newsgroup

Noob query about relating newsgroup reference id to http location

Hi All, I know this is not much programming related, but I would appreciate if someone could tell me on how to (if possible) a newsgroup reference id to a webpage. Say, If the reference id of the newsgroup message is <b6c92e67-0bbd-4dd1-be22-4357373fd19a@q35g2000vbi.googlegroups.com> How do go to http page containing the pos...

C# application to poll NNTP News Server for new messages

I would like to create an application to check a news server and alert me if there are new email messages. Does anybody have any C# code that can connect to a NNTP news server? Thanks, Paul ...

Does an open source project need a news group?

I open-sourced a tool I created to scratch an itch. From the downloads for the installer on the project page I can see I'm not the only one interested. About 5 people seem to have upgraded from the previous version. But I know next to nothing about them. Do I need a news group? A mailing list? Or how would you start to build a (little) ...

how to get Outlook Express to continue after failing to read a newsgroup message

I use outlook express as a newsreader. Sometimes I want to get the entire server holdings of a particular newsgroup. Trouble is, OE seems to snag when it was able to read a message headr but for some reason it can't retrieve the body. It snags with Outlook Express could not download the requested message. It is likely that the messag...

Now that Microsoft has shutdown newsgroups...

...where does one go for help on boutique topics like TAPI, for instance? ...

What's the best method to download an entire newsgroup archive?

I'm not interested in binaries - I care only about text. I'd like to download several entire newsgroups, as far back in time as I can, and put it into a database for data mining/analysis. Something on the order of several hundred-thousand to a few-million text messages. I'm something of a beginner to newsgroups, especially interacting...