References about NNTP from JAM2NNTP x1) Tool documentation:
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JamNNTPd 1.0, by Johan Billing, (billing@df.lth.se)
6.1 The NNTP protocol
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JamNNTPd supports most of the basic NNTP protocol as specified in
RFC-977.
The commands IHAVE, NEWGROUPS and NEWNEWS are not implemented, but at least
give valid response codes if a newsreader tries to use them. JamNNTPd also
supports the XOVER and AUTHINFO commands as specified in
RFC-2980. XOVER
never sends information about the line counts and byte counts of messages.
6.2 Format of news messages
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JamNNTPd probably breaks the
RFC-1036 specification on some minor points,
but seems to work well enough with most newsreaders.
6.5 format=flowed
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A recent extension to MIME (
RFC-2646
) specifies a format for "flowed" text, ...
Another NNTP reference list:
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Und noch eine Schnell- und Gesamtübersicht mit erklärender Beschreibung:
© 2003-2004, Daniel Bolege,
http://www.bolege.de/
http://www.bolege.de/nntp/ NNTP Aufbau und Funktion
http://www.bolege.de/nntp-header/ NNTP-Header
http://www.bolege.de/nntp-befehle/ NNTP-Befehle & Response Codes
NNTP Aufbau und Funktion (Einstieg) (local copy)
