NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol

NTTP/UseNet Information

• USENET FAQs
• ISC-maintained newsgroups/active/control.cr l (active, control and newsgroups files)

NNTP Information

• Rahul Dhesi's software links page
• news.software.nntp newsgroup
• Report on NNTP. This page is the top page of a report done for CS 395: "Computer Networks"
• Lots of pointers to good information about newsgroups, including FAQs, style guides among other stuff.
• RFC 977 (local) or elsewhere.
• Usenet access, describes various ways to access Usenet and seeks "to unveil the mystery behind Usenet."
• book: "Administering USENET News Servers", by James McDermott and John Phillips (Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-41967-X).
• NNTP Servers on the Net: Here's a site which lists : free news servers
  1. http://mserver.lipsia.de/sdienst/html/sgroup_e.html
  2. http://www.cyberlinkz.com/hunter.html
  3. http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jwa/Open-NNTP/sitelist.html

NNTP Daemons

1. INN Current version: 2.0
   1. at The Internet Software Consortium
   2. Some Contributed INN software
   3. Dave Barr's INN Page

News Related Programs and Utilities

1. Slurp, a tool for gathering up nntp from an nntp server

FTP and WWW Sites for Software, and/or information

• Odessa State Polytechnic University /pub/network/news

Talk to a news server

     telnet newshost 119

You can usually just say "help" and get the following message:

100 Legal commands are : 
article [MessageID|Number] 
authinfo [user|pass|generic|transact] <data>
body [MessageID|Number]
date
group newsgroup
head [MessageID|Number]
help 
ihave <message-id>
last
list [active|newsgroups[wildmat]]
mode reader
newgroups yymmdd hhmmss ["GMT"] [<distributions>]
newnews wildmat yymmdd hhmmss ["GMT"] [<distributions>]
next
post
slave
stat [MessageID|number]
xhdr header [range|MessageID]
xover [range]
xreplic newsgroup/message-number[,newsgroup/message-number...]