Documentation can be found at http://tcllib.sourceforge.net/doc/nntp.html
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RFC 977 [http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc977.html] governs NNTP.
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The following software packages attempt to use nntp:

 What: knews
 Where: <URL: http://avonlea.kanga.org/tcl/ >
 Description: Proof of concept NNTP server written in itcl.
 Updated: 05/2000
 Contact: <URL: mailto:dacut@kanga.org >

 What: newsflash
 Where: <URL: ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/languages/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/net/newsflash-0.2/newsflash-0.2.tar.gz >
 Description: A NNTP newsreader written using Tcl/Tk.  It has article
        threading, multiple newsrc files, article decoding.  It does
        not yet support killfiles, moderated newsgroup posting, email
        replies, multi-article save/uudecode, searching, or documentation.
        Requires Tcl 7.4/Tk 4.0, BLT 1.7, [incr tcl] 1.5 and
        tcl-dp 3.2.
 Updated: 02/1997
 Contact: <URL: mailto:koert@cais.com > (Koert Zeilstra)

 What: Newsspy
 Where: <URL: ftp://134.93.129.91/pub/newsspy/newsspy-1.0.tgz >
Description: A Tcl program to connect to a NNTP news server and scan
        article headers for special keywords.  If found, read article
        and append to a file.  Can be invoked from cron.
 Contact: <URL: mailto:hofmann@vipmza.physik.uni-mainz.de > (hofmann)

 What: nntp server
 Where: <URL: http://avonlea.kanga.org/tcl/ >
 Description: A proof-of-concept NNTP server (written in Itcl).
 Updated: 06/2000
 Contact: <URL: mailto:dacut@kanga.org >

 What: xnewscan
 Where: From the contact
 Description: xnewscan is a Tk interface to the newscan program, which
        scans an NNTP server using user provided patterns for matching
        articles.  This is now part of the newscan 2.0 release.
 Contact: <URL: mailto:jfm@rahul.net > (John McGowan)

 What: nntp
 Where: <URL: http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/ftparchive/sorted/net/NNTP/0.01/ >
 Description: Tcl only NNTP client library sufficient to create a simple
        news reader.  Minimal testing done to date.
 Updated: 09/1999
 Contact: <URL: mailto:mckay@gmr.com > (Neil D. McKay)


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 Updated: July 2002
 All of the above links are dead, except the one for nntp by Neil D. McKay.

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