Requesting a reference for a book on NNTP

[Jim Richardson]

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On 24 Jul 2002 18:52:51 -0700,
 TuxTrax <bogusdrop at myself.com> wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I am beginning a project in python, that will require a greater
> understanding of NNTP protocols (and python!) than I currently
> possess. It is a definite learning process and I suspect it will take
> me a long time to have a working beta up and running.
> 
> I need to learn how clients query nntp servers for specific messages,
> what protocols are involved, how those protocols and commands are
> used, syntax involved, authentication methods: in short, I need a book
> that will teach me everything I would need to know to write a
> newsreader (as far as interfacing with the usenet servers are
> concerned), although that is not the project I am embarking on.
> 
> Since I know that many programmers both amateur and professional, are
> active and lurking, I would like to ask for a reference to a good
> *beginners* book on the subject of NNTP and usenet that helps the
> inexperienced to understand the information.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Mathew
> 
> Xposted to comp.lang.python, comp.os.linux.advocacy


Check out the nntplib module in python

<quote from python docs>
                     11.10 nntplib -- NNTP protocol client
                                      
   
   This module defines the class NNTP which implements the client side of
   the NNTP protocol. It can be used to implement a news reader or
   poster, or automated news processors. For more information on NNTP
   (Network News Transfer Protocol), see Internet RFC 977.
   

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unless you really *want* to reinvent the wheel :)


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Jim Richardson
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