<article lang="&language;" id="nntp"> <title >nntp</title> <articleinfo> <authorgroup> <author >&Lauri.Watts; &Lauri.Watts.mail;</author> <othercredit role="translator" ><firstname >Malcolm</firstname ><surname >Hunter</surname ><affiliation ><address ><email >malcolm.hunter@gmx.co.uk</email ></address ></affiliation ><contrib >Conversion to British English</contrib ></othercredit > </authorgroup> </articleinfo> <para >The nntp tdeioslave accesses <acronym >NNTP</acronym > servers directly.</para> <para >This tdeioslave can not be used with servers that do not implement the <command >GROUP</command > command, including some versions of the popular <application >INN</application > news server which is often used by <acronym >ISP</acronym >s. It does work with <application >leafnode</application >, which many people use to keep an offline cache of news articles on their own hard drive or within their <acronym >LAN</acronym >.</para> <para >You can use the nntp tdeioslave by typing <userinput >nntp://yourserver/groupname</userinput > into the &konqueror; <acronym >URL</acronym > bar.</para> <para >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> <para >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 >leafnode</application > server is working correctly.</para> <para >If you don't enter a group name, and only the server name, you will see a list of available groups. </para> <para >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 > </article>