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- nntp
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- The 'nntp' commands control the operation of the Network News
- Transfer Protocol (NNTP). The nntp features are defined at
- compile-time. What follows describes the nntp client features;
- the nntp server features are mostly a superset of these commands:
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- nntp addserver <nntpserver_host> <interval> [<range>] [<groups>]
- Add an NNTP news server to query every <interval> seconds for new
- articles in the specified <groups>.
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- <range> specifies the time-of-day limits when the queries will be
- made.
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- Multiple 'nntp addserver' commands may be used to concatenate
- groups (up to a maximum of 512 bytes).
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- Example: nntp add w5ddl.ampr.org 3600 18:00-06:00
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- nntp directory [ <News_spool_dir> [News_control_dir> ]
- Display or set the spool directory for spooling news articles.
- Default is /spool/mail. Optionally set a new control directory.
- The default control dir is /spool/news.
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- nntp directory old=new
- Establish a newsgroup name mapping, so that a newsgroup name
- beginning with <old> is changed to one beginning with <new>,
- which may be a null string. To delete a mapping, use <old>==.
- The mapping scan continues until the list is exhausted, in the
- same order the nntp dir commands were specified.
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- Example: nntp dir rec.radio.=
- nntp dir amateur.=
- nntp dir shortwave=swl
- nntp dir equipment=eq
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- will map rec.radio.amateur.policy to policy, rec.radio.swap
- to swap, rec.radio.shortwave to swl, and
- rec.radio.amateur.equipment to eq.
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- nntp dropserver <nntpserver_host>
- Drop the specified NNTP server.
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- nntp groups <group> [<group> ...] Default: All groups
- Display or set the currently set USEnet newsgroup(s). The group
- names are separated by spaces or commas. The '*' and '!'
- metacharacters (meaning 'all' and 'not' respectively) are
- supported.
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- nntp kick <nntpserver_host>
- Kick the local NNTP client to get in touch with the named server.
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- nntp listservers
- List the currently defined servers.
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- nntp lzw <on | off>
- Turn on or off LZW compression when receiving articles.
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- nntp trace <level> Default: 1
- Sets or shows the current trace level for NNTP traffic.
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- Level
- 0: No tracing.
- 1: Display serious errors only
- 2: Display serious and transient errors
- 3: Display serious and transient errors, plus session progress
- 4: Display serious and transient errors, session progress and
- actual received articles
- 5: Display errors.
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- nntp quiet <yes | no> Default: no
- Sets or shows the current arrival-notification setting for NNTP
- traffic. The notification will include a BEL character if
- "smtp quiet no" is in effect.
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- nntp firstpoll [<#days>] Default: 5
- Sets or shows the number of days of old news that is requested
- in the initial poll to a new server.
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