working on!
Please if you know where I can find a source of information to learn
which protocol they use, let me know.
Thank you,

Daniel


Nathan Nesbit

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Jun 6, 1997, 3:00:00 AM6/6/97
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http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/htbin/rfc/rfc977.html

should contain all the specs on NNTP for ya.
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Ross Smith

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Jun 10, 1997, 3:00:00 AM6/10/97
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Daniel Schnaider wrote:
>
> I am trying to write an NNTP client! A program that write to NEWS but
> will have some features that I am working on!
> Please if you know where I can find a source of information to learn
> which protocol they use, let me know.

Have a look at <http://ds.internic.net/ds/dspg2intdoc.html>. This has
all of the RFCs ("Requests For Comments", the nearest thing there is to
Internet standards). The one you want is RFC 977, "Network News Transfer
Protocol".

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Ross Smith ............................. <mailto:ross....@nz.eds.com>
Internet and New Media, EDS (New Zealand) Ltd., Wellington, New Zealand
"I'm as interested as anybody else in all the things no decent
person would be interested in." -- Ashleigh Brilliant

Scott Rachels

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Jun 10, 1997, 3:00:00 AM6/10/97
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You also want to be familiar with RFC 1086, which describes UseNet article
headers. At the same site mentioned above, you should also be able to
retrieve two very useful docs :
Internet Draft : "Network News Transport Protocol" by S. Barber (9/96)
Internet Draft : "Common NNTP Extensions" by S. Barber (4/97)

Ross Smith <ross....@nz.eds.com> wrote in article
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Scott Rachels

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Jun 10, 1997, 3:00:00 AM6/10/97
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I'm sorry, it should be 1036, not 1086.

Garrett Galten

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Jun 10, 1997, 3:00:00 AM6/10/97
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Daniel Schnaider <sna...@galcom.co.il> wrote:

>I am trying to write an NNTP client! A program that write to NEWS but
>will have some features that I am working on!
>Please if you know where I can find a source of information to learn
>which protocol they use, let me know.

Dave Roberts' book "Developing for the Internet with Winsock" is a
great resource for NNTP and several other protocols. Included CD
contains C++ NNTP classes and a simple news client. That should help
you get on your way.

See http://www.droberts.com/devwsock/devwsock.htm

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