🚀 go-pugleaf

neil@ogham.demon.co.uk wrote:
> dan@dangl.demon.co.uk (Dan Glover) wrote:
> >This kind of thing comes up once in a while and I've got a similar
> >requirement here for the "ultimate" news solution.  I think the answer
> >will need a lot of work, but it's a long-term project of mine.  First I
> >need to learn all about INN (I run Cnews currently, but there seems more
> >sense in developing for INN), renew my acquaintance with RFC977 and
> >related works, and become more competent in C.  Please don't hold your
> >breath.
> 
> Its not hard to write a news slurping program (a news server is another
> matter entirely of course :) that can either download entire articles or
> just the header. I wrote one and the total source code length including
> network code is just under 6K so as long as you're reasonably proficient in
> C and socket coding it shouldn't be a problem.

It is in fact not too hard to write sufficient news server software to
be able to read news in a reasonably standards compliant news reader.
I think that it is RFC977 compliant and most of the nntp common
extensions but for some unknown reason Netscape 4 does not like it.

In fact I have done just this in Perl, it also includes a slurp-type
program so that it is a complete self-contained system.  This part
allows you to specify a killfile that is written in Perl that can
reject news based on the information in the XOVER data (from,
newsgroups, subject, message-id, length).

You can try it out if you want, it is available at
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/demon/ as a tgz file containing the
scripts and a README.

-- 
Andrew.
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Andrew M. Bishop                             amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk
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