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<article lang="&language;" id="nntp">
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<title
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>nntp</title>
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<articleinfo>
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<authorgroup>
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<author
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>&Lauri.Watts; &Lauri.Watts.mail;</author>
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<othercredit role="translator"
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><firstname
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>Malcolm</firstname
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><surname
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>Hunter</surname
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><affiliation
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><address
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><email
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>malcolm.hunter@gmx.co.uk</email
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></address
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></affiliation
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><contrib
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>Conversion to British English</contrib
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></othercredit
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>
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</authorgroup>
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</articleinfo>
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<para
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>The nntp kioslave accesses <acronym
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>NNTP</acronym
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> servers directly.</para>
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<para
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>This kioslave can not be used with servers that do not implement the <command
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>GROUP</command
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> command, including some versions of the popular <application
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>INN</application
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> news server which is often used by <acronym
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>ISP</acronym
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>s. It does work with <application
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>leafnode</application
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>, which many people use to keep an offline cache of news articles on their own hard drive or within their <acronym
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>LAN</acronym
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>.</para>
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<para
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>You can use the nntp kioslave by typing <userinput
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>nntp://yourserver/groupname</userinput
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> into the &konqueror; <acronym
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>URL</acronym
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> bar.</para>
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<para
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>If you enter a group name, as above, and the group is available, you will see the messages stored for that group as icons in &konqueror;.</para>
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<para
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>Clicking on a message will display it as plain text, including all headers. This could be useful for debugging a news client to news server connection, for example, to ensure that your new <application
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>leafnode</application
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> server is working correctly.</para>
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<para
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>If you don't enter a group name, and only the server name, you will see a list of available groups. </para>
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<para
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>Please be aware that this could take an enormous amount of time, and will cause a lot of network traffic. Some commercial usenet servers have 60,000 or more groups available, and doing such a thing may cause your desktop to freeze.</para
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>
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</article>
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