'''NNTP''', or '''N'''etwork '''N'''ews '''T'''ransfer '''P'''rotocol, is a
protocol for [usenet] news server and client communication.
** Documentation **
[RFC] [http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc977.html%|%977, Network News Transfer Protocol]:
** See Also **
[Simple News Posting Program]:
[http://www.elfqrin.com/hacklab/pages/nntpserv.php%|%list of free NNTP servers]:
[http://www.giganews.com/usenet.html%|%What is Usenet?]:
[http://www.giganews.com/usenet-glossary/%|%Usenet glossary]:
[http://www.cs.gmu.edu/~offutt/hints-net-write.html%|%Hints on Writing Style for Usenet]:
** User Agents **
[A Message User Agent], by [PYK]: browse NTTP groups and read messages. Features navigation through threads. Post feature coming soon. Hopefully works on small screens with [Androwish] (untested).
[a little NNTP reader]: notable for being very small, almost trivial, with commensurate functionality
[A Snit News Ticker Widget]:
[Simple Newsreader] ,by [NEM]:
** Tools **
[TclNNTPD]: a news server written in [Tcl]
** Tcllib **
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
* http://docs.activestate.com/activetcl/8.5/tcllib/nntp/nntp.html
** pr2nntp: **
http://pr2nntp.sourceforge.net/%|%pr2nntp is a gateway from RSS to NNTP and RSS
readers killer. It is quite flexible, easy to use, and easy to maintain.
With the power of pr2nntp you can view all your feeds in your favorite news
client. This means you may delete forever any RSS reader!
*** Requirements ***
* Russian language. Sic. The reason is that all documentation of pr2nntp doesn't come in English in current release (sorry...);
* NNTP server;
* Tcl 8.5;
* tDOM 0.8;
* HTTP downloader (wget or similar);
* md5 command line checksum maker;
* converter from HTML to plain text (for example, elinks browser).
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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 |
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| What:| newsflash|
| Where:| ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/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)|
[HJG] 2009-09-30 - Dead link
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| 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)|
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[TclNNTPD]
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| 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)|
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| What:| nntp|
| Where:| ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/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:| ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/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)|
[HJG] 2009-09-30 - Dead link
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|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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| What:| nn-tk|
| Where:| http://www.general.uwa.edu.au/u/toivo/nn-tk <
> ftp://ftp.uwa.edu.au/pub/nn/nn-tk/ <
> ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/net/nn-tk.15.5/nn-tk.15.5.tar.gz |
| Description:| A Tk interface to nn (net newsreader). It allows the use of exmh to post news, as well as to send and read MIME and PGP email messages as well as to turn URLs into buttons for passing to Netscape or other browsers. Supports Tk 4.x You may need to update to the latest version of exmh to get the support for all of nn-tk's features. Be sure to keep checking back at the ftp site for new releases.|
| Updated:| 08/1998|
| Contact:| mailto:toivo@ucs.uwa.edu.au (Toivo Pedaste)|
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| What:| NR|
| Where:| http://www.cs.umn.edu/%7Eherlocke/nr/nr.html |
| Description:| Tcl/Tk based graphical newsreader. It provides support for multiple fonts and colors, MIME display of articles, true threading, multiple groups at one time, multiple newsgroup profiles, news filtering, grouplens, and more.|
| Contact:| mailto:herlocke@cs.umn.edu (Jon Herlocker)|
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| What:| skim|
| Where:| ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/News/readers/skim-0.8.4.tar.gz |
| Description:| A Tk offline newsreader designed to work over SLIP/PPP lines. Depends on Tcl 7.4/Tk 4.0.|
| Contact:| mailto:R.W.Pijlman@inter.NL.net (Rene Pijlman)|
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| What:| TclNews|
| Where:| http://www.bringardner.com/tony/ <
> ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/net/tclnews1.0b3.tar.gz ???|
| Description:| Usenet newsgroup reader.|
| Updated:| 10/1998|
| Contact:| mailto:tony@bringardner.com (Tony Bringardner)|
What: [TKAPPS]
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| What:| tknews (Bringardner)|
| Where:| http://www.bringardner.com/tony/tknews.tar.gz |
| Description:| Tk 4.x based USENET news reader.|
| Updated:| 12/1996|
| Contact:| mailto:tony@bringardner.com (Tony Bringardner)|
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| What:| tknews (Moore)|
| Where:| ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/net/tknews.1.2b/tknews.1.2b.tar.gz <
> ftp://archive.cis.ohio-state.edu/pub/tknews/beta.94.12.19.tar.gz <
> ftp://archive.cis.ohio-state.edu/pub/tknews/tknews-2.0.6b.tar.gz |
| Description:| Tk-based news reader. In December of 1995, tknews was ported to Tk 4.0. The author has indicated that development is frozen.|
| Updated:| 02/1997|
| Contact:| mailto:mdm@cis.ohio-state.edu (Michael D. Moore)|
[HJG] 2009-09-30 - Dead link
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Updated: July 2002
All of the above links are dead, except the one for nntp by Neil D. McKay.
js
''When I try the ftp sites, from IE browser (MS Windows) the sites are
not reachable. js''
I stand corrected, hm, yes, lots fail now :( -jcw
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