[NNTP] [2501] Reader commands in transit servers and vice-versa

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Mon Dec 6 10:08:13 PST 2004


Charles Lindsey <chl at clerew.man.ac.uk> writes:
> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:
>> Charles Lindsey <chl at clerew.man.ac.uk> writes:

>>> For a pure suck feed using NEWNEWS, you need NEWNEWS, DATE and
>>> ARTICLE.  You might find a use for HEAD and BODY as well. But you
>>> would have no use at all for GROUP, NEXT, POST, and indeed most other
>>> reader commands

>> Once again, I have never heard of such a beast.  Do you have a pointer
>> to such an implementation?

> I use a program called 'nntpxfer', written by Brian Kantor (UCSD) and
> bundled with Stan Barber's Model NNTP implementation (and much hacked
> about by myself). I had awlays assumed that other systems using the
> NEWNEWS command worked similarly.

> Note, it uses a standard NNTP server, but only invokes those particular
> commands. But one could envisage a server cut down and optimized just to
> service that particular kind of client.

So you have not heard of such a server either, you just think that one
might possibly exist.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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