Documentation for a Tcllib module that allows one to interact as a client using nntp can be found at http://tcllib.sourceforge.net/doc/nntp.html
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RFC 977 [http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc977.html] governs NNTP.
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The following software packages attempt to use nntp:

 What: knews
 Where: http://avonlea.kanga.org/tcl/ [[This url currently not active - anyone have an updated one?]]
 Description: Proof of concept NNTP server written in itcl.
 Updated: 05/2000
 Contact: mailto:dacut@kanga.org 

 What: newsflash
 Where: http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/ftparchive/sorted/packages-7.6/net/newsflash-0.2/newsflash-0.2.tar.gz 
 Description: A NNTP newsreader written using Tcl/Tk.  It has article
        threading, multiple newsrc files, article decoding.  It does
        not yet support killfiles, moderated newsgroup posting, email
        replies, multi-article save/uudecode, searching, or documentation.
        Requires Tcl 7.4/Tk 4.0, BLT 1.7, [incr tcl] 1.5 and
        tcl-dp 3.2.
 Updated: 02/1997
 Contact: mailto:koert@cais.com (Koert Zeilstra)

 What: Newsspy
 Where: ftp://134.93.129.91/pub/newsspy/newsspy-1.0.tgz [[No longer at this URL - anyone have an updated one?]]
 Description: A Tcl program to connect to a NNTP news server and scan
        article headers for special keywords.  If found, read article
        and append to a file.  Can be invoked from cron.
 Contact: mailto:hofmann@vipmza.physik.uni-mainz.de (hofmann)

 What: TclNNTPD
 Where: http://www.utcorp.net/opensource/tclnntpd/ 
 Description: Tcl script NNTP news server, conforming to RFC 822, 977, 1036,
        supporting some common NNTP extensions, authentication, newsgroup
        mirroring, etc.
        Currently at version 0.9 .
 Updated: 10/2001
 Contact: mailto:sreilly@utcorp.net (Scott Reilly)

 What: xnewscan
 Where: From the contact
 Description: xnewscan is a Tk interface to the newscan program, which
        scans an NNTP server using user provided patterns for matching
        articles.  This is now part of the newscan 2.0 release.
 Contact: mailto:jfm@rahul.net (John McGowan)

 What: nntp
 Where: http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/ftparchive/sorted/net/NNTP/0.01/
 Description: Tcl only NNTP client library sufficient to create a simple
        news reader.  Minimal testing done to date.
 Updated: 09/1999
 Contact: mailto:mckay@gmr.com (Neil D. McKay)
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The following attempt to provide access to news articles:

 What: arTCLs
 Where: http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/ftparchive/sorted/packages-7.6/net/artcls/artcls.tar.gz 
 Description: a Tcl/Tk-based Usenet news reader
 Updated: 02/1997
 Contact: mailto:mh@wx.gtegsc.com (Mike Hoegeman)

What: newselect
Where: http://www2.awinc.com/users/bvdpoel/ 
Description: Tcl/Tk program that uses the existing Netscape newsgroup database
        to view the available newsgroups and pick the ones to which you
        wish to subscribe and adds them to your Netscape newsrc file.
        Works with Tcl 7.x/Tk 4.x.
Updated: 11/1996
Contact: mailto:bvdpoel@awinc.com (Bob van der Poel)



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 Updated: July 2002
 All of the above links are dead, except the one for nntp by Neil D. McKay.

js

''Are you sure?  All but kanga work for me... -jcw''
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''When I try the ftp sites, from IE browser (MS Windows) the sites are
not reachable. js''
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[LV] I am finding neosoft.com unreachable right now and the other URLs
appear to no longer be available.  Apparently there are not many/any 
active tcl projects making use of nntp.

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