hi

i'm currently working on an nntp server. it's not finished, but i wanted
to give a heads up incase someone git pulled and wondered what it was.

so far it can read articles, but authenticating an writing them is still
to be done.

Andrew

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On 13 Oct 2022 at 12:39p, apam pondered and said...

hi

i'm currently working on an nntp server. it's not finished, but i wanted to give a heads up incase someone git pulled and wondered what it was.

sweeet....

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Hi apam!

i'm currently working on an nntp server. it's not finished, but i wanted
to give a heads up incase someone git pulled and wondered what it was.

so far it can read articles, but authenticating an writing them is still
to be done.

Nice!

How are MSGID and REPLY kludges translated? (Gatebau?)

Will it support format=flowed?
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3676.html


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How are MSGID and REPLY kludges translated? (Gatebau?)

Will it support format=flowed?
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3676.html

I'm not really up to that yet. Still working on getting the basic reading working. I don't know what Gatebau is, I thought when I look at MSGID and REPLYs I'll see what jamNNTP does.

I will have a look at your format=flowed link tomorrow, again not sure
what that is.

Tonight I added Content-Type header, which I have format=fixed. I guess
it's to do with line wrapping.

Andrew


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apam wrote (2022-10-13):

How are MSGID and REPLY kludges translated? (Gatebau?)

Will it support format=flowed?
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3676.html

I'm not really up to that yet. Still working on getting the basic reading working. I don't know what Gatebau is, I thought when I look at MSGID and REPLYs I'll see what jamNNTP does.

AFAIK JamNNTPd just use the message number from the JAM message base. It doesn't always work reliable, but I'm not sure why (maybe the message number changes after packing the message base?).

Gatebau:
https://fidogate.sourceforge.net/msgid.html
https://fidogate.sourceforge.net/ (References)

I will have a look at your format=flowed link tomorrow, again not sure
what that is.

Tonight I added Content-Type header, which I have format=fixed. I guess it's to do with line wrapping.

Internet mail format is limited to 1000 chars (998 + CRLF) and most mail/news clients wrap lines at <80 chars. In fidonet we use long lines, sometimes longer than 1000 chars. format=flowed is a simple workaround to encode unwrapped long lines in wrapped lines (whitespace before CRLF, like the 2 whitespaces with Markdown). Works great with Thunderbird and Claws Mail.



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