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

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Can't get nntp client (nodejs) working

I'm trying to post a message to a group on the usenet using the 'nntp' package for node. I can't get the example to work, the only example that works for me is "Get a list of all newsgroups beginning with 'alt.binaries.'". Code for uploading…
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Making a split volume .rar and deleting the source file

I've got a small problem. I have a folder with a bunch of files. Each of these need to be put into it's own .rar volume that is split into 50MB pieces. The problem is there are a couple of hundred files and I don't have enough disk space for both…
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L&H_Reader news reader? What's this?

A message source shows User-Agent: L&H_Reader What news reader is this?
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Good backend for downloading nzb files to seperate directories

I'm laying out a download management that will segregate each users downloads, separate watched directories each download to their own folders, can't see each others queues, etc. I wanted to use Hellanzb with xml-rpc, however it does not seem to…
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Delphi IdNNTP: download a file from Usenet according to NZB-file

I have a NZB file, something like this: Your File! Example
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What is the best way to determine what articles are available for a given usenet group?

I was wondering what the most efficient way is to get the available articles for a given nntp group. The method I have implemented works as follows: (i) Select the group: GROUP group.name.subname (ii) Get a list of article numbers from the group…
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NNTP command to get count of available newsgroups

Is there an NNTP command to return the count of NewsGroups on an USENET server? (Without having to retrieving the entire list.)
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What protocols are used by Usenet? How easily can it be detected by the ISP?

I am trying to figure out if Usenet can be detected by the ISP? My ISP has put me behind a NAT and probably is monitoring each packet. I want to know if I can usenet. My usenet client has the option to use SSL to fetch articles. So is it un…
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are USENET or NNTP articles loaded in chronological or reverse chronological order?

sample newsrc: thufir@dur:~$ cat .newsrc gwene.com.androidcentral: 1-99999999 gwene.com.blogspot.emacsworld: 1-99999999 gwene.com.blogspot.googlecode: 1-99999999 gwene.com.blogspot.googlereader: 1-99999999 gwene.com.economist:…
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