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- Short: NNTP posting client for AS225
- Author: Michael van Elst (mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de)
-
- nntppost is a NNTP (Net News Transfer Protocol) client that sends
- articles to a remote NNTP server. It was written for AS225R2 but seems
- to work fine with AmiTCP and the faked socket.library done by Henning
- Schmiedehausen (also on Aminet).
-
- There are two different method to feed articles into an NNTP news server.
- You can be a NNTP user agent (news reader) that generates new articles,
- the NNTP server will tag the message with a unique message id and transports
- within a distribution area. You can also be a NNTP server yourself that
- relays messages from news readers or other servers. These messages are
- transmitted unchanged. Most NNTP servers restrict server access to a well
- known set of feeds while most hosts in the same organization can originate
- articles as a user agent.
-
- Usage:
-
- > nntpput ?
- ARTICLES/A,AGAINLIST/K,NNTPSERVER/K/A,SLAVE/S,CPS/K/N:
-
- ARTICLES list of article file names (usually a 'togo'-file from a
- C-News database). There is one file name per line, names
- are treated as is, e.g. you either need absolute pathes
- or start nntpput from the spool directory. Lines that
- start with a '#' are ignored.
-
- AGAINLIST a list of article file names of those articles that couldn't
- be transferred. Rejected articles are preceded with a
- comment that shows the numeric NNTP response code. You
- can use this file as an ARTICLES file, but rejected
- articles will probably be rejected again.
-
- NNTPSERVER the name or IP number of your NNTP server machine
-
- SLAVE send data as a slave NNTP server using the IHAVE command.
- Without SLAVE nntpget will use the POST command.
-
- CPS num bandwidth limitation. nntpget tries to keep traffic below
- the given characters per second. This can only be an average
- since there are bursts of at least one TCP segment which
- are under control of the TCP protocol stack.
- The bandwidth is just limited for article transfers and not
- for the initial transfer of article MsgIDs but which is short.
-
- While running nntpput will show you (part of) the NNTP traffic on stdout as well
- as the average transfer rate.
-
- Michael van Elst
-