News server(NNTP library) and Python

Lad

I have a program that can send posts to a news server.The problem is
that I must find a free usenet(news) server that allows posting, which
is not easy. For this reason I would like to make a modification in my
program so that the program can act in a similar way how real news
server, that is to spread the new posts to another news server. But I
do not have much knowledge about the way how news server chooses
another news server to send it's new posting.
Can anybody give me a hint( idea)?
Thanks
Lad

Jul 18 '05 #1

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Duncan Booth

ex****@hope.cz (Lad) wrote in
news:81******** *************** **@posting.goog le.com:

I have a program that can send posts to a news server.The problem is
that I must find a free usenet(news) server that allows posting, which
is not easy. For this reason I would like to make a modification in my
program so that the program can act in a similar way how real news
server, that is to spread the new posts to another news server. But I
do not have much knowledge about the way how news server chooses
another news server to send it's new posting.
Can anybody give me a hint( idea)?

If you are running on Windows and just want a news server for testing, get
hold of a copy of Hamster (http://tglsoft.de/), this will act as both news
server and news client and lets you set up your own local newsgroups.

If you meant that you actually want a free news server to post to real
newsgroups, then sign up with news.individual .net. You have to agree to
some reasonable terms and conditions, but it is free.

Real news-servers transfer news between each other by having a list of
servers to which they will forward news they have received, so to run a
real news server you need a peering agreement with an existing server, and
you aren't going to get that. What you can do though is to write a program
which works in the same sort of way as Hamster: i.e. it acts as a client to
one or more upstream news-servers while also acting as a server. This isn't
suitable for running a full news feed but works well when you have
comparatively few newsgroups.

Jul 18 '05 #2

Lad

Duncan Booth <du**********@i nvalid.invalid> wrote in message news:<Xn******* *************** ****@127.0.0.1> ...

ex****@hope.cz (Lad) wrote in
news:81******** *************** **@posting.goog le.com:
I have a program that can send posts to a news server.The problem is
that I must find a free usenet(news) server that allows posting, which
is not easy. For this reason I would like to make a modification in my
program so that the program can act in a similar way how real news
server, that is to spread the new posts to another news server. But I
do not have much knowledge about the way how news server chooses
another news server to send it's new posting.
Can anybody give me a hint( idea)?

If you are running on Windows and just want a news server for testing, get
hold of a copy of Hamster (http://tglsoft.de/), this will act as both news
server and news client and lets you set up your own local newsgroups.

If you meant that you actually want a free news server to post to real
newsgroups, then sign up with news.individual .net. You have to agree to
some reasonable terms and conditions, but it is free.

Real news-servers transfer news between each other by having a list of
servers to which they will forward news they have received, so to run a
real news server you need a peering agreement with an existing server, and
you aren't going to get that. What you can do though is to write a program
which works in the same sort of way as Hamster: i.e. it acts as a client to
one or more upstream news-servers while also acting as a server. This isn't
suitable for running a full news feed but works well when you have
comparatively few newsgroups.

Thanks a lot for the explanation
Lad

Jul 18 '05 #3

Christopher T King

On 17 Aug 2004, Duncan Booth wrote:

If you meant that you actually want a free news server to post to real
newsgroups, then sign up with news.individual .net. You have to agree to
some reasonable terms and conditions, but it is free.

Also check to see if your ISP provides one; for example, my ISP, Charter,
provides a news server at news.charter.ne t (though it is not available to
non-subscribers, of course).

Jul 18 '05 #4

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