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Write a News server.

Hi all.

I'm a little fed up with having to run Outlook Express on all my clients for
News, Outlook just doesn't cut it either!

I want to write a server based app that will conect and sync, then write a
client that will connect to the central database.

Can anyone give me a starting point?

Cheers,
Tull.
Oct 26 '06 #1
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In article <Mq******************************@bt.com>,
tu**@idcodeware.co.uk says...
Hi all.

I'm a little fed up with having to run Outlook Express on all my clients for
News, Outlook just doesn't cut it either!

I want to write a server based app that will conect and sync, then write a
client that will connect to the central database.

Can anyone give me a starting point?
First, you'll be using NNTP - Network News Transfer Protocol. Start
googling for NNTP and .NET (there's many free and commercial NNTP
libraries out there).

You should also familiarize yourself with the NNTP protocol
(http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc977.html)

--
Patrick Steele
http://weblogs.asp.net/psteele
Oct 26 '06 #2
Many thanks, I'll get started!

Cheers,
Tull.

"Patrick Steele" <pa*****@mvps.orgwrote in message
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In article <Mq******************************@bt.com>,
tu**@idcodeware.co.uk says...
>Hi all.

I'm a little fed up with having to run Outlook Express on all my clients
for
News, Outlook just doesn't cut it either!

I want to write a server based app that will conect and sync, then write
a
client that will connect to the central database.

Can anyone give me a starting point?

First, you'll be using NNTP - Network News Transfer Protocol. Start
googling for NNTP and .NET (there's many free and commercial NNTP
libraries out there).

You should also familiarize yourself with the NNTP protocol
(http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc977.html)

--
Patrick Steele
http://weblogs.asp.net/psteele

Oct 26 '06 #3

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