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Usenet is a distributed communications system on the internet related to news and discussion.

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Is NNTP dead / NNTP successor?

If its dead, is there a successor? For those who didn't know: The Network News Transfer Protocol or NNTP is an Internet application protocol used primarily for reading and posting Usenet articles (aka netnews), as well as transferring news among…
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How to search usenet for programming questions?

I've been using usenet searches since about 1995 to get programming information, mostly for microsoft APIs. First searching via dejanews, and now google "groups" which bought out dejanews. Over the last few years I've noticed a steady decline in the…
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NNTP usenet download messages

I would like to download usenet messages to my personal Mysql database, so without using any newsreader. At the moment i'm using IpWorks component for .NET . I've created a simple app in Vb.Net, It works, but it's realy slow... to download and to…
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Best nntp to web gateway?

My company uses usenet groups on an internal nntp server and I would like to add a web server to this that would allow the usual browsing and searching but in addition provide an archive of old messages that may have expired on the server. This is…
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NNTP server implementation

I'm trying to implement nntp server. But looks like I have a problem with multi line response. When I sent response client close connection. I'm using Thunderbird and SeaMonkey as clients. I heed help to understand what wrong with my response.…
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Mailman mail list nntp support

Using mailing list provide by mailman was a little bit ... user unfriendly so I try to find how can I get some nntp endpoint from a mailman mailing list in two different cases : Case #1 : I got access to the mailman server configuration and can…
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Complex searches with bash

I recently started running a text-only usenet server. The way that I have storage working is that each news article (post) is in the following kind of direction. /var/spool/news/articles/alt/i/love/cat/1 2 3 The numbers are the individual articles.…
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node-nntp get article fails

I've been trying the node-nntp examples. Although the following example works for misc.test, when trying other groups the article function fails to fetch the first article when no message id or article number is passed in. I discovered that it does…
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Turning off adaptive scoring selectively

I would like to - Turn off adaptive scoring for one usenet group or even better - Turn off adaptive scoring for one sender in one newsgroup How to do it?
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Per newsgroup timezone in Date: header

How to configure emacs/gnus to use per newsgroup time zone in posted messages? I would like to use CET time zone in pl.* newsgroups and UCT in general newsgroups.
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gnu.mail.providers.nntp newsrc

Referencing the API docs for gnu.mail.providers.nntp, I'm trying to generate a list of folders on localhost nntp where I run leafnode. However, it seems that ${user.home}/.newsrc isn't loading correctly because I'm getting a zero length array…
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How the number of connections of a usenet provider change something?

At work, we are speaking about the interest to have 10 or 30 connections simultanly to a usenet provider. Some guys said it change nothing because the 10 or 30 threads will take all the bandwidth available, so the download time will be the…
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Download nzb content python3

I have uploaded some files to usenet using ngpost. Now, Im having troubles to download that files, I know that sabnzb or nzbget could do the job, but I want to make a downloader "from scratch" just to learn. from pynzb import nzb_parser file_nzb =…
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Docker failed to bind to $PORT within 60 seconds of launch – HEROKU ERROR

I am trying to deploy a Dockerfile from dockerhub on heroku using github workflow but I am getting error Failed to bind to $PORT within 60 seconds of launch – HEROKU ERROR. Below is my Dockerfile. FROM…
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Posting large files to usenet using Python & nntplib: How are large files split?

I'm intrigued by uBackup, using Usenet for backing up large files. I thought it would be a good idea to use python for this, but I'm having problems understanding the correct protocol for posting large files. I know you need to compress your files…
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