Internet Control Pack NNTP Client Control

The NNTP control provides a reusable component that allows applications to access NNTP news servers (such as Newsreader). It furnishes news reading and posting capabilities.

Remarks

This control allows the Microsoft Access, Visual Basic, or Visual FoxPro developper to develop applications that communicate with NNTP servers to view news groups, and retrieve and post news articles.

NNTP Commands

The following table summarizes the NNTP Client commands as specified in RFC977, and the NNTP extension commands as specified in Internet-Draft on Common NNTP Extensions. The extended commands make it possible to retrieve news groups with wildcard matching, access article threading information, and protocol commands that are intended specifically to support newsreader applications.

NNTP Client CommandsNNTP Extension Commands
ARTICLEAUTHINFO
GROUPLISTGROUP
LISTLIST OVERVIEW.FMT
NEWSGROUPXHDR
POSTXMOTD
QUITXOVER