NNTP and POP3 Mini Tutorial!

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June 17th, 2002, 02:58 AM
JRoc

NNTP and POP3 Mini Tutorial!

The Network News Transfer Protocol uses port number 119.

Commands :

list - show newsgroup list
group nwsgrp - show statistics of newsgroup
stat n - show statistics of article and set current article pointer
next - set current article pointer to next article
last - set current article pointer to previous article
article [n] - show header and body of article
head [n] - show header of article
body [n] - show body of article
help - list available commands on server
quit - close connection with server

newgroups date time [<distributions>]
- show new newsgroups

newnews nwsgrps date time [<distribution>]
- show new articles

The POP3 protocol uses port number 110.

Commands :

user name - enter login
pass string - enter password
stat - show statistics of email account
list (n) - list statistics of all messages or message number
top (n) nlines - show header of message number n and n lines of the body
retr n - show header and body of message number n
dele n - delete message number n
rset - unmark deleted messages
quit - close and quit transmission

Very small and ment for newbies!
June 17th, 2002, 08:53 AM
draziw

Once again, not your's...

http://members.ams.chello.nl/hskarsij/telnet/nntp.txt
http://members.ams.chello.nl/hskarsij/telnet/pop3.txt

http://www.astalavista.com/archive/protocols/nntp.txt
http://www.astalavista.com/archive/p.../POP3/pop3.txt

JRoc, not to be overly critical, but what's so difficult about either stating outright "I didn't write these, but I found them 'here'" and posting a link? Or at least try throwing one together of your own - hell, if you were willing to do the work, I'd probably even help you edit it. But repeatedly posting other people's tutorials or references without referencing them is, well... it doesn't really help the site to maintain a positive reputation in my opinion.
June 17th, 2002, 03:34 PM
sargx

they're not *exactly* the same.. just really close. Ok, probably too close.
June 17th, 2002, 03:38 PM
Matty_Cross

Quote:

user name____ - enter login name

Here we have an exact copy of the page.. its just that AO strips unneeded spaces....
so all those _ <which are meant to be spaces but I can't put them in> disappear...

So

Quote:

user name____ - enter login name

Becomes

Quote:

user name - enter login name

So aside from like 3 tiny differences, its almost identical....

Point of interest... although they don't come up in the post.. when I edit it, the mysterious disappearing spaces are still there... *spooky*
June 17th, 2002, 04:30 PM
souleman

Hey matty, why didn't you just do...

Code:

list - Show newsgroup list group nwsgrp - Show statistics of newsgroup

The code tags keep the spaces....
June 17th, 2002, 07:19 PM
JCHostingAdmin

Can someone please help me understand why their is a NMTP protocol to begin with? It is a newsgroup protocol which doesn't specify much. Please help. Thanks!
June 17th, 2002, 10:22 PM
draziw

NNTP - Network News Transfer Protocol

It's the means by which news servers communicate. News a in "store and forward" sort of technology or, rather, means of communication. News servers are configured with a list of news servers that they exchange news with (very basically). They are regularly scheduled to connect to other "peer" news servers and basically offer them any new news that they have since the last time they "talked." After a short negotiation, the servers exchange anything that the other server doesn't have, etc.

It's really a pretty interesting protocol/idea... though it can quickly become complicated. A misconfigured news server can be, well... rather chatty.

(again, one of the old protocols that dates back to the days of uucp and dialup modems - where two servers would call each other to exchange such things as email and news and some people still got billed for every bit of information that was transferred over the modem)
June 17th, 2002, 10:41 PM
blunt23

What's the deal

Hey JRoc thanks for the useful information but you did steal somone else's work which is plagiarism and is a felony in the United States of America The act of plagiarizing is just wrong!
June 17th, 2002, 10:45 PM
Matty_Cross

Quote:

Originally posted here by souleman
Hey matty, why didn't you just do...

Code:

list - Show newsgroup list group nwsgrp - Show statistics of newsgroup

The code tags keep the spaces....

Souleman.... If I did that, it would keep the spaces... I was trying to illustrate how it was a pretty blatant copy and paste... JRoc didn't even change the formatting, AntiOnline did...

/me ponders where the spaces go when they are stripped... They hiding.....