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NNTP Service
Synchronet Service for the Network News Transfer Protocol (RFC 977)
Example configuration
In ctrl/services.ini:
[NNTP] Port = 119 MaxClients = 10 Options = 0 Command = nntpservice.js -f
Available Command-line options
-d debug output
-f filter bogus client IP addresses
-na no anonymous logins (requires user authentication)
-mail expose entire mail database as newsgroup to Sysops
-auto automatic login based on IP address (no password necessary)
-nolimit unlimited message lengths
-notag do not append tear/tagline to local messages for Q-rest accounts
-ascii convert ex-ASCII to ASCII
Tested clients
Microsoft Outlook Express 6
Netscape Communicator 4.77
Xnews 5.04.25
Mozilla 1.1 (Requires -auto, and a prior login via other method)