I've put together a quick and dirty implementation allowing NNTP write access in addition to the existing read enigma supports. So far, I've only done some very basic testing with Thunderbird.

You can check out the WIP branch here: https://github.com/NuSkooler/enigma-bbs/pull/451

Question: What are some popular clients people use for BBS's for this sort of thing? I'm not even sure what all systems allow such access TBH. I know of JAMNNTPd as server <> JAM which I may look over a tad for any BBS-specific 'X-whatever' "kludges" in the headers... anything else I should be aware of?

After some more testing I'll put this up on Xibalba for people to play with.



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Re: NNTP Write Access
By: NuSkooler to All on Thu Sep 22 2022 21:42:19

Question: What are some popular clients people use for BBS's for this sort of thing? I'm not even sure what all systems
allow such access TBH. I know of JAMNNTPd as server <> JAM which I may look over a tad for any BBS-specific 'X-whatever'
"kludges" in the headers... anything else I should be aware of?

min and leafnode are ones for *nix based machines, i personally use thunderbird (or my bbs LOL) although i am a bit disappointed that eternity doesnt carry "alt.ensign.wesley.die.die.die" LOL

synchronet has a built in news importer. I havent tested writing to usenet though however.

hope this helps

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On Friday, September 23rd Charles Blackburn said...

min and leafnode are ones for *nix based machines, i personally use thunderbird (or my bbs LOL) although i am a bit disappointed that eternity doesnt carry "alt.ensign.wesley.die.die.die" LOL

lol! I do miss groups like that

I'll see if I can snag those two clients. I did find "Pan" which helped me work through a couple issues.

thanks for the tips!


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Re: RE: NNTP Write Access
By: NuSkooler to Charles Blackburn on Fri Sep 23 2022 09:15:10

On Friday, September 23rd Charles Blackburn said...

min and leafnode are ones for *nix based machines, i personally use thunderbird (or my bbs LOL) although i am a bit
disappointed that eternity doesnt carry "alt.ensign.wesley.die.die.die" LOL

lol! I do miss groups like that

yea i know.. there was a whole bunch of them i loved.

I'll see if I can snag those two clients. I did find "Pan" which helped me work through a couple issues.

they should be in the standard package manager... but come to think about it. I think leafnode is actually an nntp server as opposed to a client..

here's the list from my ubuntu install i have at hand (the bbs one :D)

brag - Downloads and assembles multipart Usenet binaries

ifgate - Internet to Fidonet gateway

jamnntpd - NNTP Server allowing newsreaders to access a JAM messagebase

nn - Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)

slrn - threaded text-mode news reader

slrnface - shows X-Faces from a newsposting on an X11 terminal emulator

tin - Full-screen easy to use Usenet newsreader

sabnzbdplus - web-based binary newsreader with nzb support

trn4 - Threaded USENET news reader, based on rn (4.0 beta test)



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Charles Blackburn
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On Friday, September 23rd Charles Blackburn muttered...

here's the list from my ubuntu install i have at hand (the bbs one :D) brag - Downloads and assembles multipart Usenet binaries
ifgate - Internet to Fidonet gateway
jamnntpd - NNTP Server allowing newsreaders to access a JAM messagebase
nn - Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
slrn - threaded text-mode news reader
...

This is exactly what I'm looking for, thank you!




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NuSkooler wrote (2022-09-22):

I've put together a quick and dirty implementation allowing NNTP write access in addition to the existing read enigma supports.

Question: What are some popular clients people use for BBS's for this
sort of thing?

I have no idea how popular it is, but I use Claws Mail with JamNNTPd. One nice feature is support for "format=flowed".
See https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3676

I know of JAMNNTPd as server <> JAM which I may look over a tad for any BBS-specific 'X-whatever' "kludges" in the headers... anything else I should be aware of?

The Gatebau '94 / '97 standard, especially for MSGID and REPLY kludge translation.

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Twas Monday, September 26th when Oli said...

I have no idea how popular it is, but I use Claws Mail with JamNNTPd. One nice feature is support for "format=flowed". See https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3676
The Gatebau '94 / '97 standard, especially for MSGID and REPLY kludge translation.

Sweet, I will check all of this out, thank you!


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