usenet

Best language communities

Often, a language won't have its own community, or the "official" community isn't the most popular one. For all the languages you use, what is your favorite place to visit (besides SO!) for help - or just plain discussion/complaints? EDIT: Just based on the answers I've seen so far, there appear to be plenty of reference sites too. I do...

Is NNTP dead?

If its dead, is there a successor? For those who didn't know: The Network News Transfer Protocol or NNTP is an Internet application protocol used primarily for reading and posting Usenet articles (aka netnews), as well as transferring news among news servers. ...

How to search usenet for programming questions?

I've been using usenet searches since about 1995 to get programming information, mostly for microsoft APIs. First searching via dejanews, and now google "groups" which bought out dejanews. Over the last few years I've noticed a steady decline in the quantity of search results for usenet from google, and today I find I'm completely unable...

Best nntp to web gateway?

My company uses usenet groups on an internal nntp server and I would like to add a web server to this that would allow the usual browsing and searching but in addition provide an archive of old messages that may have expired on the server. This is mainly for searching the archives so ability to post is not important. Can anyone recommen...

NNTP command to get count of available newsgroups

Is there an NNTP command to return the count of NewsGroups on an USENET server? (Without having to retrieving the entire list.) ...

Resources for creating a Binary Usenet client

I am interested in creating a Binary Usenet client as a personal endeavor. My initial plans are to write it in Mono - but I haven't started anything yet. I am familiar with C# but not the NNTP protocol. Where can I start? What are some reference materials to get me going? ...

Good backend for downloading nzb files to seperate directories

I'm laying out a download management that will segregate each users downloads, separate watched directories each download to their own folders, can't see each others queues, etc. I wanted to use Hellanzb with xml-rpc, however it does not seem to allow me to set separate download directories for each file. I want to avoid trying to gues...

L&H_Reader news reader? What's this?

A message source shows User-Agent: L&H_Reader What news reader is this? ...

NNTP usenet download messages

I would like to download usenet messages to my personal Mysql database, so without using any newsreader. At the moment i'm using IpWorks component for .NET . I've created a simple app in Vb.Net, It works, but it's realy slow... to download and to do the INSERT INTO . Anyone know some better method to "massive" download message and inser...