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From: cwitty@csli.Stanford.EDU (Carl Witty)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: Re: Interfacing WP, AMDS with other mailers
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Date: 2 Aug 90 21:21:17 GMT
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In-reply-to: nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM's message of 2 Aug 90 11:53:18 GMT

In article <Mai1Eim0M2YtA49Wwd@thumper.bellcore.com> nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein) writes:
   Excerpts from internet.info-andrew: 2-Aug-90 Interfacing WP, AMDS with
   o.. Carl Witty@eos.arc.nasa. (1262)

   > Also, it would be nice to keep our news tree in AMS format, for
   > people who do use the Andrew mailers.  Most newsreaders nowadays
   > use NNTP, so we could support those newsreaders by writing an
   > NNTP daemon.

   > Has anybody written either of these programs?  Any suggestions or
   > comments?

   This program is called "nntppoll" and is included in the Andrew
   distribution.

As far as I can tell, nntppoll is an NNTP client that talks to an NNTP
server and pulls across all the news that's newer than a given date,
and is used to keep a news tree in AMS format.  That's not the
question I asked.

I want an NNTP *server*, that runs on an AFS machine with the news
tree under AFS, which would accept connections from arbitrary NNTP
clients (rrn, Gnews, GNUS, nn, etc.)

Thanks for your help,

Carl Witty