Short: NNTP posting client for AS225 Author: Michael van Elst (mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de) Architecture: m68k-amigaos 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